[Mrmean58]

Originally Posted by John Mayes

Actually, you can find it in @golfthevillages.com. Under the tab, “Golfing in The Villages”, scroll down until you see “Golfing in The Villages Brochure”. I think it’s spelled out on pages 14 and 15. Those were the rules prior to COVID but were relaxed when the virus started ramping up. The new rules are slightly less restrictive than the pre-virus rules.

That's correct and in all honesty we should have gone back to the two cart rule a year or two ago. All courses of campus did. Hell even in CA they were doing two carts before they ended their shutdown. And yes they have smokers and God knows they have strangers.

[MidWestIA]

This is a minor deal and yes true I played yesterday - why make it a big deal or just play exec courses

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by UpNorth

Don't blame the cart. Blame the driver who was stupid enough to not have enough charge in his cart to go out that day. Blame the gas cart driver who runs out of gas as well.

Rarely does one see a gas cart sitting on the side of the cart path, due to lack of gas. Our clutch went out on ours, plenty of gas, just not a working clutch. Even the electrics are few and far between on side of cart path, but some on the new carts mileage is only 40 miles, wouldn’t make a tee time far away to play championship

[bowlingal]

Lottoguy....you forgot....except the par 4"s

[WingedFoot78]

Those were the rules prior to the pandemic.

[nhkim]

Originally Posted by kansasr

Such third world problems we have to put up here in The Villages

The term is "first world problems."

[hrdcorpsmarine]

YEA, about time. And while we’re in this discussion, EXIT THE FAIRWAY AT THE EXIT BEACON!!!

[ehonour]

Very few courses I've played—anywhere—allow more than two carts per group. It has to do with wear and tear on the course. You can easily see that wear and tear as you play; just look at any place where the carts routinely leave or enter the concrete cart path.

The explicit rules in the Villages Good Golf Guide are clear: no more than two carts per group. "If three golf cars are necessary," only two carts are allowed onto the fairway. They get to make the rules. We get to live within the rules, for the benefit of all.

[phousel]

Originally Posted by Lottoguy

Everybody on the executive courses stay on the concrete path. The only ones that stray have the handicap placard on their cart allowing them to go on the grass.

Par 4 holes allow riding on the fairways.

[PAB51]

Originally Posted by BamaBoy451

Most of the Championship courses have the 2 cart rule but at most some allow three. It would be curious what the liability is if you were forced to ride in a stranger's cart and he did something stupid and got you hurt. The executive courses shouldn't be a problem since most are all par three's and there is no reason to deviate from the cart path even the boneheads that drive around a puddle on the cart path creating ruts in the mud. During the Covid period using 4 carts on average spread up our round by 8 to 10 minutes which cut down the jack jawing of double occupied carts.

An accident did happen to a friend who had to ride w an elderly golfer when he rode up on a hill, turned & slid into sand trap. The cart was on its side. The elderly man was injured, & my friend’s ankle was severely bruised.

[Mrfriendly]

Originally Posted by Laker14

I wasn't feeling good the other day and the starter at Palmer let me take a 3rd cart, with the proviso that we only had 2 in the fairway at a time, which we pretty much followed. We might have slipped up a couple of times, just not paying attention.
I wonder if 4 people in 4 carts really put that much more wear and tear on the grass than 4 people in 2 carts, when you consider all of the back and forth that happens when one player hits it left, and the cart partner hits it right, and the cart is going back and forth across the fairway, as opposed to using two different carts, and each player heading straight for his own ball, hopefully staying on the cart path and rough as long as possible.

You could actually do a scientific experiment using an exercise type app like “Map my ride” which when done with Golf and used in each golf cart, would track and show exactly your location movements through the whole round.
The next time you play, do it with two people in a cart and see the difference.

[txfan]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Rarely does one see a gas cart sitting on the side of the cart path, due to lack of gas. Our clutch went out on ours, plenty of gas, just not a working clutch. Even the electrics are few and far between on side of cart path, but some on the new carts mileage is only 40 miles, wouldn’t make a tee time far away to play championship

Electric is the only way to go and all that should be allowed on golf courses.

They're quieter so as not to disturb other golfers and environmentally friendly.

Fully charged overnight and I've driven 15.5 miles each way to Lopez, and played 18 holes with side stop at Sumter on the way home. That was a 45-mile day.

I don't bad-mouth gas carts. It's just an individual choice of household.

Why people get so passionate about it is perplexing.

And these courses are not in good enough shape to worry about 1-4 carts on the course. Two carts doesn't speed up play.

"Ready golf" speeds up play and picking up "in the leather" speeds up play.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Lottoguy

Everybody on the executive courses stay on the concrete path. The only ones that stray have the handicap placard on their cart allowing them to go on the grass.

Unless it's a Par 4 or the rare Par 5. On those holes carts are allowed to leave the cart trail.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Laker14

I wasn't feeling good the other day and the starter at Palmer let me take a 3rd cart, with the proviso that we only had 2 in the fairway at a time, which we pretty much followed. We might have slipped up a couple of times, just not paying attention.
I wonder if 4 people in 4 carts really put that much more wear and tear on the grass than 4 people in 2 carts, when you consider all of the back and forth that happens when one player hits it left, and the cart partner hits it right, and the cart is going back and forth across the fairway, as opposed to using two different carts, and each player heading straight for his own ball, hopefully staying on the cart path and rough as long as possible.

I agree. I'd like to see a study as to how many miles a cart puts on with two players in it versus two carts with one player each. I'll bet the difference would be minimal, especially if the 90 degree rule was adhered to.

[DonH57]

Originally Posted by txfan

Electric is the only way to go and all that should be allowed on golf courses.

They're quieter so as not to disturb other golfers and environmentally friendly.

Fully charged overnight and I've driven 15.5 miles each way to Lopez, and played 18 holes with side stop at Sumter on the way home. That was a 45-mile day.

I don't bad-mouth gas carts. It's just an individual choice of household.

Why people get so passionate about it is perplexing.

And these courses are not in good enough shape to worry about 1-4 carts on the course. Two carts doesn't speed up play.

"Ready golf" speeds up play and picking up "in the leather" speeds up play.

I agree. As much as I personally would never by an electric golf cart I don't bad mouth those that choose to. Most of the courses here are not in that great of shape anyway and it has nothing to do with the number of carts. Two carts versus four carts definately does not speed up play. If the cart operators observed the rules of fairway traffic there wouldn't have to be an argument as with divot and ball mark repairs and raking of the bunkers.