Does your logic hold for climbing over the gate at a pool after hours, so you can swim?

I actually do pay the trail fee for when I use my cart to golf but since I'm talking about walking along the path after all golf has ceased I don't see how that applies. The trail fee only applies to carts.

So before 4:00 you can’t get the virus but after 4:00 you can?

I think you need to set up a watch post to ensure that isn't happening.

So your logic failed........

No direct connection with catching the virus......staffing issue. Read all the posts!

Played Cane Garden this morning and had 2
walkers in front of us as we were teeing off.
We asked them to wait until we hit so no one would be
In danger. They did move off to the side and eventually
turned around and walked to the previous hole
We played $94 to play there and do not expect to see
Walkers. There were no ambassadors around so it went
Unnoticed!!

Yes, please obey the rules
We don’t want or need another thing to do taken away

I believe walking on the golf cart paths after play has been terminated in the evenings is a great idea. No bikes, no dogs and no carts. Just people out for a nice stroll in the evening.

innovate!
 

If the Family cares, they should have a select number of drones they can fly over the courses to check. I don't know if they DO have them, but if not, it could be time.

I’m a golfer (not during this crisis) and I do not have a dog, so I have no dog in this fight. Ha ha.

Anyway, I’m just wondering...in this social distancing world, folks need to spread out. Is it possible that people (with or without dogs) simply need a place to walk in the evening without getting too close?
I think Dog parks, Weichens and Polo grounds are closed. Is it really so awful if they walk on cart paths? Maybe I have more faith than most but I think the vast majority are responsible dog owners.

Oh, and I’ll throw the b s flag on the insurance argument. TV is far too savvy to not have liability insurance around the clock.
PS - it never even occurred to me to walk a cart path, but why not live and let live?

Pedestrians and any unauthorized person, persons, and person or persons with their dogs, on any part of any of the courses, has always been prohibited, any time of the day or night. What the hell makes people think it's alright now??

Steve

My guess is because they are "entitled" and that the rules don't pertain to them.

Isn't there a phone number on the score card?

That should work rather well...…………...another new set of rules to replace a very simple one.

golfers
 

I left the villages nearly 3 years ago for the lack of health care that was and still is. the same I do miss golf

Very much agree! Who is being harmed by opening up the courses to walkers/bikers after golf has ended?

Private property, think if you were not at home and some people walked their dogs inside your living room without your permission, would you feel they were violating your private property? I would.

Just drove by Havana parking lot full of blue cones golfers everywhere socializing
Just because you pay there's different set of enforcement rules are rules
Where the someone who has a friend that an ambassador on this one

At 4 Pm the tenth hole at OBG has an ambassador and/or a one and ours even closed sign. It was my interpretation you cannot tee off after 4 pm on 1st hole or number 10.

Maybe they were starting all groups on 10 all day long

Walkers don't belong on a golf course....if someone is stupid enough to walk onto a golf course right in front of golfer's teeing off or between golfers on the fairway and the green they absolutely deserve to get hit in the head, neck, shoulders, stomach, groin, leg, ankle anywhere...they don't belong there

I wonder if these 'entitled' folks are stupid enough to walk across the driving range down on Rolling Acres when it's packed with folks hitting balls, or would they walk across the shooting lanes over at Shooter's World after hearing 'ready on the right, ready on the left'

I don’t understand
 

I trying to understand your logic. It’s not okay to golf on an executive golf course after golfers with a tee time finish for the day but it is okay to walk your dog on the golf course after golf is finished for the day. :ohdear:

It doesn’t make sense to me that we can’t play golf after hours the way we did before. It is safer because you can play alone or with your partner. If you get a tee time they put other people with you who may not follow the six foot distance rule so if everything they are doing is for our safety they are missing the boat.

It's actually pretty simple. They never want anyone to play unless there is an ambassador out there to supervise play. Whether or not they actually do that or not is another discussion, but I think they do a great job. There aren't enough staff members to keep everything running at the usual times, that's why the championship courses went to straight tee times and all courses have a last tee time of 4PM. Today I heard 57 staff members have elected to stay home during this time, whether that is true or not---???????

asked to leave
 

I was asked to leave course at 7:25 PM. The ambassador could just as easily taken my Id # as before. Makes more business sense and could lower our fees for next year because of more revenue. But I guess we need to be punished. Makes as much sense to me.

Here is the logic
 

Change the words golfers to swimmers, golf course to sports pool and change " walk your dog" to "wash your dog", and it becomes : it's not okay to swim in the sports pool after swim time is over but it is okay to wash you dog in the pool after hours. Get the logic now, Justjim? Folks here, like folks everywhere, want what they want without regard for laws, rules, respect for others property, etc. As for the "I don't see the problem" type comments, they are either (sadly) too dumb to see the problem or, more likely , just don't want to see it.

Did you know that you weren't supposed to be there at that time?

what the heck is a weed chopper?

I’ve ran a few off Southern Star since the 4pm shutdown started.

I asked them, in a nice way of course, what part of the “course closed sign” did they not understand?

Seriously? You can’t tell people to stay 6’ away from you? Man up (or lady up) and use a stern voice and tell them to back off. It could save your life.

Don't you all get tired off complaining about everything under the sun for the umpteenth time? Maybe its time to get off the computer, step outside, and just be glad you are alive.

I notice that no one can come up with a valid reason why walkers are not allowed on the course after the golfers are finished. The primary response has been, "because those are the rules". Do people ever question whether the rules make sense? I bet if they came out and said people are no longer allowed to walk on the sidewalks, or no golf cars allowed to be out after 6 PM the same people here would be out defending these rule with the same arcane logic - because it's the rules.

With everything closed down in The Villages, I would think that those who claim to want to make this a great place to live should be looking for creative ways to safely improve our lifestyle in these trying times rather than just ways to clamp down on it. I'm sure that walking on a golf course cart path after the golfers are gone has got to be one of the safest things one can do here - certainly safer than walking on the sidewalk which necessitates crossing sometimes busy streets. It is also far safer than walking on a multi-modal path with golf carts speeding by - yet no one has any problem with that.

Agree completely for post #76. Last year I was looking forward to moving to The Villages as a great place to live.
Today, having been reading these blogs for some time, I am now not so sure.
The carping about everything, and the people whose hobby is riding around in golf carts just looking for infractions of HOA rules are a big turnoff.

I heard that's not true

You're right I would stay where you are. You seem like such a nice person and I don't think you will fit in here. Just stay where you are

Dogs Playing 9
 

This whole thread is amazing with everyone so up in arms over something so trivial. Have any of them noticed we have a global situation? But a dog on a golf course turns people into raving lunatics? Get a grip! Personally I would never walk a dog on a golf course considering the level of chemicals dumped everywhere. Grab your Zoloff and chill out.

Remember when Jerry Seinfeld bought his dad Morty a Cadillac and the people in his Florida retirement community Del Boca Vista, arousing suspicion among his neighbors, particularly Jack Klompus, that he was stealing from the board coffers. He was impeached and resigned when the tie-breaking voter Mabel Choate turned against him upon remembering that Jerry had stolen a loaf of Marble Rye bread from her. That show was more real than you think.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jGGi4SpPtqc/hqdefault.jpg

You want a reason.
 

Sorry this response is so late. How about this, a golf course is NOT a public park, dog park, polo field or off-road mud-buggy play area. Therefore, you should NOT be there unless you have checked in with the starter and been sent onto the course to play golf.
I would like to believe you are smart enough to understand this. Sadly, far too many folks either are too dumb to understand while others just pretend they don't understand.

So who exactly owns the property? I'm asking in reference to the executive golf courses? Several people love to use this argument so I am curious.