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.