For bigger guys with nice beer bellies - and let's face it, few golfers don't have one - the consequences can be much more severe. It took about six bottled waters and a few hours to feel normal again. This reporter thought he was fine with fluids only to start shaking after a round in Tempe last summer. You can be feeling fine and then, suddenly, your knees turn wobbly and your round is ending early. Especially golfers inexperienced in the stifling desert heat. An even simpler one is: You're not drinking enough.Īlmost no one does. A simple rule is if you're not going to the bathroom, you're not drinking enough. Drink four times what you think you need: We're talking water, bottled water, and lots of it. A five-and-a-half round rubbernecking on the tees when its 95 can be much more aggravating than a four-hour round when it's 105.īesides, the whole up-before-the-roosters strategy goes against the purpose of most golf trips. It is a little cooler, but it's also the only time when the courses are packed solid during the summer.Īnd any slight gain in temperature comfort will be offset by crowd annoyance.
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Show up at farmer's hours during the summer season at any desert golf hotspot and you'll find a parking lot full of hackers with the same idea. It's become such golf gospel that it no longer applies in any practical sense. There are Martians planning to play Troon North at 5:30 a.m.
Newsflash: Everyone knows! Everyone's heard this creaky spiel. Like they've just let you in on the secret of life. Whoever's doing the telling will be all solemn and self important about it.
Six a.m., 6:30 - heck 5:30 if they'll let you - it can never be too early. Forget the early morning tee time jive: Tell someone you're golfing in the summer in Las Vegas, Scottsdale or Palm Springs and they'll inevitably instruct you to book an early morning tee time. Endure and you'll have some hellacious heat stories to tell at the next block party back home.Ģ. Summer duffers in the desert golf meccas should look at the heat the way visiting golfers regard rain and fog in Ireland and Scotland. Why not be hot while doing something I enjoy?" "You never get used to it," said Joe Carter, an Illinois transplant who's lived in Phoenix for more than a decade. Once temperatures start dancing over triple digits, throw any heat qualifiers out the window. You might not feel as hot, but you can burn twice as fast. Playing in 90 degree Fahrenheit Scottsdale weather can feel like playing in 80 degree New York weather.īut it's still hot. The problem comes in when people get ridiculous about it.ĭesert heat is a little more manageable than, say, Florida heat, where you might need more shirts per round than balls. Accept the heat: The old "but it's a dry heat" argument applies. Here are the real truths, not sunscreened at all by any tourism bureau or travel agency.ġ. There are plenty of myths out there about golf heat strategies you need to follow. With a few concessions and a little preparation, you can enjoy that great budget golf under the scorching sun. Suddenly, you wonder what you were thinking when you became enraptured by the low greens fees on the high-end courses in the hot weather season.Īll need not be lost though. Your enthusiasm is literally seeping out of every sweat gland in your body (some you didn't even know you had). Then, you step outside your hotel and feel like you've walked right into a furnace.
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