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 ...

More players means golf courses have an opportunity to charge more for their product. Green fees were up a year ago, and they will go up again at some facilities in the coming months.

My trip to Scottsdale, Arizona – where desert golf is king –was a week I savored. Desert golf is fun, beautiful, and well-suited to a moderately OK golfer like me.

So yes, in an answer to the man’s question, golf does have a future. It’s a future it must fight for, and there will be some battles lost with fewer courses and perhaps fewer players. But it ...

There are about 120 golf courses in the Coachella Valley, and they account for 18% of the area’s water use. A single course can consume as much as 1 million gallons a day.

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.

That’s par for some desert golf courses,” column, Oct. 9) Our water usage has shrunk by 62%, saving more than 919,000 gallons of water and about $6,000 in Los Angeles Department of Water and ...

Larry Bohannan is the golf writer for The Desert Sun. You can contact him at (760) 778-4633 or at larry.bohannan@desertsun.com. Follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at @larry_bohannan.

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The 14 golf courses in Washington County, including four owned by the city of St. George, attract nearly 600,000 visitors a year, generating $130 million dollars annually, according to Cowan.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t have come at a better time for The Lights at Indio Golf Course in the spring of 2020. “We got lucky, because at the time COVID ...