There is no way a threesome will get a teetime if they are NOT Priority members. Believe it...that is why we pay for our memberships! Don't forget that a group of 9 people that regularly play together occupies 3 tee times. The number playing in that group changes weekly. One Non priority member in a group request will knock out the whole group. It doesn't matter how early you make your request. They all go in the system at Midnight of the day it comes out. It is a point system..not first come first served.

When the championship courses stopped using all 3 courses with waves nearly half the tee times were cut out. Mallory was totally closed cutting out a lot more tee times. Some courses increased the time between tee times to allow for the staging of carts into time slots in parking lots. It is pretty easy to understand the problem in getting tee times.

For those who may not know , priority membership is NOT considered when requesting a tee time on executive golf courses......

It's because golf is one of the only things that stayed open during the shutdown, so every Tom, Dick, Harry and Mary decided to play golf. I watch them from my house on an executive course and you can tell many of them never held a golf club, but it's free if you waldk

Happens all of the time. If you play a lot of golf that your request is put at the bottom of the list of tee times. It is the only fair way to do it. Otherwise there are golf tee time hogs that will put in as much as they can and the rest of us who also pay ammenities have to sit out. Not fair.

On exec courses that's basically how it works, the less reservation and cancellation points get first crack.
On champ courses, the priority points count first, the amount you have played is only a tie breaker.

A couple of things regarding this. The largest impact was probably due to ending the T-times at 4pm - less available T-times. 2nd many snowbirds from virus hard hit states like NY, NY and Michigan are staying longer. I think with the T-Times opening up this week, we should see more available options.....

And third, the championship courses closed one of their 9 hole courses so I’m sure all those “unavailable” tee times translates to those folks gravitating to the executives......

Too Many People
 

The other possible reasons for tee times being unavailable make sense, but another factor is the dramatic increase in Villagers. The Morse family does not appear to care that unlimited building will cause quality of life issues. The number of new courses has not kept pace with the population increase.

And they will probably tell you that golf is not as popular to the new wave of young folks coming to TV. A good excuse for slapping up new houses rather than golf holes on all that available land.

Seems none of the snow birds went home. In there defense, why would they. They would have to quarantine for 2 weeks. Weather still not great. Let’s just hope it’s not a habit

There must be a software issue. I went in on Wed. morning to look for an open tee time for two on any championship course. Every course had one slot available for every morning tee time up until approximately 1PM. There’s no way that all those tee times that could accommodate one single were filled by threesomes.

No software issues ......at the moment, getting tee times is tough for all of the reasons stated in the 7 pages of posts ......

Here is a suggestion...... tee time requests process at midnight..... get up at about 12:30 am and log on to the system and look at the open tee times that might suit you. Book it and you’ll be all set .

You can always all the tee times office to verify that there is no software abnormalities......

This week getting a championship teetime was even less easy than last week. For our foursome of non-priority members I requested Palmer, Glenview, Cane Garden, Mallory and Havana from 11:56 to 1:30 for Friday. I entered the request six days in advance. We got nothing for Friday. On Tuesday when I saw we had nothing I quickly put in a request for Saturday. The week before I got a reservation for Saturday when I had to do that. This time, nothing for Saturday either and unlike the week before, teetimes are up to 5pm and beyond.

Finally I went on the open times and grabbed 10:56 at Glenview, I think one reason that was available is I believe prices go down at 11:00, without the waves I can't tell, so we will have to pay $42 instead $36. The only option was Lopez at 1:52, but that meant not finishing until about 6pm and our member who lives in LaBelle probably wouldn't get home until after 7pm.

They are only using 18 of 27 holes on the 10 championship courses. It does make check in safer

The tee time system is not first come, first served.

Looked just now 4:30 Friday.....quit counting open 4some tee times at 50 for Sunday. Doesn't look that difficult. Or am I missing something?
Plenty of 4somes on exec's as well...……...

I hope it is a habit...they pay for a full year , why not enjoy it !

The renters don’t !!! And there’s plenty of them !!!!$

Renters and snowbirds , please go home !!!! :)

They'll be gone once the temperature hits the mid 90s, will be to hot in the kitchen for them...
Oops, I used the word KITCHEN, hope the pickleballers don't get to excited.... :)

LOL !!! I hope you are right !!!! :)

4:30 Friday, so that's a good teetime? I'm not into night golf, getting done 8:30 to 9:00, when's dinner 10:00? You're missing that some people want to play in daylight hours and finish about 4:00 to 5:30 in the evening. Then you go home, shower, have dinner, and still have somewhat of a Friday night.

