This is like an Abbott & Costello routine.

Who would build houses at a lower elevation than a golf course, when the golf course happens to be part of one of the most sophisticated drainage systems in the USA?

In a battle of wits, it's best to come armed .... I thought everyone knew that?

Great courses
 

Great courses if just learning or kids come to visit. They get a lot of play not always because they can't get on elsewhere, but be cause the like them. More executive courses coming south of 44, be patient.

Really want to know?.......OK......Some stupid Villagers allowed their stupid grandchildren to crawl through the fence and go out to "PET" the nice, cuddly BUFFALO. Then the buffalo did what buffalo do and protected their herd and charged the children. Later on the Buffalo got shot and sent out to restaurants. Moral of the story......stupidity reigns supreme in the camp of the ignorant.

Sure does. But that's that many less buffalo burps you have to worry about causing global warming :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

It was dumb luck.

So, they really were not moved by the greedy Developer to sell the land. Sometimes your stories don’t make any sense.

Sometimes? :shrug:

Beat me to it! :icon_wink:

Truly if the Buffalo would have charged children they would be dead.

So the real story grandpa held up the 4yo male grandchild, to pet Buffalo, leaning over the fence. Buffalo bit the child’s fingers. Lawsuit followed.

Buffalo moved to undisclosed area. Which some who live and work for TV, know exactly where they reside now.

That PARTICULAR story ( about where have all the Buffalo gone, long time passing) MUST make sense because it is TRUE.......... TRUTH has a way of making SENSE and being logical. And when it is said that sometimes I DON'T make sense, that is ALMOST a compliment because it MUST mean that most of the time, I MUST make sense.
........Thanks, I appreciate that. No one is perfect so I can be pleased when I make sense most of the time. And since this is an OPINION forum, then some folks are always going to disagree with some other folks. That's just HUMAN NATURE. One man's opinion about what makes sense is another man's (or woman's) nonsense.

OK. I can believe that version of the story. It is only SLIGHTLY different from the story as I heard it. Your details MAY (?) be more accurate than the story that I was told. It is all 2nd hand stories. None of us were actually there at that time. Maybe there was something accurate that could be relied upon written in a newspaper article back then. It is NOT that interesting that anyone wants to do RESEARCH on it.
.........I just tried to be helpful because some other poster brought up the question.
.........And as to the last sentence about the Buffalo being MOVED........I would question that as just a story to make TV Land feel better about where they went.....just like the stories told by the alligator trappers about RELOCATING the alligators. Yes, the alligators get relocated to peoples' stomachs by the alligator trappers. I TEND to think that the Buffalo exist today absorbed from the stomachs of some humans into their muscle structure.

Only in the villages could the original post be about pitch and putt golf courses and morph into buffaloes attacking children, and trapping alligators. :eclipsee_gold_cup:

OK. I think that Pitch and Putt golf has the advantage that it appeals to more people than Executive courses. - the number of beginners in ANY sport ALWAYS exceeds the number of experts. The experts are willing to travel further for a course, so it is advantageous to have as MANY Pitch and Putts available as possible and as CLOSE as possible. The PNP courses have the advantages of COSTING much less to build and maintain while appealing to a greater audience. It seems strange to me that expert golfers would NOT want to encourage as many beginners to their sport as possible. It seems SELFISH to deny the PNP players a solid introduction to their fine and to-be-worshipped sport. You can't have a GREAT sport without a solid foundation. That is what female athletes learned beginning in about 1970 with the introduction of female soccer, tennis, running sports, and many others.
.......If I were managing The Villages' sport development, I would put in another track in the newest Villages. And I would set up an indoor (or outdoor) rock climbing situation. Also roller skate obstacle tracks. Dog obedience classes. Dog breeding classes. Dog fetching frisbees classes. Dog field trial exhibitions. Fly casting classes. Something (?) for cat lovers. And maybe some hedgehog races. Just kidding about the hedgehogs, but they can be quite cute.

Give it enough time and it will turn to dog poop.