[NoMo50]

Originally Posted by La lamy

NO WAY. Crazy uptick in amenities fee just to over-maintain a golf course year round for one weekend.

None of your amenity fee goes toward the building/maintenance/upkeep of the championship courses.

[MidWestIA]

Do you mean like would I pay a annual subsidy to get it NO I can drive to plenty in FL

[jarodrig]

NO !!! We don’t need to add to the already horrendous congestion in this area !

[jimschlaefer]

Can't see it. Don't want it. Didn't move here to have to put up with 10's to 100's of thousands of tourists clogging up everything from circles to restaurants to bars to amenities over the course of a couple of weeks a year. Any discussion is even a non-starter for me (and I play golf, even have attended PGA tournaments).

[RichardMichael]

would a LPGA event be a better fit ?
a bit smaller ... but provide a very positive spotlight on our great community here.
just my thought.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Pairadocs

YEARS ago, when we first purchased our lot for future building, THAT was a major advertising line... that when the "new" Arnold Palmer course was finished, the V's WOULD be hosting major PGA tournaments. You know how that went, I think we had ONE LPGA event, a senior tour stop, once. Not much done on it in the last 20 years, so don't count on much in the future. Florida offers a LOT of appropriate courses to the PGA and LPGA.

Yes, Walgreens sponsored a Senior LPGA event (I don't even know if their is still such an organization) at Lopez, but apparently it was a one-off. The National "Shoot Your Age" Tournament was held at Palmer back in 2005 or 2006, I think, and it featured Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Otherwise, I don't think these courses would qualify to hold a "Hooters Tour" event.

[tvbound]

Originally Posted by Steve

Yes, Walgreens sponsored a Senior LPGA event (I don't even know if their is still such an organization) at Lopez, but apparently it was a one-off. The National "Shoot Your Age" Tournament was held at Palmer back in 2005 or 2006, I think, and it featured Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. Otherwise, I don't think these courses would qualify to hold a "Hooters Tour" event.

"...Senior LPGA event (I don't even know if their is still such an organization)..."


There is at the amateur level at least, which actually held their 2022 Open Championship in a place - which is a long ways from here. lol

https://www.usga.org/content/usga/ho...r.html#!latest

U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
Anchorage Golf Course, Anchorage, Alaska
JULY 30 - AUGUST 4, 2022

[JGibson]

I would rather have a LIV event.

[DONS999]

Innisbrook and the Copperhead coarse have had a major tour event every year north of Clearwater . They are land locked and have figured it out

[HORNET]

Don’t need any more non- villagers ripping up the place

[kkingston57]

.0001 chance of this ever happening. Even a title sponsored (Honda) tournament had problems for years getting golf courses that the PGA would accept. Without Jack Nicklaus this tournament would have ended years ago.

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by NoMo50

None of your amenity fee goes toward the building/maintenance/upkeep of the championship courses.

Noted. Thank you.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Would you be excited if The Villages built a PGA Caliber course (and maintained it) BUT, there would be a PGA event hosted here every year?

NONE of out courses are long enough or challenging enough.

There is "not one" fairway bunker in the right location.

[ljmarenco@aol.com]

Only if the LPGA tournament was played as well!!!

Would probably be cheaper to maintain the courses!


There should be an explanation as to why so many are in such poor condition.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

NONE of out courses are long enough or challenging enough.

There is "not one" fairway bunker in the right location.

That's because these courses are built to allow people to enjoy golf and fool themselves into thinking that they are better than they are.

You're right in that many of the bunkers are simply decorative. They are there to make it look like a gold course. Even some green side bunkers are so far out of play that they are just decorations.