Polo Events

🐎 Where Polo Is Held

You can watch polo matches at The Villages Polo Club, located at 700 Buena Vista Blvd, The Villages, FL 32162. This is the main venue for organized polo in the community, with stadium seating, fields, concessions, and plenty of space for golf carts and tailgating.

📅 How Often Polo Takes Place

Polo in The Villages runs in seasonal schedules, typically with two main seasons each year:

🏆 Spring Season

  • Runs roughly January through early May (e.g., Jan 30 – May 3).
  • Matches are held most weekends, often Fridays and Sundays.

🍁 Fall Season (when scheduled)

  • Usually runs September through mid-November, with Friday and Sunday matches.

Typical Match Times

  • Fridays: Around 3:00 PM
  • Sundays: Around 1:00 PM
    (Times may vary with the official seasonal schedule.)

These matches happen weekly during the polo season, giving you multiple opportunities each weekend to enjoy the sport.

🎉 What to Expect at a Match

  • Bring lawn chairs, golf carts, food, and drinks to tailgate.
  • Live music is often featured on select Friday evenings after the match.
  • You can attend Polo 101 sessions before Sunday matches to learn the basics of the game.
  • There’s a Champagne divot stomp tradition between plays.
  • Watch video of Professional, Nick Johnson! Hear what he loves about The Villages Polo Club.

CHAMPAGNE DIVOT STOMP

 

  • Purpose: It serves to repair the turf, ensuring a safer playing surface, and acts as a social, halftime break.
  • Activity:Participants, often while holding a glass of champagne, walk the field and use their feet to press chunks of soil and grass back into place.
  • Atmosphere: It is a, fashionable, and communal event where spectators can mingle, take photos, and walk the grounds.
  • Origins: The tradition is closely associated with high-society polo matches, famously depicted in the movie Pretty Woman.


The event frequently includes, best hat contests, and, social, interaction, making it a key, highlight, of, the, Polo, Match, experience.