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 ...

See No. 5 above. Rio Secco was one of Vegas’ first mega-courses, and it remains a top-10 play. Visiting players go all aflutter over “desert-target golf” — hitting from patch of green to ...

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 ...

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 ...

home to this week’s newly renamed American Express, has no shortage of great golf options. Help the Average Joe/Jane out — what are your top two public courses to play in the Palm Desert area?

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.

The desert rule is a local rule, not mentioned in the United States Golf Association’s Rules of Golf. Which means that it is up to the golf course to implement the rule.