Executive Golf Course Conditions
 

We play the courses between 44 and 466 (but including Saddlebrook and Hawkes Bay).
The greens on almost all of these courses are in extremely very poor condition.
Not only that, as of this date there are now 6 courses that are closed, in that area.
It seems totally counterproductive to have 6 courses closed during what is the "Highest Use Season".
The ability to have decent executive golfing available was one of the specific reasons for locating to T.V.
It now seems to be an after-thought for T.V. management.
Really needs attention from a professional golf course maintenance co.
Also, many golfers are coming from the areas South of 44.

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Matter of fact, a professional course manager was hired several season ago.

Mitch.Leininger@districtgov.org or call 352-674-1885.

I'm sure he's heard it all. I hope he gets the necessary budget to make improvements.

Golfers complaints are now almost exceeding dog poop complaints

Lots of smart retirees here in The Villages. Maybe one of them an come up with a way to process the dog poop into a solution to fix the poor green conditions?

use the dog poop as a fertilizer:spoken:

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Matter of fact, a professional course manager was hired several season ago.

Mitch.Leininger@districtgov.org or call 352-674-1885.

I'm sure he's heard it all. I hope he gets the necessary budget to make improvements.

Is there a problem with south of 44 golfers playing north or are only north of 44 golfers allowed to play up there?

I was wondering that too. Sometimes those DA statements need to be called out.

Coming to The Villages, was a huge step up in his career. He hadn't been a superintendent for very long and never for something approaching the complexity of The Villages.

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If we have a professional, what are his quilifcations, and why are the courses getting worse and being closed? Shouldn't they be getting better???
Also, nothing against more from south of 44 coming to play. All from T.V. can play on any
course, what was the meaning is that more are playing and there are 6 closed courses.

Insights
 

Have you insights to share concerning current conditions - like those Tarpon Boil greens, such as obvious missteps that might've been made due to lack of "complexity understanding"?

Have now sent inquiries to the two email addresses listed in this thread.

There've also been some mentions of an adequate budget in this thread. Is there a "Reader's Digest" summary somewhere of how such budget decisions are made and the sources of the funds for that budget? TIA

DALE....so not true!! Hawkes Bay greens were great. Saddlebrook was not as good, but better than the courses further south

He has a decent resume, growing from one job to another. My concern is he’s been here since 2019, and the courses haven’t improved.

His certificate in turf grass is from Penn State, one of the best in the country.

My solution would be to have 4 Mitches, one for each section of the Villages.
I just hope he is empowered to run the executives

It's hard to image the courses in TV get more play than those in Myrtle Beach and they have always looked great, even in high season.

Disagree on Hawkes Bay being great, played it 3 times in Feb. NOT GREAT in my view, guess we all look at it differently.