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re: Could a 9 hole par 3/pitch and putt course survive in BR?
Posted on 7/16/24 at 9:20 am to Not Cooper
Posted on 7/16/24 at 9:20 am to Not Cooper
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Any thoughts/experiences?
I live in The Villages. We have 14 championship venues. 10 have 27 holes. 4 are 18 holes. We have about 45 “executive courses”. They are all 9 holes. Some are all par 3’s. Most have one or two par4’s. We also have 4 or 5 pitch and putts and a few putting courses with real greens and holes that are 20 to 40 yards long.
The executive courses are free to play. The cost is covered with your amenity fee. These courses work because they are real golf with traps, water hazards, and OB’s.
I am in 2 leagues and play championship golf courses 4 times per week. I use the executive courses to work on things in real settings. I play the green tees if I want to work on wedges. I play gold tees to work on short to medium irons. I play the black tees for 170 to 200 yard shots.
The neighborhood executive course model could work anywhere and would be a great selling point for the neighborhood What they thought when they started this plan was that it would attract golfers. What they found was that it attracts golfers AND people that want to start playing golf. The cost and easy access makes it work for both groups.
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Posted on 7/16/24 at 9:35 am to Allyn McKeen
Follow up on The Villages.
Picture is guys on the gold tee about 150. The green tee ahead is about 100. The black tee is not pictured but about 190. You can play any of the exec's, but most people stay with the 4 or 5 courses within a 10-minute cart ride from their house.
Putting course with dogleg.
Picture is guys on the gold tee about 150. The green tee ahead is about 100. The black tee is not pictured but about 190. You can play any of the exec's, but most people stay with the 4 or 5 courses within a 10-minute cart ride from their house.
Putting course with dogleg.
Posted on 7/16/24 at 10:21 am to Allyn McKeen
If you need a viagra or cialis plug lmk.
Posted on 7/16/24 at 11:05 am to Not Cooper
Really was hoping Sherwood/Legacy would open 9 hole par 3 course
Posted on 7/16/24 at 11:21 am to dek81572
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It will also have synthetic greens
Didn't realize the greens would too. Slightly disappointing. Never hit full shots into synthetic greens so I'm not sure how they react. But either way, I'm excited about it.
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Sounds like it will be a fun place but who knows, Shreveport/Bossier don't support anything worth a damn, probably go out of business in a few years.
Hopefully not. But, if there's ever a place for a top golf type place to go out of business, it's Shreveport/Bossier. The Boardwalk is a ghost town. Though Covid really did a number on it.
Curious how much they'll end up charging for the par 3 course.Hopefully it's on the semi reasonable side. It'd be nice to get some practice in without having to pay for a $50+ green fee. The course maintenance shouldn't be very costly.
Tell your brother in law that I'm kind of salty he bought up the land where I would go ride my dirt bike when I wanted to just hit the throttle every now and then. I could get my dirt bike or four wheeler down to the dunes on the red river from there and get out on the gravel pit property to ride on the back side of it. A lot of good memories there as a kid. Still own a few acres just north of the property they built on that same side of the levee that I'm sure people will be buying up before too long if that keeps growing.
Posted on 7/16/24 at 6:57 pm to Not Cooper
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Could a 9 hole par 3/pitch and putt course survive in BR?
Yes and LSU should build one when the year down the course to build the PMAC
Posted on 7/16/24 at 8:58 pm to NickyT
Sherwood/ Legacy is the best option for this to work. The infrastructure and land is already in place. The location is mehhh but Field of Dreams!
Posted on 7/17/24 at 7:17 am to BMoney
Wondering what a 100% synthetic course would cost to build? Once built, minimum upkeep I would think.
Posted on 7/17/24 at 7:36 am to BMoney
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but it was just the same 50 yard shot to a tiny green over and over.
You didn't creative enough then. I'd always stand in one corner (when it was empty) and I'd have 9 different distances.
Also, I'd love for LSU to keep the driving range and put a little 9 holer around the LSU course "for the students" when they finally shut it down for the new arena.
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