[John Mayes]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You are not MEMBERS of the Country Club. That makes you a "resident guest" and you pay "Resident Guest" fees. If you were a member of the Country Club (which is an additional fee, since the Country Clubs are -not- amenities), you would've paid less.

Village residents pay the “resident member” amount not the “resident guest” amount. Resident guest is someone that lives outside the tri-county area that is a guest of a villager.

https://www.golfthevillages.com/what...r2024Rates.pdf

[justjim]

Originally Posted by Tamerack

I wonder if anyone has played the course at Royal Highlands in Leesburg and if so what are comparisons???

I’ve played the Monarch @ Royal Highlands several times. The course is on US 27 about six miles south of Leesburg. I like the course and it’s always been in excellent condition. It’s challenging but relative short (6010 yards black tees and 5520 white tees and 4800 forward tees) Just right for an aging senior! As I remember, with cart, $45 in season and half price in summer. It’s been two years since playing so prices can change.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by John Mayes

Village residents pay the “resident member” amount not the “resident guest” amount. Resident guest is someone that lives outside the tri-county area that is a guest of a villager.

https://www.golfthevillages.com/what...r2024Rates.pdf

I don’t understand why this is so difficult to understand? Maybe for someone that doesn’t golf?
To add…..no one is a country club member.

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

He doesn't have CC Priority Membership. He paid the "Resident Guest" fee.

There’s “Enhancement Member” and “Resident Member”.
If you have a green ID card, you are one of those two.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Popsicle headache

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by TomSpasm

A fellow Villager and I went to Shallow Creek today at 10:30 to play 18. He lives near Lopez ,I live near LSL (21 and 16 miles away), so we drove in a car. We paid $120 for the golf then asked where to pick up a cart. Was told a cart would be another $30. So $75 apiece...shocking!

Originally Posted by TomSpasm

We are Village residents, not guests.

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Then you overpaid.
Resident Member is $54 at shallow creek and 51.50 at most other courses.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

He doesn't have CC Priority Membership. He paid the "Resident Guest" fee.

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

There’s “Enhancement Member” and “Resident Member”.
If you have a green ID card, you are one of those two.

So - I was incorrect about the terminology. I was also incorrect about which fee he was charged. He and his friend were charged the "Enhancement Guest/Middletown Member" fee of $59.00 each (which comes to $118 total, round up to the $120 he claims they paid), plus the golf cart fee.

Why was he charged that? No idea. It was up to the OP to check. It was his responsibility to speak up and say "Hey - I am being overcharged, I'm a Villages Resident, this is my ID, and I should've been charged $54.50 as a "Resident Member" instead of the $59.00.

He might have done that and just not mentioned it in this thread. Or he might have not done that.

Regardless, he was not charged as a Resident Member.

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by UpNorth

$30 for a cart? Folks in The Villages think it is a great idea to play the "Championship" courses in their own cart. Makes all the green fees overpriced by $30. Developers laugh all the way to the bank.

Guess it's just illustrative of the old "all the traffic will bare ?" The only time things (might ?) change is if the "traffic" slows so drastically that it hits the old profit bottom line; then (perhaps) the prices will drop to increase the customer base ?

[Rainger99]

There are five different prices for every course.

EM = Enhancement Member
RM = Resident Member
EG/MM = Enhancement Guest / Middleton Member
RG = Resident Guest
NR = Non-Resident

The price for Shallow Creek is

EM = Enhancement Member $44.50
RM = Resident Member $54.50
EG/MM = Enhancement Guest / Middleton Member $59.00
RG = Resident Guest $65.50
NR = Non-Resident $68.50

The prices do not include sales tax.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

There are five different prices for every course.

EM = Enhancement Member
RM = Resident Member
EG/MM = Enhancement Guest / Middleton Member
RG = Resident Guest
NR = Non-Resident

The price for Shallow Creek is

EM = Enhancement Member $44.50
RM = Resident Member $54.50
EG/MM = Enhancement Guest / Middleton Member $59.00
RG = Resident Guest $65.50
NR = Non-Resident $68.50

The prices do not include sales tax.

Once again, I implore you---stop confusing people with the facts

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by paulajr

You chose to not take your own cart…and didn’t do your due diligence before going. Why post here? The rates are clearly published on golfthevillages.

Because the OP wants to show everyone what an idiot he is for not checking prices out before going.

If he doesn’t want to play there anymore, who cares besides him and the other whiners. It’ll just open spots for us that like playing there.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by TomSpasm

When I went to Southern Oaks when it first opened, they provided carts for free if you had a Villages ID. I don't know if/when they stopped that, but it was my presumption that as a Villager, I would not pay for a cart. Silly me!

It was free for residents that lived north of 44 due to the inability to get across 44 with a cart at the time.

[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

$60 for a slow season mid summer rate is very high, especially without paying for a cart. Golfers at Shallow Creek and Southern Oaks are getting gouged because of supply and demand in the southern area. I can drive my golf cart about 3 minutes from our home and play 18 holes after 3 PM at Tierra Del Sol for $22 this time of the year. And the layout at Tierra blows away either of those two courses.

You are comparing the evening rate at Tierra Del Sol to the morning rate at Shallow creek. The evening rate at SC is $25 ($3 higher).

So much for being gouged.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan

Because the OP wants to show everyone what an idiot he is for not checking prices out before going.

If he doesn’t want to play there anymore, who cares besides him and the other whiners. It’ll just open spots for us that like playing there.

You should apologize to the OP for calling him an idiot.

It was wrong of you to point it out

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

So the phrase "I /guess/" just kinda slipped past you didn't it?

I didn't "determine" anything. I guessed.

None of my friends play golf.

I GUESSED that this might be the reason why rental fees are high here.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

So - I was incorrect about the terminology.

I was also incorrect about which fee he was charged.

Why was he charged that? No idea. I


He might have done that and just not mentioned it in this thread. Or he might have not done that.

I guess there are sometimes a lot of facts to sort through.

[westernrider75]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

So the phrase "I /guess/" just kinda slipped past you didn't it?

I didn't "determine" anything. I guessed. Words have meanings.

And no I didn't guess based on a friend or two. None of my friends play golf. My neighbors all have their own golf carts and I live in walking distance to the nearest country club. I see the CC rental carts come down here, I've seen a few of them at Spanish Springs in the parking lots. I've seen people drive them off the CC course at Mallory Hill and drive up Odell, I saw one on the MMP near Brownwood. I've seen golfers using the rental carts to drive to the pool, from the course at Lopez, and park their golf cart there while they have pool-side lunch. That holds up that cart, making it unavailable for the cart guys to clean (and gas up, if necessary) for the next renter.

Considering that I see at least one every week somewhere OTHER than the country club golf course - I GUESSED that this might be the reason why rental fees are high here.

It’s possible some of those carts you are seeing, and assuming are from the golf course, are actually loaners or rentals from Villages Golf Cars. They look identical.