Now, this isn't snark - this is an attempt at a CUTE JOKE.........here goes........wait for it.........is that buddy the hairy one in the picture with the 4 paws........what a cutie!

Tell me why the Buffalo were removed? I know do you?

Wasn't their farts causing global warming???? :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Or did grandpa do something incredibly stupid.

Waiting for jimjams reply.

Once again, you repeat the same false information...

They are building and have plans for 3-4 MORE Championship and 3-5 MORE Executive courses...

The current Pitch & putt and Putting courses were added in as a fill in for land that was too small for bigger courses. NOT because of a lagging interest in golf...

And they DO plant mature palms and all sorts of trees, bushes and other ground cover. The even do it on those dreaded championship and executive golf courses that no one plays on anymore, since they're too crowded (with a nod to Yogi...)

You would know that if you ever actually visited a golf course. But you'd rather make up nonsense...

Yes, they could buy cow pastures and replant them into a forest. IF THEY WERE INSANE... What developer anywhere would do such a foolish thing?

You're living in a fantasy land...

You really think that once all of the underground infrastructure is in place, and all the houses are built out, that they will return and add MORE houses to a village? Where do you come up with such nonsense?

And the buffalo were removed because some idiots kept wanting to pet them and got injured. Now, they were left with vacant land. They used that land for another purpose... They saw a need and addressed it...

Ugg (sic), more nonsense...You know absolutely nothing about water management on a golf course...

Of course the golf course is built lower than the houses. They WANT that extra water. It decreases the need for watering.

I used to live on a TPC course in MD. EVERY SINGLE HOUSE was built higher than the adjacent course... It's done ON PURPOSE...

Sorry, I wrecked the surprise... I posted the answer before I saw your questions... My bad...

It’s called civil engineering - rain water management, it is not an accident.

I have to laugh at all the moans about how far people have to travel for shops and golf.
No one travels more than 15 minutes anywhere in TV (unless on foot) to a shop or golf course.
I will wager that the majority traveled a whole lot further in their previous homes.
I agree infrastucture went in before homes "Up North" in previous years, but everything will come to those who wait!

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.

There is a Villages sport development department?

One would think that the courses with plenty of open tee-times, by definition would be LESS POPULAR that those courses where it's nearly very difficult to get any tee-times, let alone good ones?

I just described the difference between the pitch & putts and the executive courses.

Those "oh so popular pitch & putts" have plenty of open tee-times, day in and day out. Where the executive courses (where beginners can get a better feel for the ENTIRE GAME OF GOLF) are nearly full, day in and day out...

Add to that, there are also more than 10xs as many executive courses than pitch & putts...

Of course you're free to "think" anything you like, but the FACTS prove your "thoughts" to be wrong...

And you actually thing "rock climbing walls" and "roller skate obstacle tracks" are a good thing for senior citizens? Are you an orthopedic surgeon, who's been punking us all this time? Trying to drum up business?

You constantly talk about golf causing injuries to people. What do you think a "roller skate obstacle track" will do?

I won't even comment on your other suggestions, but I'd like to have some of whatever you were smoking when you came up with them...

It's already turned to crap...

I had to laugh about Dog fetching Frisbee classes.
Last dog I had, used to look at me as if I was nuts when I threw things for him to fetch.
His attitude was, "You threw the Bl**dy thing, you go fetch it!"

Just remembered a good sport for those loyal and enthusiastic cat lovers. The great international sport of "cat juggling". This sport, I believe, was popularized in the United States by that former "All World" champion cat juggler.........Steve Martin, who was well known to be a great athlete in his youth. He could play the banjo with one hand and juggle 3 cats simultaneously in the other hand.

Like that's hard to do... :jester:

I think that the original thread starter calling the pitch and putt courses to be "non-desirable" to be ignorant and elitist. Why does he get to make that judgement?

Like you, he is entitled to his opinion. The bigger question is: How did this thread go from pitch and putt golf to cat juggling?????

Because there are some actual facts so back up that opinion...

If you have to ask... :p

We Need MORE Pitch and Putts
 

These courses are wonderful and great exercise. Golf carts are not permitted on them and all of them require skill. Hopefully they put more in the Villages! Sorry Northerners, you probably don’t have the room.

Well, that was just a 9 iron away.

I call......OVERLY judgemental!

[QUOTE=Dog breeding classes .[/QUOTE]


There's a classic. I'm sure neighbors breeding dogs would go over well in the neighborhood.

... as if there aren't already enough discussions about dogs in The Villages.

I read a scientific text on dog breeding. also, as an aside, Russian scientists bred very stable human-loving foxes in 4 generations from wild to adorable.........true story!