FIVE more days and many wonderful seasonal residents and property owners who pay taxes and amenity fees year 'round and enjoy being here in high season will go home and take their guests. Less feet. Easier on greens. YES.

Reduced traffic is not going to fix these greens. They are worse than any previous years and the traffic volume is consistent with last year. Course maintenance is the issue.

I paid $15 for my guest the other day at Okeechobee And, of course, my granddaughter rode with me in my cart. BTW, she plays on her HS team and beat me by a stroke from the gold tees. Her only comment was that the greens were difficult and hard. A number of shots hit the green and rolled to the back or off. The traps looked like a gorilla had walked through a couple of them and I fixed several ball marks that were not mine.

I keep hearing “tee times are hard to get” but I just don’t find it to be a big problem. :ho:

Just waiting for July.

If price and availability is your only criteria of what constitutes "good" golf conditions, then feel free to play in my driveway for just $2. No golf cart needed.

If you want a well-maintained golf course - even if it's not pristine, then you SHOULD be able to get it, since that's supposedly what some of your amenity fees are paying for.

The difficulty of getting tee times is a function of how many are in the group, the average number of points, the number of candidate courses, and the time window. If you are a foursome with zero points you can probably play any course when you want to. If you are a group of 32 with an average of 3 points then you will probably only be able to get the northern courses or the 4 courses south of Route 44 if you want to play in the morning.

KEEP RAINING................great medicine for the courses.

That's the biggest problem that everyone's missing. Too bad the courses aren't getting enough water from all the tears.
Steve

Easy now...…………………………..

I would be in favor of closing two per month and let them rest & repair. 12 months of play is tough on them.


Up North, courses got winter rest.

There’s not enough rain in the world to help these courses with this management.very sad to say

Do you have a plan to offer? What are they doing wrong that you could do differently and have you tried to approach Management? I would be interesting to hear your ideas and I suspect others too. Thanks

In my experience it is not ball marks causing the problem, it is large grassless spots in the greens, incompetent and poorly timed aeration, mindless operation of equipment damaging the greens, and lack of grass care. On one course I saw three greens damaged by leaking fluid... you have to wonder if the operator was half asleep... pure amateurism. I agree they are on the way to busting the bubble. In general the greens north of 466 seem to be in better shape than those to the south... have no idea why

Moving South with less traffic?? Please share where that may be. Others may want to follow....

I think he meant "foot traffic" on the Golf courses.