I stated in my original post, we requested 11:56 to 1:30, that's the time we requested for the past 9 years and have gotten a time every Friday. Now they've even extended the hours beyond 4pm and it's still booked up, it's probably until the snowbirds go home, the third nines reopen probably in June or so before these teetime problems go away. We did get a time, Saturday at 10:56 at Glenview. Executives, I don't wait all week to play 90 minutes of golf with my irons, that good practice or warm up, but it's not golf.

Tee times are quite tight this year. Seasonal residents staying longer is only a small issue, after all they are here during the winter and the days are shorter then, but it has never been this tight. Main reason is the loss of tee times with no waves and only 18 holes open.
Next, lack of other recreational opportunities are driving people to golf. People who are essentially non-golfers are flooding the exec courses, which drives some regular exec players to the championship courses
In your case, the problem is compounded by having 4 non-priority members, which puts you at the bottom of the request list. It doesn't matter if you put the request in 7 days or 3 days ahead, they are all assigned at the same time in order of priority points.
Rumor, (repeat rumor), has it that they are going back to all 3 nines open and waves on May 18. That will solve most of the problem

Golf expansion south of 44
 

Thank you for your response. I am aware of the 5 executive courses and the pitch and putt course. However there are no championship courses. There is one on the map in Southern Oaks, but the projection is that with planned and approved new house construction, south of 44, will double the population of the Villages.
This post started as a discussion of availability of tee times on executive courses. All tee times on the 5 Exec courses discussed are full as well (at least up to 4:30).

Golf expansion
 

Sorry, I didn't realize that the number of posts had anything to do with an opinion on the need for additional golf courses.
To answer your question, I have experience in planning for parks and recreation on a state and county level. The Villages is a math issue. The last champ course built was 2014 and the population was approx 112000, the population in 2018 was 122000 and projected growth of 65,000 new homes which will double the population. A new golf course takes 18 to 24 months and right now there is only one champ being built and no Exec courses. There is a lot more analysis such as percentage of snowbirds, percentage of the population that golfs and present versus future capacity.

More than a rumor. :coolsmiley:

What I was trying to say (obviously not clearly) I was looking at open tee times at 4:30 on Friday. What I found was a lot of available tee times, on Sunday, all day.

OK, since Friday is our normal play day, then I have check with the guys to see if Saturday is OK, then if Saturday is not good, then check again for Sunday. It messes up the program when you have change days. Fortunately I was able to get the 10:56 time on Saturday when I went to open times, as it turns out I had to skip today because I've come down with a cold, but the three guys are out at Glenview right now.

You will need to enter requests with a liberal start time. If you have 3.00 points, you can forget getting a tee time.

Maybe because Sunday (today) is Mother's Day.

:ho:

Whats clear is that the housing supply and new residents is exceeding the available golf times. Supply and demand....

Tee times
 

Tee times now are hard to get before 4:00 but sometimes if you go to new reservations you may get one early afternoon for 1 or 2 people. We are playing today, a foursome, at 2:32.

Tee times
 

People can’t do their preferred sport so now they are playing golf more until the other sports are opened up.

I golf but am not good but not bad either, I have my days but I don’t think there are any PRO’S living in TV. Executive golf may not be your cup of tea but it is golf, there is a course, tee times, greens, flag sticks, holes, balls and you use golf clubs to hit the ball. When I am out walking I see some golfers on championship courses that probably spend more tome on executive courses, just saying.

Tee times
 

Open up the pickle ball/tennis courts, the softball leagues, all the other closed activities, and, you'll be surprised at all the pen tee times.

Have to disagree. Had no trouble getting tee times on execs or championship courses before the shutdown of everything else.

Most people who are shut out so to speak put in very few courses and a limited range of available times. I golf three times weekly on Championship and have NEVER been shut out. Our group puts in ALL courses and at least a five hour window. We may not get our first choice or best time but we always golf. Another factor is how high pointers affect your group!

The complainers here are very limiting and do not understand the situations and how they affect what you may desire and what can be made available.

Best advice : expand your horizons!

No. My husband puts in 10 or 12 executive courses and we get a tee time.