If we live next to an Exec course, can we just walk on and play?
 

Of course, we would never walk on if the course was busy. But if the course was not busy and there was a large break between groups, would there be a problem if my wife and I walked on and started playing? We would not use carts.

We now live in Virginia and we hope to sell our house in the Spring. After that, we plan to move to Florida and look for a house in The Villages.

Ideally, we would like to live on one of the Exec courses, especially if we can just walk on and play on occasion.

You would need to talk to the Starter Shack for the course and be assigned a time to tee off. If the course wasn't busy, it's quite possible you would be able to play immediately.

You must check in with the starter whenever you play. You do not check in first you will be asked to leave even if you live on the course and even if the course is empty.

OK, your answer is very clear.

Have you ever heard of anyone being asked to leave because they walked on the course and started playing?

yes

I once worked at a private club where the second tee and eighth green were near each other and adjacent to a public road. Many of the local residents had what they referred to as a two to eight membership.

You can certainly walk on to you executive golf course from your back yard, and everything will be fine........as long as you don't get caught.

Generic question from one who does not play golf nor live on a golf course...would just walking onto an exec [or any] golf course be considered proper golf etiquette?

off topic alert:
Generally speaking, are golf course lots more expensive on championship courses or executive courses? Or are they about the same. Or are there many other considerations?

on a scale of 1-10, it's a negative 14

You will find many days from late spring to late October that many of the execs are pretty empty from late morning on. It's very easy to check in with the starter, then go right out to play golf.

assuming of course that you are dressed appropriately and have a villages id

I live in Tamarind Grove and the street next to ours is Odessa Circle. On one of of Odessa the homes have a villa wall behind them, on the outer side of the circle they have Southern Star Executive behind them. Those homes sold for $135,000 more than the ones across the street. That was the going rate for a golf course lot in 2011 when they were built regardless of the type of course. The villa wall homes were also charged a premium for having the wall, even though some of them had yards no deeper than 12' to the wall. I believe golf course lots now go as high as $175,000 in the Brownwood area.

Once after I first moved year in 2011 I noticed the cart path at Southern Star Executive was very wide, about 6' to 10' and concrete and would make an excellent bicycle path and I would not have go out on the street to ride my bike. Even though I noticed that day there were hardly any golfers on the course, within two minutes of riding my bike a marshall told me to leave. So you can figure that anyone on the course who is not authorized to be there, will be asked to leave no matter what you're doing, even just walking or jogging.

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Thank-you
When I bought 2 1/2 yrs ago the Evens Prairie lots were 155. I always wondered if the lots on sweetgum or mangrove were also 155. just curious

Thank you for asking your question. Yes, check in with the starter.

NO!

Don't forget about the trail fees!

The OP prefers walking so no trail fee required.

Most times it pays to read all the posts.....

I wonder why people don't read previous posts to see if the question has already been answered. :confused:

Boredom? To keep a conversation going?

I had no idea golf course lots were that high in Brownwood!
 

Amazing!.... Because, you can buy a golf front home on Mira Mesa, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with pool for 329,000. I personally would rather buy on Mira Mesa and not have a BOND in the La Reynolda Village, or Valle Verde Village. Different strokes for different folks!

I read your question to my husband and he said, "He must be pulling your leg". And then he said, "If he plays golf he must know that you can't do that on any course in the world".


And I say no, even if it's empty. You start at the starter shack. Period and Amen.

OP, there was another thread on a similar subject here: https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ight=golf+dusk

Might be of help.

We are members of a private golf club in Northern Virginia and several of our members live next to the course. Late in the afternoon, some of them walk on to the course and play a few holes before dark. Of course, they never cut in front of other groups. No one has ever complained about them doing this.

Since people do it at our club and since all Villagers can play for free on the Exec courses, I wondered if people did it in The Villages.

The answer is yes...
 

some folks do it in the villages. The problem is that if they get caught they can be banned. Is it really worth it with so many areas to practice and so easy to get a tee time even in high use season(I've never, ever failed to get a tee time as a single).

That was a very good thread. Thanks very much for mentioning it.

Absolutely not. Spoken like a person that knows nothing about the game. First of all the champion golf courses cost money to play. That would be totally improper and that goes for the executive courses as well. That's like breaking in line or sneaking in thru a back door into a movie theater. I'm actually surprised at this question! When you get here they give you a book of rules for the golf courses; I suggest you read it and all your questions will be answered.

We have belonged to Private Clubs but the ones where we belonged in Illinois and Tennessee never would allow you to just walk on and start playing golf, and it didn't matter if you lived in a million dollar house on the golf course or was President of the Board of Directors.

When you belong to a Club, it is important that all members are treated equal. I suspect that is also true and the idea here in TV.
Your Club in Virginia is a rare exception and not the rule.

Gof course lots are a matter of supply and demand. Prices rise accordingly.

Calm down. He said he plays golf, so he doesn't "know nothing about the game." He said he belongs to a private club that allows this to happen. He said he would live on an executive course, (free) not a champion course. Nobody has any proof that every single golf club in the US does not allow this practice.

He asked a simple question, and people are jumping all over him. Just not right.

Those of us who gave our opinion all play Golf. It is very uncommon and looked down on to just walk on a course. It is using property without permission. Some of us have played for decades and played all over the country. I have lived in golf course communities for the last forty years. People would really look down on you if you just walked on without a starter. I guess you CAN, but should you?


Also, you are not supposed to walk for exercise or walk your dog on the course after hours.

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I play golf too now. I know the rules. I was commenting on the snarkyness of some of the answers to a simple question. No reason to accuse someone of not knowing the game of golf. No reason not to take his initial statements at face value. No reason to be mean.

Go back and read the link I posted. Even some ambassadors allow this to happen. Read Buggyone's post: "If the executive starter shacks are closed in the late evening, there is no problem in going out on your own.

"In this off season, you can just go to almost any executive course after 3 and find it wide open. You will not be paired up hardly ever. I went to Hawks Bay at 6 this evening, played 9 holes with a buddy and home at 7:30."

I apologize. I thought you were a non golfer.

That's very interesting. At our Country Club, people do both. On days when the course is open, we often see walkers in the very early morning or late evening. When the course is closed because of bad weather, my wife and I often go there, have lunch, and go for a walk, staying on the cart paths, of course.

We also see people walking their dogs in the late evening, and almost all of them have the sense to keep the dogs on a leash. Once I had an unleashed dog come charging up to me while barking in a menacing manner, so I pulled out one of my clubs and took a swing at it. The dog backed off and its owner quickly came up and put a leash on it. Other than that one incident, no problems.

This place is different than any place I have ever known, AND it is MUCH larger than most people are expecting. It works because people, FOR THE MOST PART, respect the deed restrictions and the rules and are intrinsically caring and respectful of others, FOR THE MOST PART..


I love it here. Golf is very different than golf in the outside world, but I still love the golf-y atmosphere, and the beautiful vistas of golf courses everywhere. And I have always loved golfers. Real golfers pretty much always act like ladies and gentlemen.

So now you know... No walking on...No leisurely walks...No dog walking. Thank you for asking.

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That's true. But in the summertime, do they adjust their hours? Doesn't get late till 7 or so.

I agree with that. Most of us who play a lot of golf know how to act.

One of the members of our Board of Directors at our club, a very good golfer, often walks his dog along the perimeter of our course during the day. He never interferes with our play and is never in our line of vision when we are hitting our shots, so it is not a problem.

Occasionally I see people, like high-school kids, walking on our course and we can tell they have no idea what they are doing. I don't think they understand how far golf balls travel and how wild some golfers are. None of them have ever been hit, to my knowledge.