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Here the grass goes dormant in the winter... just normal for the temperature and climate. It would be difficult to cut back much on the summer irrigation here though.... with 20% humidity and 90 to over 100 degree temps in the summer, any water is just sucked right out of the ground. Grass doesn't go dormant, it dies a very permanent death. Even a dry winter can be deadly to most turf grasses.

This spring my course had to reseed large areas of the course, particularly tee boxes and higher parts of several fairways in order to bring it back from a warm, dry winter last year. They used more than a 1000 pounds of seed just doing the patching. It wasn't until mid June that the course was really back to its summertime normalcy. Because of the semiarid climate, the fairways naturally tend to have varying green and brownish and yellowish areas.