GC Closed List
 

I tried looking on the TV Golf Course APP. But…

Which TV GCs are closed?

Here’s my list? Any more?

Pelican
Heron
Bacall
Red Fish Run
Bonita
Belmont

All in the same general area…..weird.

El Nino seems to come through on a very narrow path..:smiley:

Go to golfthevillages.com and open the course schedules tab under turf talk. It opens a link with a menus of all courses, both Executive and Championship. Each course shows the course schedule for the next 14 days.

Pelican and Heron have been having problems for several years. They should have been done long before several that have done over the last few years.

What others should be closed due to lack of proper care. They didn't close Tarpon Boil(All greens terrible) because that would close down the entire area of Executive golf courses, even though their holes are as bad as Red Fish Run and Bonita. Played Tarpon Boil last week and the last hole par 4 had a temp Green out in the fairway.IMHO

El Santiago

Bacall was open yesterday!

Bogart is open, Bacall is closed.

Pelican is open, played there Sunday.

Go to
Districtgov dot org
Under quick links select District Weekly Bulletin
Choose the latest date
Scroll through and you will find a section devoted to closed courses
Hope this helps

GC closures
 

El Santiago is now closed also. Pimlico and Turtle mound should be next.

Pelican’s last day open was Sunday…now closed.

El Santiago and El Diablo will close one day per week. It is open now. Maybe the other courses should do this?

If people knew what The Villages ground keepers have to accomplish each and every day, and what can change every day. Think about that!

They announced long term closing of Pelican and Bacall on Monday.

All executive courses close 2x a month a day

https://www.golfthevillages.com/exec...20closures.pdf

I guess they have to collect the few thousand balls in the weeds.

Pimlico is about to be added to the list. Played there two days ago and the greenskeeper or superintendent has apparently surrendered and will soon be shutting the course down, stripping and re-sodding or re-seeding the greens. The greens were completely unplayable. The course will be shut down all summer.

Golf course issues, potential solution???
 

Between 44 north to 466 ( including Saddlebrook and Hawkes Bay ) there are 25 Executive
courses. (7 are now closed, with others have almost unplayable greens). South of 44 only 5 now open ( excluding Putt-putt ).
What about having some of the Championship courses temporarily reclassified as executive
while hopefully something is done to repair those executives that are closed??
But, this would only benefit the golfers, not "The Family"!!
Courses south of 44 MUST be designed by the developers B/4 the housing infrastructure
is put in, but unfortunately the executive courses appear to be an after-thought, total concern seems to be selling home sights above all else, sarcastic YES!! So be it.

I am a Priority (now called Enhanced) member and almost always put in a request for golf. Out of curiosity, I attempted to book a party of four today (Friday) on an Executive course for this Sunday. Between the hours of 8 and 4 there were eight openings and all were at Amberwood. There were pages and pages of pitch and putts to wade through. I propose that The Villages Golf change the format of their online site. Currently, the choices are Championship and Executive. Why not add a third and call it Pitch & Putts? It would make the search far quicker. It would also make clear that a pitch & putt is NOT an Executive course. However, the reason The Villages Golf would likely never make this change is it would expose the dearth of Championship and Executive courses there are to handle the tens of thousands of new homes being built. With all of the complaints, which are certainly justified, it’s time that the developers pay attention and address this issue. News travels far and fast.

The tee time system may very well be legacy software that is hard (i.e. expensive) to modify to add another class of courses. Obviously they can add new courses to the existing two classes; championship and executive. Adding the pitch and putts to the executives was probably the easiest thing to do. I can’t see a lot of motivation for them to attempt the change you suggested.

For sure they won't find a good ball at Pelican!