Free golf on the championship courses would simply be impractical...no...totally impossible financially.

And while executive courses are lots smaller and somewhat designed to accommodate beginner/lesser skilled golfers, they are definitely real golf courses, just not full-scale championship courses. The greens, traps, hazards, etc. are basically the same. Fewer drives and longer shot are required of course. But every shot you hit on an exec course is a shot that you will be required to hit many times on a champ course. Even for skilled golfers, it's a great way to practice the short game...because it is real golf.

I agree...................the executives continue to kick my butt when I'm not watching.

We want a set of shuffleboard courts, so we can have tournaments and play on courts that people haven't damaged.
TV see's shuffleboard as something to keep the kids busy when they are here.

You're talking April. Try February and March. Very difficult to get a teetime for a twosome unless you play at a time no one else wants, like 7:00 in the morning when there is a frost delay and everyone gets cancelled anyways, or 4:00 in the afternoon. Or you end up playing at one of the courses golfers are avoiding because it is in poor condition.

If people are looking for some unbiased comments on golf course conditions made by golfers who tend to golf a lot and are serious and knowledgeable about the course and conditions, check out the Golf Course conditions posts located in TOTV under Recreation in The Villages. The other online Villages news source also has some recent comments about the Villages course conditions, and they are not complimentary.

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I do a tee time each week for 16. We normally get a tee time between 9:00 and 10:00; typically within 30 minutes of what I request. We were denied once this year when the average points of the group was about 2.5. If you have a lot of points you may see some issues with tee times during snowbird season.

In the nine years I have been here I never once had a ranger say anything about the pace of play.

Do they keep coming back to the courses they do not enjoy? If so, why do they do that?

That has also been my experience.
Flexibility of courses and requested windows of time, both are important.
Tee time request rarely denied for our group unless point count is very high.

The course level of play is relative. I have played better on Level 4 courses then others that are rated lower.

when I first arrived I played 7 days a week. Twice on championship 5 times on executive. After six years of that it began to resemble Ground Hog Day
now I play perhaps three times a week . the courses were not crowded then

Points matter unless you wait until the window closes

When you play in a large group, you take what teetime/course you are given. You have to put in a large window of times and courses.

You are correct about the points. And if you have a group of guys that are avid golfers, playing 4 times a week, for example, the average points is higher than the couple who might play once or twice a week.

Yes, that is true. And the couple who plays less frequently will have less issues with getting tee times. If a group has an average of 4 points (from playing 4 times per week) they are going to have issues getting a tee time during snowbird season unless they want the earliest or latest tee times. The one time my group of 16 was denied (because of high points) I was able to manually get a tee time for 16 but it was early. You can almost always get a tee time but the more you play the greater the chances that it won't be exactly when you want and/or where you want.

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Never a problem on championship courses. Exec courses are filled for later requests in the winter months. Need to be flexible on tee time requests, especially exec courses.