Number of executive courses south of 44
 

Just a bit of info to you new home buyers coming south of 44. They have not built any free to play executive courses near you new house since 2019. If you do not include the little pitch and puts, there are 45 holes available (Lowlands, Red Fox, Gray Fox, Longleaf and Loblolly) that are reasonably close. Since 2017 there have been over 13,000 new homes sold. If you buy in St. Catherine those above mentioned courses are the only close executive courses available. Unless you want to do the 1 hour golf cart ride to the "north" side. It may be time to remind the sales people that you really can't sell them as a golf community if you can never get a tee time close to your new home! They built a championship course down this way, but I pay $165 per month to play executive courses for "free". Done with the rant just a heads up!

Good thing you're not a Golfbum.

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We have no problems getting tee times. I can also be at Mangrove in 30 minutes from my house in DeSoto.

If you watch GoldWingNut's videos, you'd see that more executive courses are coming...

I know it doesn't help "now", but it will down the road...

And that's one of the reasons we bought a resale in Osceola Hills. Still a newer home (only 4-5 years old), but close to many, many, executive and championship courses...

Soon we will be the center of TV...

To me 30 minutes in a golf cart is TOO long. TV is/was a golfing community and they are not but building enough golf courses for the newer residents.

I think the areas South of 44 are being built with a different recreational agenda in mind i.e. not just a golf community but an outdoor activity/health oriented community...golf is secondary. I don't think this is going to change much in the immediate future so if you want more access to golf, you have to buy a used house North of 44. Also the area North of the highway from 470 all the way to Warm Springs Blvd appears to only have 1 championship course and that "putting" course(Blah). Buyers beware.

There will be an exec course on the other side of the turnpike from Southern Oaks championship course to start, after the bridge is finished. Then others to follow. Southern Oaks was $73 one morning so avoiding it for now.

And this is just being figured out now? There is as much golf now in the little area that makes up the Nancy Lopez area, including 27 holes of Championship golf and four nice Executives (and they are building a miniature golf course at the new First Responders Rec area), than there is in the entire area south of 44. Bottom line, the north area is a retirement golfing community, the new southern area is a retirement community that happens to have a little golf available. Did ya notice in the golf magazine included in the daily sun a couple days ago that Southern Oaks is called a Golf Club, and the other 12 Championship courses are called Country Clubs? As far a golf goes, the new business model has changed significantly.

Wife and I walk all Execs.
We play where ever booking system sends us.
Our rule is.
Golf cart travel up to 30-40 minutes away.
Any longer journey, take car.
Works for us.

You actually misquote the cost of the exec courses/month. that is the amenity fee which includes the swimming pools(most all throughout TV....care of the bathrooms, golf courses amongst any repairs to rec centers, billiard tables...the list goes on...if you're going to rant(and there's nothing wrong with a good rant), but at least include all the facts.

the rant is very misleading. is it just you and your wife? do you invite guests(any group with a guest gets a tee time after all groups without a guest)? what time slots are you putting in for? even traveling 30 to 40 minutes by cart is still closer than most people who play golf elsewhere go that far by car.

30 minutes is half as long as an hour.

If you don’t like the southern area, buy a house in the northern part. Problem solved. Please stop bashing the southern area. It is not going away.

Someone here looked at the history and found the rooftops per hole of golf has remained relatively constant.

Plenty of holes completed/in work and planned south of 44.

To me 30 minutes is way to far. I don't play anything further than 15 minutes. I have 19 executives and 7 Championship within that time frame.

15 minutes 7 champs??

The “someone” referred to in the above post is completely clueless!