If there is water there are gators. Including open invite to them to your pool, should you build one.

The word is "ad nauseam" and it's getting nauseating thinking about how overpriced some properties are. As a golfer, I wouldn't want to live directly on a golf course unless my view was separated by a good size lake. You lack privacy and it's dangerous as balls are regularly misdirected onto your lanai. Wearing a bike helmet while resting on a lounge chair could be stressful. A man-made lake can easily be transformed into a retention pond.

Nonetheless, your home is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

Shiver me timbers
 

aye, aye ,

As golfer
 

As a golfer, is any lot truly safe? Just asking.

A view will always attract more people, hence a higher price IMO. At our age, why not go for what you love and not worry so much about what the resale value might be! Good luck with getting what you want.

I live on a small lake at my house is selling for 60 $70,000 more than one across the street. Both phones are similar.

Views are worth every penny
 

We bought a lot on a championship golf course with a water view 20 years ago. Best thing we ever did and worth every penny. Never have seen a gator, only 2x had a ball land in our backyard, mowing is in the late mornings or early afternoons on the course on days the course is closed, it's closed 2 days a week. Love the privacy, still love the view and are amazed it's ours, even after 20 plus years, the view still takes our breath away. Homes on the course seldom go for sale and when they do they sell within a few days for $300,000 and much more than interior lots and even the lots across the street who have a view of the course between the houses.
I don't know about executive courses, but championship course homes have a lot of privacy and we would buy it again in a heartbeat, it was well worth the upcharge.

Do you really want golf carts and people going by your backyard every 15 minutes every day? No privacy. I would suggest finding a lot that backed up to the wooded preserve areas. Those are beautiful.

My house is on the green. Since they are putting I’ve only had 2 balls in my yard ever.
When I’m inside it’s very entertaining to watch my golfers.
I have reflective film on my window so I can see out but they can’t see in.
If I’m outside the golfers wave or we joke around.
It wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I love it.

If you don't mind living in a house that looks out at someone else's backyard, then it is not worth it. I enjoy having a spot where I can sit and connect with nature, even if the house next door is just 15 feet away. It is a matter of out of sight, out of mind. I don't know what the premium is to the house value in dollars, but to me, it is a home to live in and not an investment.

Have our Home on a retention pond. Linden. Was well worth the price of the lot. Fantastic Sunset views. Would not want a Golf Course lot. Too much cart noise.

The are no "championship golf courses" in The Villages, that are closed 2 days a week, nor is there a Championship Golf Course in the USA, that mows the grass in the "late mornings or early afternoons".

i was told 3 hours to decide

You get more than the view
 

The additional expense of a golf course view will be recovered when you or your heirs sell the house. However, living with a view of a golf course may not be all you hoped for. You will have the noise from mowers and golf carts; the occasional
cursing by players; and, the occasional golf ball hitting your lanai or landing in your yard (more than occasional if you chose a poor location).

The larger problem involves a very poor decision by The Villages in the placement of the cart paths on the golf courses. For some reason known only to the designers, the cart paths have been laid on the side of the fairways closest to the houses. I swear there are houses that I feel I could reach out and touch as I pass by them in my cart. Several times I have said "hello" to people having breakfast in their lanai as I pass by or, even worse, when I am out of the cart and looking for a golf ball. You will find this exists on every course in The Villages. In the older areas, I have noticed that many, if not most, of the lanais have been enclosed and the screening replaced. While this may reduce the noise of the passing carts, it still means that you will have golfers looking into your living quarters from a distance as short as 15'.

If you are spending the extra money for a "view" lot, I recommend you look at those with a view of water or a preserve and not a bunch of old men with beer bellies, dressed in funny looking clothes, and poking in your plants looking for a little white ball.

Only past the green and before the next tee box.

I live on a course now. In front of the forwarded tee box. Still get balls in the yard (but not a lot). The dog has an infinite supply of balls to play with.