Las Vegas Golf Courses Overseeding

Fall is hear and us in the south-west area of the United States finally have found that relief from the ever so disheartening summer days that seem to haunt southern Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Many people look to escape to the south-west during the winter, but believe me we are all looking to escape to the Midwest when July hits. Last summer hear in Las Vegas, the hottest day we faced down, man vs. Mother Nature, was 119 degrees. That is so daunting I have no idea nobody was immediately cooked like a steak upon taking one step outside the door.

As far as golf goes, you could find deals as low as $19.00 on some of the best courses in the west. However, the problem is, you are golfing in temperatures that average around 115 degrees in the shade. There have been many recorded cases of people feinting from heat exhaustion, others who suffer from heat strokes, dehydration and whatever else comes with treacherous temperatures that rival Death Valley on any given day. There are those die hard golfers who can’t resist temptation and take the risk. More often than not they turn out to be fine, just extremely exhausted from battling the golf course while their body combats too keep cool and prevent from the brain getting fried.

When salvation finally reaches the City of Sin in around September, early October and it becomes prime golfing time, a lot of golf courses have the audacity to start over-seeding the whole entire course. That is in comparison to sitting a kid outside under the shade for two hours saying if he is a good boy or girl you will get an ice cream when it is all said and done and he behaves himself. Well, after the two hour passes the Ice Cream Man comes around the neighborhood you buy one of those orange push pops because, really, what is better than an orange push pop? You go three feet within the kid, you commence to unwrap the ice cream and you devour it right in front of his face.

The spoils of surviving the dreaded summer days, are finally hear and you can enjoy yourself outside and play your favorite game you absolutely love to play any day out of the year, than these course owners/managers  decide to close down for three months and take away the most opportune time to play a gentlemen’s sport. Something I will never get in this world.

Besides taking away golfers favorite days out of the year, you would not believe how much these golf courses take out of their own pockets. To over-seed one golf course it cost’s over $300,000, that is 1319 TaylorMade Rocketballz Drivers, 6256 Titleist Pro V1X Golf Balls, that is 160 2013 U.S. Open Golf Tickets for the whole weekend. Now that, to me, is absolutely senseless. Besides paying that $300,000 imagine how much money they are losing to either discounted green fees or completely shutting down the doors until their “Prissy Pristine” grass grows.

I have heard conversations between Club Owners/Managers and people around the golf shop, where most managers disagree completely with over-seeding.  They think they should just let the grass be, take care of it as necessary and be done with it. That way they don’t lose profit, don’t spend over a quarter of a million dollars on the grass and the most important thing, so golfers can play in the most pleasurable days we have here down in the South West.

I am not sure about you, but I think to over-seed a course is the way of self-sabotage. If anybody out there could please tell me why it is necessary to over-seed please, e-mail me.

Adjustable Drivers - - Fraud/Fake/Gimmick@!

Fall calls for many changes around the country; Trees transitioning from being full of life and vibrant green into the dormant brown prepping for the sure cold winter that lies ahead. The kids are back in school, busy with homework, new friends so their always gone and can never find the time to call. In the world of golf we find the manufacturers that supply us with the tools needed to dissect our favorite local golf course upgrading, changing, removing and adding new features, models and incorporating new innovations that some claim will change the face of golf as we know it.

Ever since the hybrids were invented, I do not think any new innovations, technologies or designs will cut your handicap by two. Still, these companies are wheeling and dealing claiming the next big thing, who knows maybe they are right.

A case in point is adjustable technology. I am sure if you are even a once a month golfer, golfing to escape the home life, work life or whichever life seems to haunt you over the days, you have heard of the TaylorMade Rocketballz driver.

When this bad boy came out with its enticing, bright color scheme, it instantly became the hottest driver, set of irons and fairway woods any one could have. All these clubs besides the irons were available with an adjustable hosel. The tuning capabilities claimed to give more distance to the ball because you can adjust the ball trajectory to your liking.

Absolutely makes sense to me,well, kind of. Here we stand almost a year later; TaylorMade has ceased the manufacturing of drivers with adjustable hosels. It makes me wonder how necessary adjustable technology really is. TaylorMade claims you can still get the same distance with or without the accommodating piece. Besides making that huge claim like every other manufacturer, they even dropped the price on the driver.

Don’t get me wrong, the TaylorMade Rocketballz driver is a great, solid golf club, but is adjustable technology just a gimmick to get people excited about paying more money for a club? Is it just a scam to squeeze that extra $70.00 out of you? Did they make us believe that adjustable technology is the way of the future just so they can up charge us and raise quarterly profits?

One thing that these manufacturers do know is, that we consumers of golf products will do just about anything to improve our game. We will through in that $200.00 Fujikura Blur shaft thinking this with its technological flex point design will give us that +20 yards on our long drives that we are all looking for.

I really don’t think that spending all this extra money, fine tuning our swing weights to that “ideal” swing weight we over hear people talking about on the course, will help us. Like I said before, there has been nothing game changing since the hybrids has been incorporated into golf. Hybrids make it easier to hit instead of your long irons, allotting more yardage, more forgiveness and better control. Adjustable technology just gives us a head ache and an excuse when the ball doesn't do what we wanted it to do. I am not sure about you, but I would rather find an excuse for free versus paying that extra money to do so for me.

If you really insist on paying all this money for these fine tuning options, go get yourself a pro and buy everything he is selling. His advice may not be tangible, but you might actually start getting those long distance driver swings going straight. For the longest time I hooked the ball way left swinging as a "righty" until I threw my hands in the air and I sought out professional advice. Fortunately the pros two cents were free since I have the advantage of working at a golf shop, but do yourself the favor and pay that one-time fee instead of paying for that B.S. these companies put out year, after year, after year.