Its not just Golf. Other activities have become more crowded as well. If you have points forget about the 'Request' for a tee time and use the Reservation mode where points are irrelevant. Up to three days ahead you can make a reservation for any open tee time. The best chance is to go into the system right after they have assigned tee times from the Request system. Three days before at Midnight they run the Requests. In an hour or two the requests are done. So at 1 or 2 am go into the system and look for an available tee time. Once the requests have been run Points will no longer matter for making a 'Reservation'. Don't expect anything in prime time, but you should be able to find something. Good Luck

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Try expanding your number of courses and select ones that are further north. North of 466a for example.

There is a pitch and putt at the First Responders Rec Ctr. Very north in the Villages.

Not a pitch and putt - First Responders is a putt only. Not part of the Executive Golf Course System.

The fourth generation developers don't care about tee times. They want to sell houses and build paying Championship courses open to the public. They don't care about aesthetics, they want to pack the houses in. No beautiful mvp Golf cart paths out that way majority are diamond lanes. They couldn't replicate a gorgeous treed in mvp golf path and come out $$ on top. They are putting in practically no trees and real plant, just palms (now deamed weeds in parts of FL) and scrub bushes. 140,000 people (?) And a permanently closed gorgeous movie theater in Brownwood. The list goes on and on that shows the newest areas are lacking what used to be excellent above the standard industry draws for picking T V.

They are doing the bare minimum to keep T V "lifestyle" appearance.

A dream stays alive when there is a vision... the magic fairy dust is blowing away in the dust bowl surrounding the temporary "new" center of T V. The next one is being planned already.

There is definity a honeymoon season living in T V and the further south one goes the quicker that ends.
It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

They aren't keeping up with free golf demand any longer. But hey at least there is disc golf now in the Hogeye Preserve, so tee up, that'll fix the lack of golf courses being built.

I'm playing today with 19 neighbors and we never have a problem

The developer DID listen to the priorities of the residents south of CR44! Everyone was connectivity, connectivity, connectivity! It takes a lot of money, resources, and TIME to get the state permitting to build 2 bridges over CR44 and especially 1 over the Florida Turnpike!!! The residents south of CR44 set the priorities and the developer complied! It appears to me that a lot of residences south of CR44 think their wishes can happen at the wave of a “Magic Wand “!!! “Patience Grasshoppers”!!!!!

Someone who is playing more than once in a day is playing on open tee times. A golfers name/ID Number can only appear on one Request per day. Open tee times are posted after all requests have been processed, and are available for everyone.

Look who is at the helm. Not Harold, not Gary. Its generation #3… They have a different philosophy.

Excellent advice!

We've been here close to four years now and TV continues to be everything we thought it would be, plus more. But, as Mom used to say, "you'd b!tch if you were hung with a new rope!". There is nothing like a gaggle of geezers for finding the cloud in every silver lining--and some will spare no effort looking until they DO find something to grouse about.

People need to realize that this is NOT utopia. We're 150,000 people, give or take, from all parts of the country and we all bring our different attitudes and expectations with us when we come here. There is nothing in or about The Villages that magically turns crabby and/or self-entitled older folks into placid doily-knitting grannies or bird-watching granddaddies if they were not that before they arrived. We're all who we were, and age has the unfortunate side-effect, in all too many cases. of magnifying that particular fact.

Yeah, tee times can be a bit hard to find these days, but it has apparently always been that way in the winter. But here's an idea. If you can't find anything, call a couple of the starter shacks and ask if they have an opening for one, or two, or whatever. People do cancel and there are occasional no-shows so you might get lucky. We do, maybe one day in three, when we do this. And go with the flow.

Building Pitch and Putts instead of Executive courses
 

[QUOTE=natjos;2293940]Well I have finally experienced the difficulty getting a Tee time that others have complained about. It has everything to do with the golfers in all of the new developments coming north because of the lack of courses in the south. I have been here for 10 years and have never been constantly shut out of getting a time.

The buildings of Pitch and Putts instead of Executive courses needs to stop. When you look for an open tee time Richmond, Marshview, Mickeylee are ALWAYS OPEN. Other courses well north of 466 are also occasionally open. The developer needs to convert southern Pitch and Putts to executive courses.

Also beware of the Disc Golf conversion. Much cheaper to maintain cans than greens. Downside will be the carpal tunnel that players develop. Grandkids need to stop being greedy

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For those who like to complain about the lack of available tee times, consider this: As a community, The Villages has more holes of golf available than anywhere else in the world. Think about that. Where else could you go where you think the situation is better? Kind of reminds me of the person holding a Virginia ham under each arm, complaining that they have no bread.

Be flexible. Be proactive. With skill and perseverance, you will get a tee time.

I live south of 44 and typically play 3-4 times a week with neighbors. We have several groups in our neighborhood ranging from as small as 4-8 and as many as 32 golfers. In the last few weeks we got tee times for two large groups of 28-32 golfers, so there are tee times available if you know how to use the online system.

Yes, we've also been shut out, but rarely.

Sorry for those with limited flexibility.

The developer knows how full the courses are or aren't. They also have stats showing cancellations and unused tee times.

Be flexible, be persistent. You can get a tee time with better planning.

People just don’t think! They cannot see the obvious! Just take a few moments and close your eyes and think! Think of a community up north where you came from that has about 150,000 residents. Think about all the shops, plazas, restaurants, supermarkets, parks, roads, hospitals, etc.etc. Do you think all those things were built before the people moved there???!!! “Patience Grasshoppers”!!!

Nope.

All are land developers.

Harold & Gary made over a BILLION dollars developing land.

Third & Fourth generations are developing land and making a buck.

All very successful.

Same model.

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