Country Club Rates
 

We will be moving to TV in October. My fiancé and I are golfers which is why we are moving from the wine country of Southern California. Golf at nice courses is too expensive on a regular basis in California. We know the executive courses in TV are free with the exception of the trail fee. What we want to know is what the average cost is to play the Country Club courses?

Fred & Suzie :a040:

Here's a link to the CC rates.

golfthevillages.com/tee-times/golfrate.asp

Sorry...the actual URL link will not work on this site, so just put the address above in your browser

Country Club Rates
 

Thanks for the info. Found it and printed it out. :coolsmiley:

Are there any actual private country clubs in the vicinity of The Villages?

I know that they call what we have "country clubs" but they are actually regulation length daily fee courses.

Where I come from, you can join a private country club by paying an initiation fee, and annual dues and play unlimited golf. Daily fee is by far the most expensive way to play. Joining a club is much less expensive in the long run.

Do any of the Country Clubs in TV offer membership discounts?

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I do not know but if you find out please post it here so we all can see

If you purchase a priority membership you do get a lower rate and the use of the CC pools. If you play a lot the discount will pay for the priority cost. Don't know if there are any private "Country Clubs" nearby. Downside of CC's is you play the same course all the time, there can be hidden costs such as monthly food minimums, tipping for the staff, bag storage etc. Something everywhere for everyone...just depends on what you want.

There is a Priority Membership at one, two, three, . . . all clubs that provides a discount on fees ranging from about $15 per round during the high season down to $5 during the summer. Cost depends on whether it includes one or both members of the household. If you go to golfthevillages dot com and look at championship enhancements, there is more information.

Thank you. That is just the information I needed.

As stated by "Dr." what we have here are not what I would consider a country club where one has a membership. I have always chuckled at the tag line line free membership at all of our country clubs in the commercial :duck:

They offer something called priority membership. If you look at the rate sheet you will see different rates, one being a priority.

Go to http://www.golfthevillages.com/championship-golf

You will see a link for the rates, look right next to it for what a priority membership gives you.

Still a public course, but you get a better rate and other stuff and someone (courses) gets a nice cash guaranteed cash flow no matter the play for the season...

There are,a number of Championship courses within 20 miles of the villages that charge a daily rate lower than the villages country club rates. Example during the busy season village courses charge around $50 for 18. Del Web is around $35. Other courses are,even cheaper.

You will see plenty of deals in the Daily Sun when you get here.

Thanks, I found the information on priority memberships. You save $20.00 a round in green fees for a couple with the priority membership. For a couple it costs $925 a year for priority memberships in all the country clubs. Based on that information we would have to play 49 rounds from 10/1 to 4/30 to break even. In the summertime the discount is only $10.00 per couple. Assuming you played twice a week in the summertime, from 5/1 to 9/30 you would save $200.00 That reduces the actual annual savings with the priority memberships. A couple would have to play the country clubs twice a week all year long to save on green fees. There is no discount for golf carts but I assume everyone uses their own golf cart and pays a $5.00 trail fee.

Did I miss something or is there any other advantage to priority memberships other than having free access to the country club pools?

Trail Fee
 

There is an annual Trail Fee for your golf cart of $141.00. Note, this is for a household..it would include each legal 'resident' plus each golf cart. Example...includes my wife and myself plus our two golf carts.

The Priority membership covers golf cart trail fees on executive courses and as Bogie points out below, no trail fee on championship courses..

Questions
 

Would love to ask a variety of questions on the Country Clubs. Please provide a phone number we can call.

No trail fee on the Champ's.

These sites provide all the information about golf in TV,including phone numbers.
http://www.golfthevillages.com/golf-...heVillages.pdf
Golf The Villages
http://www.golfthevillages.com/golf-...heVillages.pdf

What exactly does this free membership entitle us to? From what I understand any member of the general public can play on our "country clubs". Do we get a lower rate if we don't have the priority membership?

It is my understanding that, without a priority membership, Villages residents are given a 10% discount compared to the rate a member of the general public would pay.

The General Public cannot play our "Country Clubs" unless they are a guest of a resident (need guest pass to get a better rate than just a guest of member) or have a transferred residential status because they are renting.

And Villagers do get free golf on all executive courses if you walk... It really is free!

Executive courses
 

Are the executive courses cart path only?:MOJE_whot:

Priority members get preferred tee times.

This is a plus, especially during the winter season when the courses are very busy.

Except on par fours. And all people with handicap stickers can drive the course.

That is not correct. The championship courses are open to the general public. That being said, non-owners will be at the bottom of the totem pole as far as getting a t-time. Basically, non-owners would get whatever t-times are left after all others are assigned.

No one is debating that. I do have a question however. Is it possible to play eighteen holes of golf every day on the executive courses.

Free Golf for Life is a pretty wide open term. How often can you play? How many holes can you play? If you go and use a practice putting green, have played golf for free that day? If you are allowed to play once a month or once a week at no charge does that cover the Free golf for life?

I no longer play golf, but I understand that it can be very difficult to get tee times in the winter months. There is some kind of point system that limits the amount that you can play.

I was kicked once this last season on the executive courses. My husband was not denied at all with Priority membership and playing three times a week on Championship courses. (This was in the last four months during the high season) He said he didn't always get his first time slot asked for.

I don't do it all the time but one time we played Hawke's Bay and after a coffee at Dunk's we walked on and played Saddlebrook. If you can stand the heat of mid day summer you can pretty much walk on. I've used putting greens on days I play or not.:wave:

Free means you can play the clubs course for the daily free oops fee:$::wave:

[quote=dbussone;1049167]It is my understanding that, without a priority membership, Villages residents are given a 10% discount compared to the rate a member of the general public would pay.[/quote
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How would a non owner request a tee time?

Free information. www.golfthevillages.com

As a single golfer my husband had no problem golfing every day when we were there from Jan-March. He was also able to book more than one round on days that he wanted to golf 18 holes. We used the 3 day booking system. Just waited until the reserves went thru and took what was left over.