[William_G]

Hard to quantify it's affect on the game of golf, but a 4 month golf season can't be conducive to growing the game??

Is more golf be played in areas where the season does not end even if people don't live there?

thanks

[PCCraig]

Hard to quantify it's affect on the game of golf, but a 4 month golf season can't be conducive to growing the game??

Is more golf be played in areas where the season does not end even if people don't live there?

thanks

Minnesota has the highest number of golfers per capita  in the US and only a 6 month season ( May through October ) usually.

[Brent Carlson]

Here in the Northwest it's a pretty short season.  True good weather is from July 4th until mid September.  Today it's raining cats and dogs.  

[William_G]

yes the Minnesotans are golf fanatics, my friends there are always talking about golf, yet what if they played year round in their own zip code?

in the NW we golf year round even though it rains with an occasional snow...that's how Portland get's it's reputation for outdoor gear

[Bob_Huntley]

Barrow, Alaska

Bob

[William_G]

thanks Bob, but how bout the lower 48...I know MPCC is year round, which is very nice...the Dunes can get pretty wet, but the Shore has the sand cap 

[Sam Morrow]

Here in the Northwest it's a pretty short season.  True good weather is from July 4th until mid September.  Today it's raining cats and dogs.  

That's it? Seriously.

[William_G]

Here in the Northwest it's a pretty short season.  True good weather is from July 4th until mid September.  Today it's raining cats and dogs.  

That's it? Seriously.

Here in the NW where we live....we golf year round, with the most exceptional weather from July thru October...and in Seattle today they are getting 3-5 inches of rain...but you could play golf tomorrow at CB

Brent is only referring to the best weather, not the "Golf Season"

Just saying that some areas of the country have the courses closed after the first week of October and don't reopen until the end of May...

[Sam Morrow]

Here in the Northwest it's a pretty short season.  True good weather is from July 4th until mid September.  Today it's raining cats and dogs.  

That's it? Seriously.

Here in the NW where we live....we golf year round, with the most exceptional weather from July thru October...and in Seattle today they are getting 3-5 inches of rain...but you could play golf tomorrow at CB

Brent is only referring to the best weather, not the "Golf Season"

Just saying that some areas of the country have the courses closed after the first week of October and don't reopen until the end of May...

We need dentists in Texas too.

[William_G]

Here in the Northwest it's a pretty short season.  True good weather is from July 4th until mid September.  Today it's raining cats and dogs.   

That's it? Seriously.

Here in the NW where we live....we golf year round, with the most exceptional weather from July thru October...and in Seattle today they are getting 3-5 inches of rain...but you could play golf tomorrow at CB

Brent is only referring to the best weather, not the "Golf Season"

Just saying that some areas of the country have the courses closed after the first week of October and don't reopen until the end of May...

We need dentists in Texas too.

 

[William_G]

That's it? Seriously.

that's what she said

[Sam Morrow]

That's it? Seriously.

that's what she said

I was in the pool, it was cold.

[Bill_McBride]

The shrinkage?

[DMoriarty]

The golf season at Yellowstone Club (Big Sky, Mt) is an afternoon in mid-August.

[John Kirk]

It has to be Montana.

[DMoriarty]

It has to be Montana.

I was joking about Yellowstone Club because it is in the mountains and does have a short season, but I doubt the golf season in much of state is shorter than that of Minnesota or even much of the Northeast.  I think many courses shoot for sometime in March or perhaps early April and into or through October.  The mountain courses will be quite a bit shorter.   High end clubs and courses appealing to out of state money may have shorter seasons because of the travel schedules of the rich and famous  and not necessarily because of the weather.

[jeffwarne]

The Sand Hills?

[Greg Chambers]

I used to manage a course at 8000 feet in the mountains of Colorado.  We would (usually) open around the first of May, and (hopefully) make it thru the last week of October.  We had one year where we had less than three weeks of frost free mornings.  Short season.  And yes, it is difficult to maintain a decent game when you shelf the clubs for six months at a time.

[Tom Bacsanyi]

I used to manage a course at 8000 feet in the mountains of Colorado.  We would (usually) open around the first of May, and (hopefully) make it thru the last week of October.  We had one year where we had less than three weeks of frost free mornings.  Short season.  And yes, it is difficult to maintain a decent game when you shelf the clubs for six months at a time.

Where at Greg?  I'm up near 8000 feet as well.  We didn't get out onto the course to do our tasks until 10AM this morning due to snow/frost.

We open in May but the greens don't really get rolling until sometime in June.  And as you say, the season can end abruptly with one early storm.

[Craig Sweet]

In western Montana we open mid March and can generally play until Thanksgiving.

[Tom_Doak]

The shortest season I've seen is some of those courses in the mountains of North Carolina.  I remember stopping through to see Linville on a beautiful fall day with the foliage at peak color ... right about this time of year, actually ... and the course had been closed for a couple of weeks.

The mountains of Colorado are also a short season.  When I went to Keystone, the pro was a guy I'd met at his winter job in Florida.  I asked him how long he had been there and he said "18 months," and then said "well that's 4 1/2 years, but only 4 months a year".

[RJ_Daley]

Wild Bluff in Sault st Marie, and GreyWalls in Marquette can't be too long of a season. 

[William_G]

should late openings and early closures affect how a course is ranked by those who do such?

each course must have their own rationale for doing so, of course.

[Tom_Doak]

should late openings and early closures affect how a course is ranked by those who do such?

Absolutely not. 

However, there is no getting around that the length of the playing season is an important factor in the financial viability of a golf course.

[John Kavanaugh]

should late openings and early closures affect how a course is ranked by those who do such?

Absolutely not. 

However, there is no getting around that the length of the playing season is an important factor in the financial viability of a golf course.

That seems odd considering most of the world's poverty is located in warm weather climates.

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