Starting in June, many desert courses reduced their prices drastically for a round of golf. Now, sometimes that still means $100 for a round, but that's perhaps down from $250 or more for an in ...

From car models being named after local golf courses to the imprint Arnold Palmer left on the desert, the truth of these stories can often get lost in the legend. So it is with Marx’ naked round.

Trilogy won’t count as a new course opening, just as a course revived from the dead. But in the last two decades in the desert, some golf courses have disappeared that won’t be golf courses ...

Firecliff Course, Desert Willow Golf Resort, Palm Desert Municipal courses in the desert – golf courses owned by cities – are certainly different than the prototypical munis around the country ...

It makes you feel better.” The two courses at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells – first the Mountain Course in 1981 and later the Desert Course – were Fazio’s first layouts in the desert.

Bermuda turns dormant and brown in the winter temperatures in the desert, but the triple-digit heat of the summer kills the cool-weather grasses. To keep courses green, they must overseed in the fall.

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.

With so many desert golf courses ranked by GolfWeek among the top 30 public-access courses in the state, there are plenty of strong layouts to keep a golfer happy in a desert summer.

With so many desert golf courses ranked by GolfWeek among the top 30 public-access courses in the state, there are plenty of strong layouts to keep a golfer happy in a desert summer.