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Old 01-13-2023, 10:16 PM
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When trying to look for 1-3 day out open slots it just doesn't seem to make sense for everything South of 466 to be lumped into the same category.

Some of these courses can be well over 30 mins by golf cart each way to get to if you're south of 466 and south of the turnpike or vice versa if the course is in the south end, or southeast (Sawgrass area). What's worse, when I do choose the south of 466 option, it seems to offer the northernmost courses first which is very inconvenient if you're at the southern end of TV.

Adding south of 466a and south of 44 as options would make a lot more sense.
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Old 01-13-2023, 10:41 PM
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When trying to look for 1-3 day out open slots it just doesn't seem to make sense for everything South of 466 to be lumped into the same category.

Some of these courses can be well over 30 mins by golf cart each way to get to if you're south of 466 and south of the turnpike or vice versa if the course is in the south end, or southeast (Sawgrass area). What's worse, when I do choose the south of 466 option, it seems to offer the northernmost courses first which is very inconvenient if you're at the southern end of TV.

Adding south of 466a and south of 44 as options would make a lot more sense.
Sounds like you should make a suggestion to the tee time system. I don't know the complexity of the software system, but I suspect they accumulate approved improvements for periodic updates.
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Old 01-14-2023, 06:32 AM
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You can look at open tee times by course on the on line version of the tee time system. Every course is listed.
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Old 01-14-2023, 07:41 AM
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Yes, 30 minutes is a lot! Geesh.
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Yes, the online system is the only way to go.
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Old 01-14-2023, 08:32 AM
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You can also put in only the courses you want, listed by your priority criteria. Put in as many as you want.
I learned this on Thursday at the Good Golf School. Have you taken that class?
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Old 01-14-2023, 08:36 AM
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Can’t you make templates for different sets of courses? I have 2 templates for executives that my wife likes.
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Old 01-14-2023, 09:54 AM
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Just put in for courses you are interested in. This can be done as a string on your phone to speed up process using commas and semicolons
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Old 01-14-2023, 10:24 AM
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When trying to look for 1-3 day out open slots it just doesn't seem to make sense for everything South of 466 to be lumped into the same category.

Some of these courses can be well over 30 mins by golf cart each way to get to if you're south of 466 and south of the turnpike or vice versa if the course is in the south end, or southeast (Sawgrass area). What's worse, when I do choose the south of 466 option, it seems to offer the northernmost courses first which is very inconvenient if you're at the southern end of TV.

Adding south of 466a and south of 44 as options would make a lot more sense.
I've never had an issue being told what courses north or south I can put in for. A lot of people that live in the southern end don't want to play the northern courses and a lot of the north 40 folks don't want to travel south. With the villages at high season you can only increase how many courses and extend the time you want to play to better your chances.
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You can also put in only the courses you want, listed by your priority criteria. Put in as many as you want.
I learned this on Thursday at the Good Golf School. Have you taken that class?
This is what I do now. I enter in the same 9 courses that are closest to me.
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Just put in for courses you are interested in. This can be done as a string on your phone to speed up process using commas and semicolons
Interesting. Can you elaborate on how you do this? Do you select option 4 and then just send 091,092,086 for example?
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Interesting. Can you elaborate on how you do this? Do you select option 4 and then just send 091,092,086 for example?
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When trying to look for 1-3 day out open slots it just doesn't seem to make sense for everything South of 466 to be lumped into the same category.

Some of these courses can be well over 30 mins by golf cart each way to get to if you're south of 466 and south of the turnpike or vice versa if the course is in the south end, or southeast (Sawgrass area). What's worse, when I do choose the south of 466 option, it seems to offer the northernmost courses first which is very inconvenient if you're at the southern end of TV.

Adding south of 466a and south of 44 as options would make a lot more sense.
There are no "North-South" options on the online system, just every course with open spots the day you are wanting to play. It took me less than 15 seconds to scroll from top to bottom to see, for instance, who had openings for Monday. Try online.

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Old 01-15-2023, 06:38 AM
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As you can see, most of the comments to you are for the 4-7 day requests. They don't know that 3 days and under are not a request but are under the reservation part. All courses are arranged from newest to oldest. You don't have to look at all of them, scroll down to where the courses you want start.
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Old 01-15-2023, 07:36 AM
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Use the on line system. You will then be able to pick the courses individually.
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