[nitehawk]

Originally Posted by Grill Meister

We have a group that plays the championship courses and we have found the courses throughout TV to be in other than championship condition. The greens have little grass, the fairways are not so hot and the tee boxes are all chopped up. We have come to the conclusion that GMS (Golf Management Systems, which is in charge of the condition of all the courses) is not only contracting with the lowest bidder to take care of the courses, but is hiring landscapers and not greens keepers. You will hear them offer as an excuse that the conditions are due to excessive play....that's a bunch of hooey. We have elected to eschew TV courses and play "outside campus" and what a good decision. We played Mission Inn, Howey in The Hills, and man, oh man, what a difference. The greens were immaculate, the fairways where in great shape, rolling hills, rolling greens....it is what a real golf course is supposed to look like. It's a challenging course and I just loved it. I won't tell you my score, but I got two birdies and an eagle.

Before that we played Black Bear, and again, what a contrast to TV courses. Beautiful greens, lush fairways, kempt tee boxes, rolling fairways.

If you really love golf and really enjoy playing great courses.....dump The Village's courses. Go off campus.....there really are good golf courses outside and they are very reasonable priced.....certainly competitive with the greens fees here.

I total agree--- I have and will continue to post reviews of TV courses as below par and overpriced. I love golf and will drive to play a decent course with good conditions and use their cart. If the conditions improve (been here for 9 years and only gotten worse) and TV stops advertising itself as a golf community, will i stop giving bad reviews. You must hit them in their pocketbook -- complaints to management seem to do nothing - but maybe social media may do something, I have given up drinking kool-aid ---farmer on the west side of rt 301 will let you play his cow pasture for $4 - golf cart accessible