[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

If you pay $164 a month for the amenities and you pay $12 a month for the trail fee, you are paying $176 a month. If you play 8 times a month, you would be paying $22 a round for golf. However, the amenity fee pays for more than golf so assume that 50% is for golf and the rest of it is goes to everything else - pools, rec centers, landscaping, walking trails, golf cart trails, you would be paying $11 a round. However, if you play more than twice a week, the cost per round goes down.

SOOOOO, in 2020 I played over 1200 rounds of golf on execs and championships, this would make me WAY AHEAD of the round costs...
Woooohoooo

[Brwne]

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

After paying the required Amenity Fee, add the Trail Fees of about $144 a year and the free golf ain’t so free. If you play two rounds every weekend the “free golf” costs you almost $24 per round on the Executive courses.

I moved here March, 2020 - the only activity available was golf. $120 bought be a slightly used Strata golf set and I started to play. Now averaging 5 Executive rounds a week, the cost of using my cart is 60¢ per round. Regarding the Amenity Fee, if one were to use every activity or facility available, the cost per activity would probably be even less. I wake up every morning, grateful for a pulse and for living here in paradise!

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

The Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline (800.272. 3900) is available around the clock, 365 days a year. Through this free service, specialists and master's-level clinicians offer confidential support and information to people living with dementia, caregivers, families and the public.

So you are disagreeing with someone about the cost of golf — that is your prerogative.

But to use a tragic disease as a tool of mockery is beyond thoughtless. The smug, cold, calculating allusion to the statement from the Alzheimer’s Association is an attempt to be funny, I guess. But not only is it obnoxious, it is cruel. Many here probably know someone who is saying, “The Long Goodbye.” There is nothing funny about it.

Then a bunch of posters line up underneath the post to say, “Thank you.” ???

A line has been crossed. That was not wit. That was completely out of bounds.

Boomer

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by Boomer

So you are disagreeing with someone about the cost of golf — that is your prerogative.

But to use a tragic disease as a tool of mockery is beyond thoughtless. The smug, cold, calculating allusion to the statement from the Alzheimer’s Association is an attempt to be funny, I guess. But not only is it obnoxious, it is cruel. Many here probably know someone who is saying, “The Long Goodbye.” There is nothing funny about it.

Then a bunch of posters line up underneath the post to say, “Thank you.” ???

A line has been crossed. That was not wit. That was completely out of bounds.

Boomer

After 15 years of suffering with this terrible disease Mom passed this year. Now I just have Dad and this terrible disease.

Nothing is free.

[Dirtracer49]

Originally Posted by DaleDivine

SOOOOO, in 2020 I played over 1200 rounds of golf on execs and championships, this would make me WAY AHEAD of the round costs...
Woooohoooo

That is really impressive. Average over 3 rounds per day, every day for a year!
Please share your secret to getting those tee times.

[DrBrutyle109]

Originally Posted by alwann

You'd better have good health insurance. Walking many of the execs., especially in the summer, is an invitation for a heart attack or heat stroke. The execs are not routed with older golfer in mind. Walk the championship courses? Maybe if you're a tri-athlete. I wonder if this was poor course design or marketing strategy.

I have no problem walking. Gee, with your advice maybe I should start riding. Or I could stay in my house and be afraid of everything

[tvbound]

Originally Posted by Boomer

So you are disagreeing with someone about the cost of golf — that is your prerogative.

But to use a tragic disease as a tool of mockery is beyond thoughtless. The smug, cold, calculating allusion to the statement from the Alzheimer’s Association is an attempt to be funny, I guess. But not only is it obnoxious, it is cruel. Many here probably know someone who is saying, “The Long Goodbye.” There is nothing funny about it.

Then a bunch of posters line up underneath the post to say, “Thank you.” ???

A line has been crossed. That was not wit. That was completely out of bounds.

Boomer

Some people are accidentally cruel - while others do it on purpose. History knows the difference.

[photo1902]

Originally Posted by Boomer

So you are disagreeing with someone about the cost of golf — that is your prerogative.

But to use a tragic disease as a tool of mockery is beyond thoughtless. The smug, cold, calculating allusion to the statement from the Alzheimer’s Association is an attempt to be funny, I guess. But not only is it obnoxious, it is cruel. Many here probably know someone who is saying, “The Long Goodbye.” There is nothing funny about it.

Then a bunch of posters line up underneath the post to say, “Thank you.” ???

A line has been crossed. That was not wit. That was completely out of bounds.

Boomer

I couldn't agree more.

[yabbadu]

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

After paying the required Amenity Fee, add the Trail Fees of about $144 a year and the free golf ain’t so free. If you play two rounds every weekend the “free golf” costs you almost $24 per round on the Executive courses.

Go back to grade school for math studies!

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Dirtracer49

That is really impressive. Average over 3 rounds per day, every day for a year!
Please share your secret to getting those tee times.

Wife and I played with a chap who played up to four times a day.
Play as a single, and the starters can fit you into groups not a foursome.

[MyTooR83]

All residents that pay taxes and fees have a right to complain. It is a nice place to live. However, nothing is free here. We pay for the Executive Courses in the amenity fees and now an added trail fee. They all add up to more money out of my pocket.

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Wife and I played with a chap who played up to four times a day.
Play as a single, and the starters can fit you into groups not a foursome.

Easy to get on as a single. Many groups are not always divisible by 4.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by MyTooR83

All residents that pay taxes and fees have a right to complain. It is a nice place to live. However, nothing is free here. We pay for the Executive Courses in the amenity fees and now an added trail fee. They all add up to more money out of my pocket.

Trail fee is not something new.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by DaleDivine

SOOOOO, in 2020 I played over 1200 rounds of golf on execs and championships, this would make me WAY AHEAD of the round costs...
Woooohoooo

Dam, that’s impressive, boarder line addictive.

[MSchad]

Originally Posted by MyTooR83

All residents that pay taxes and fees have a right to complain. It is a nice place to live. However, nothing is free here. We pay for the Executive Courses in the amenity fees and now an added trail fee. They all add up to more money out of my pocket.

Third post and you’ve already crossed over to the dark side.
You don’t have to pay the trail fee. Totally optional. You would be surprised at how many people walk and don’t pay the trail fee. Choice is yours, and walking is good for you.