Can you golf all year round where you live?

[Packerfan]

I live in Wisconsin, so I only have about 5 good months of golf throughout the year. I often wonder how good my game would be if I didn't have the layoff. How do you stay sharp if you can't golf year round where you live?

[mapa94]

I live in the Palm Springs area and golf year round. The winters have perfect golf weather but the green fees are expensive. The summers are very inexpensive and you have the course to yourself but temperatures often exceed 110F. I play more often in the summer. We have 130 golf courses to choose from....I love it here.

[alf174]

  Packerfan said:

I live in Wisconsin, so I only have about 5 good months of golf throughout the year. I often wonder how good my game would be if I didn't have the layoff. How do you stay sharp if you can't golf year round where you live?

Heated or inside tees and vacations south.

[joshtpa]

No question about it. Live in Florida for 10 months a year, and CT in the other 2. I dont know if I could hangle not playing all yaer round. I know that if i had to, I would buy one of those VR machines.

[bogeyhitter25]

Massachusetts. I only get late spring, summer, and early fall.

[gsu_paintballer]

GA.

It's about a million degrees in the summer, but that's tolerable when you've dealt with it for twenty years. The winters aren't that cold here. I haven't actually beena golfer during a winter, so I can't tell you. However, I can say that the weather IS good enough to do so.

[Damien_Connolly]

Living in Dublin Ireland.

No matter what time of the year it is the weather is usually a bit dodgey. We get two or three days of sun then wind and rain for 2 weeks all year round.

At least if you can brave the weather we can pretty much play all year round.

We have some new Golf Simulator bars after opening here which lets you play from a whole host of different courses. Driving putting etc all done on mat

[polodinks]

Tallahassee, FL
golf year round here fall and winter is the best here its nice and breezy...... i actually prefer playing in colder weather

[JackieTreehorn]

Now I can in the LA beach area. But in eastern Massachusetts, the courses are muddy and waterlogged April-mid May. The "real" golf season there is June-mid October. You can get away playing later than that, but it will get leafy, cold, and kind of grim.

[effektz]

I'm here in Colorado, and even though you can't technically play "year around", you sort of can. For example last December, I went golfing 5 times. It was fairly warm, no snow on the ground, perfect golfing weather. Sometimes if Colorado decides to dump a ton of snow, there are a couple weeks golfing can't happen, but other than that it's really up in the air daily.

But in the last year I've been able to go golfing at least twice every month

[Craig Mac]

Year round playing for me, there might be a month or two were it is borderline for being too cold(temps in the 30's), and I probably don't get out much during Jan/Feb, but you will get a few random 70 degree days in dec/jan here. Rarely snows, hardly ever sticks

[Mr Eagle]

SE England, good all year round if a tad wet in the winter ( Sept-may) .I must admit I score better in the winter as the ball sticks on the greens.
Damian ,are those simulators any good ? Had a go on one a few years ago and it was ok untill you started putting when it got a bit messy. Keeps the back muscles working and thats about it as far as I could see

[QWKDTSN]

If you have waterproof shoes and clothes and bundle up in the winter, sure, you can play all year here.

I miss living in San Diego...

[FlopShotArtist]

Yep I can...98 degrees in the summer is brutal though.

[spyderwerks]

  FlopShotArtist said:

Yep I can...98 degrees in the summer is brutal though.

Yep, been stuck in that for the last few weeks here in upstate SC. Summers here are usually on the hot and humid side. Definately playable, but I become somewhat 'lazy' in temps over 90, so I have to get those early starts during the summer.

Winter here is rarely too cold to play. Only a few days maybe in Jan/Feb that are really unplayable. I can always add a few more appropriate clothes and play comfortably and functionally. I can always add more layers, but it's hard to take off enough to stay cool. Well, and still be legal for outside activity anyway.

[joshtpa]

We try to play at 7am every time we tee off, so that we can avoid some of the heat, and not have to play behind anyone either.

[birdmangriffin]

in OR, we can play year-round. Will it be soggy, irritating, and sometimes nasty? Yep! I played a round in the winter where it rained about 1.25" during it.

[GaijinGolfer]

Ever heard of, "snow golf"? Just because there is winter where you live, thats no reason not to play.
For those of you who think Im trying to be funny, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_golf