“The people who don't like it are generally the non-golfers who are homeowners"

Larry Bohannan checks in with some of the Palm Springs area courses only doing limited overseedings, letting their roughs remain dormant in an effort to save resources. While we hear it's golfers who don't tolerate green, this caught my eye since it possibly speaks to golfers not deserving all of the blame in the chase for costly green:

“Some people like the look, some don't,” said Ben Dobbs, director of golf at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Mission Hills has done the limited overseed on its Pete Dye Course for years and will experiment with the concept on two holes of its Arnold Palmer Course this season. The experiment is as much to see how homeowners feel about the different look as it is about turf conditions.

“On the Pete Dye, I think we have been doing it so long, (the homeowners) are conditioned to it,” Dobbs said. “The homes at the Pete Dye sit a little back. The homes at the Palmer course (are) right up on the course.”

“The people who don't like it are generally the non-golfers who are homeowners,” said Taylor, whose course moved to the tees, greens and fairways concept last winter. “They don't understand why the golf course is dead. The key I think we have learned, is to have clear, precise, defined lines. In other words, if the hole has hills on it, don't have half the hill (green) and half the hill not.”