You can play 9 anytime you want. I did it yesterday at Palmer at 1:58. They ask you every time is it for 9 or 18, even at 11 am.

Wrong understanding of economics.............no trickle down with minimum wage increase.......them there peeps are at the bottom. :ohdear:

Trickle up? Someone's going to pay

Yes fully understand the wave and straight time scheduling, yet we have played between 3 and 3:20 at Evans Prairie several times in recent weeks, scheduled this on-line, and gone off on time without disrupting the PM wave. They just stopped offering after 3 tee times at EP this week. This is exactly what caused starting this thread.

Not after 3:00 on all courses except OBH & TDS.

Yes but...
 

This was only because EP wasn’t using a “wave” due to one course being closed. They are back on the “wave” this week...

Yes, reduce the supply of "evening - lower cost" tee times by closing 10 of 12 courses to after 3:00PM play, forcing as many players as possible into "higher rate" time slots. As stated earlier, Economics 101 regarding winter golf in the Villages says it's a much better deal to play "off campus". Hardly a good business model.

Bitch all you want people, this will not affect the course play at all.

The "Official" Villages Golf schedule for 5/1 thru 12/31/20 provides a pricing chart for morning, afternoon and evening waves at all courses except OBH & TDS.
The second page of this rate schedule states, "9-Hole play is allowed all day, every day, on any of our championship courses." Yet no after 3:00PM (evening wave play) is allowed to be booked on 10 of the 12 courses.

Seems the economic model is working fine.....for those where golf is a financial decision then off campus is the way to go. And as long as those that play based on cost stay in the minority (which based on population growth I think they will--IMO) there will be no incentive to change the model.

If you have the last tee time in the afternoon wave, you won't start the back nine until around 3:50 (1:52 start time + 2 hrs to play the front nine). Now if the wave is full, how could you expect them to have a 3:00 tee time? The first players in the afternoon wave don't finish till 4:00 - 4:15.

If there were additional opportunity to play cheap golf after 3:00pm, it would be quickly taken by the multitude of players who are looking for the same thing as you. I think that you would find close to the same difficulty as you are having now.