GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this GOLF.com series, we’ll unlock ...

The line was tossed out as if the person was saying the sun shines during the day or it rises in the east and sets in the west. Requiring someone to be in the golf business these days is like ...

About 120, many of them shoulder to shoulder across the desert floor, complete with decorative ponds, fountains and streams. It’s one of the highest concentrations of golf courses in the world.

What is the next desert golf course that will close? Note the position from which the question was posed. Not “Do you think more desert courses will close?” or “Is it possible that more ...

So we pushed so hard to publicize it, and the timing was perfect.” Like golf courses throughout the desert and across the country, The Lights has benefitted from a surge in golf that was ...

When you think of Arizona golf, you’re likely thinking of desert-lined fairways that present a demanding style of target golf. And while The Grand Canyon State has plenty of great desert courses ...

For golf courses, resorts and lush communities like Lake Mirage in Rancho Mirage, water is the lifeblood of the desert oasis aesthetic that has long made the area attractive to retirees and ...

“This golf course ... in Palm Desert. If you need a place to escape the winter, then this is the place with great accommodations and restaurants surrounded by two nice golf courses.

That's the daily water use of about 3,000 households. Also, desert golf courses often play by different rules. In Nevada, they were exempt from the state's 2021 law banning nonfunctional grass.

For the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, it took planning and water. “The desert golf courses are actually the most efficient users of water out of necessity,” a U.S.G.A. official said.