Nancy Lopez Golf Course
 

Played NL last Thursday and Tuesday this week. Sad to say what terrible greens on Ashley and Torri. It has been some time since they were aerated, but they have not recovered. This is a classic example of non golf course professional trying to to a rather easy job of punching and top dressing greens. I will say there fairways are in good shape, but also, not fully recovered. Some of the par 3 white tee boxes have very little grass. This is FL, the easiest thing to grow is grass.

I played Ashley to Tori a couple weeks ago, just before the greens were punched, and they were as good as any greens I have ever played in the Villages (with the possible exception of Tierra Del Sol). Give them some time to recover.

Lopez
 

Greens still
Very bad as of today. Need 3
4’more weeks

What?
 

A properly aerated green should recover to less than 2 weeks. Anything less is an example of a improperly aersated green. Been playing golf in Florida for over 50 years so I know.

Played Lopez this past Wednesday...also disappointed in the greens...bumpy...ball hopped across the green when putted. Didn't expect that since it's been so long since aeration.

Try playing out of The Villages once in a while so that you can see how a golf course should be maintained....

We played Harbor Hills on Wednesday and the conditions were as close to a “private” club as you can get .

$25 with their “Mulligan Pass” we were given a couple of weeks ago ......

The Villages courses have 3 million rounds played in year and with the virus every group has 4 carts in use. These 4 carts put a great deal of stress on a course (reason for closer of courses after 1st wave). You will find courses outside TV that overseed and have at times better conditions but overall I don't believe they offer better golf experience day in and day out than what we have in TV.

The “one person per cart” mandate has now been lifted so perhaps people (friends) will go back to two persons per cart as before .

On the weekends, all championship courses are now on straight tee times . So the courses get a little break .

Perhaps the championship courses should permanently go to straight tee times instead of the wave system. That would certainly give the courses a break to recover a little and so that they can be properly maintained.

We all know this is not going to happen because it’s all about the Benjamins and not about giving you better than average course conditions.......

are you a golf course superinteendent

Played Glenview Friday. Just awful. I do not understand why they punch the greens when they are in great shape and are still using the large tines instead of the smaller ones. And why so long to heal? Could it be ineptitude?

And the reason they WERE in great shape, as you state, is BECAUSE they punch them as you described. The smaller holes do not achieve the desired results in the long run.

You do know that you can refer to the aerification schedule online so that you can avoid playing on a course recently punched if it’s that important to you.

Played Lopez Friday and Saturday and yes, the greens have not yet recovered from the punching done in late May. Many of the bunkers had hard compacted sand with little depth. Fairways were thin and some tee boxes were just about grass-less. Needles to say, it needs a lot of work to get back to the beautiful course it used to be.

I use to belong to a private course up north. They would aerate the the greens, top dress them with sand then water them for a few hours. The next day you could hardly tell they had been aerated.

One Arm has been redone, another arm is in process of being redone. You must of been on the last arm to be done?

So, you missed you’re putts right? The greens are lumpy from golfers that don’t fix they’re divots and can’t wake 10 yards from the cart.

I played there on Tuesday. Ashley's greens are very bumpy and slow. The greens on Torri were much different, covered with sand, and quite a bit faster. I've always found Lopez to be well maintained, and expect when the plugs are healed, it will go back to good conditions.

Incompetent
 

I have to agree. Maybe somebody is incompetent?

Important to add date of posting for Golf Course Conditions
 

Please add date of posting in title. This report is three months old but is still displayed on TOTV. Need to update it or take it down. Thanks.

First of all, the number of carts has nothing to do with the condition of the greens.

Secondly, those three million rounds are spread over 32 executive and 12 Championship courses. Nine holes are considered a round on the executive courses. Generally, number of round statistics are based on 18 hole rounds so the number of rounds on executives should be cut in half.

Even with that, the 3 million rounds on our 608 holes is about average for a 12 season golf course.

I've played golf all over the world on some of the finest courses and some of the worst courses. In my humble opinion, the conditions in The Villages are #1 very inconsistent. Courses go from being in decent shape to abysmal over the course of a year.

For the prices that are charged for the championship courses, you can get much better conditions outside The Villages.

I've worked and played at golf courses in other parts of Florida that are very busy in the winter and most were in better shape that The Villages courses.

I'm sorry, but these courses are no more busy than other comparable courses and are in worse shape for courses charging comparable fees.

We played Ashley to Torri yesterday, and the course was in good shape, including the greens. The aeration plugs seem to have fully healed, the bumpiness was gone, and the speed was fine. No complaints.

Played Lopez Monday and the whole course was in great shape. This post is really old and should be taken down .

Really??
 

We played there last week and the greens were as good as any in the Villages. Are you expecting greens such as at the Masters? Not going to happen.

Hummm. I played NL this past Friday. The greens were better than any in the Villages except maybe Tierra. I’m curious, what is your handicap index?