Golf Timeshares?

[rockedge Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rockedge]

Are there any Fl resorts that give you golf course priveleges when you exchange into them?

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Orange Lake Country Club has a great golf coarse. I beieve you get a nice discount if you exchange there.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

If there were any Orlando TS with golf privileges, I think I would know about them, and I don't.

When we stay at OL, we golf elsewhere. The last time I golfed there it was because my nephew took a lesson (for a fee) and the lesson included a free round on the Legends Course. So our whole crew took the breakfast tour so my BIL and I could get 1/2 price golf so we could play with my nephew.

It was the most humiliating tour we have ever been on, even worse than our worst at Westgate. Then when we played golf they charged our nephew $47.50 for his cart fee!

That was two stays ago. This past Christmas week we golf elsewhere, through a discount program for $15-20 per round, and I golf with efloridagolf for around $30 a round.
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An owner on Sanibel (June/Sandcastles) has posted that her resort has golf privileges on the Sanibel course.
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Ones I don't know the details of, but you might look into are Resort at World Golf Village in St. Augustine and Sheraton PGA Vacation Resort in Port St. Lucie.
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If you ever come to Missouri or AR, we have some resorts with golf privileges. Table Rock Landing at Holiday Island, AR, has unlimited free golf during your week and year-round golf memberships for TS owners for under $500!

The list of Missouri and AR TSs with golf courses is pretty extensive.

[rapmarks Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close rapmarks]

JLB you are totally correct about Orange Lake. It is twice as much to golf there as on comparable courses, we didn't do it except for one round.

No special rate at World Golf Villages. It was actually $120 a round in October , which is the off season, when we stayed there.

The best deal we found was at Lehigh Resort, two golf outings a week at a special rate that was much lower than any where else in the area and a weekly pakage deal, but I am not sure that is still available.

[rockedge Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rockedge]

Thanks for the info, If anyone else has any insight it would be great. I do know the manor club in VA has priviledges for some of their members.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

The best deal, and companionship, we have found in SW FL in January is at Country Creek, but I've heard they don't always have greens!

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

2nd that statement by Jim ~~

We have found in SW FL in January is at Country Creek, but I've heard they don't always have greens!

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Conch Man, In case you don't know Country Creek is closed til Oct 1st for entirely new greens (whicvh will be 50% larger and have champion grass), new tees, and better fairways. so when we gt back in late October, you all better come out for some golf with us.

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Since we are talking golf, a couple of issues have surfaced here at home. Older employees, like myself, have played in mens' league and it has never been an issue.

This summer we have some high school, competitive scratch golfers working in the cart shed. They started playing in the mens' league three weeks ago. The old guys do not appreciate the kids hitting 280 yard drives up behind them when they are on the greens putting. I know because I was riding with the chairman of the POA Finance Committee and we were the ones putting the first time it happened.

This past week the pro teamed the employees together--me, an older pro shop employee, and three of the kids, in a fivesome. The kids all know what's up, that the older members don't want them playing in mens' league, because they are too good. I mentioned that on the first tee, that by teaming us up we could get the axe if we did well. The pro shop guy said that was ridiculous.

I did my part to not piss anyone off by shooting 90. The others were not so discrete and the team placed second.

The next day at work one of the kids told me that the biggest, meanest member told him afterwards that kids and employees will not be playing in mens' league any more.

The kids totally do not understand the perk they have in getting golf. It is a prestigious private club and they hang out on the course, on the range, on the putting green, all the time when they are not working. They do not know how to put a limit on their perk. How many $90 rounds of golf should one person get a week for free at a private club? How many buckets of balls should they hit on the range a day, that someone has to be paid to pick up?

They just don' get it and are putting the pro and the rest of us at risk of losing that perk altogether. We are all considered equal and are not allowed to tell the kids what to do. So, most of the time they don't do much, workwise. A further complication is that two of them are from member families, and there is a POA policy against members working for the POA. One of the 16-year-ods pulls the member card on us all the time, when he should be thinking like an employee. Instead of letting a cart go to a paying player waiting for one, for instance, he will take it himself, and a couple more for his buddies, and go play golf.

I didn't work today, but they hosted the Branson Invitational, 240 players with two shotgun starts. Not much fun for the employees!

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

Hello RaP ~~ Just had surgery done on my left knee yesterday so by October I should be ready ~~ Thanks for the info on the course much appreciated & it seems the course is gonna be lots better to play on ~~


Jim ~~ Know what ya say ~~ been workin the last 13 years at golf courses of private, public & so on ~~ There is no right answer for explantation for you post ~~ Ya just have to bear it & continue on with the best way to play golf where ya work at ~~ Its a bummer most of the time but you do find other ways of playin golf ~~