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Hi Everyone,

I live in Arizona and this summer has been unbearable recently. And yes I'm determined to play these beautiful courses here this year with discounted rates and no need for the cart ladies. I recently jerry rigged a Home Depot portable fan mister to the ice cooler on the side of the golf cart and added water, and voila ! The golf cart blasted cold air for my entire 18 hole round ! Are there other options out there or am I so bright I need some FATHER of the YEAR Award? Like to hear them. Sorry for the sarcasm. Just needed to play golf, got really frustrated from staying in the house.


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Love that you are so determined to get out there! Nice job rigging up your own solution!
 
Is it even safe to be outside at 122?
 
I played in 119 degree weather a few days ago at the Furnace Creek course in Death Valley, Ca.

I had a cooler with iced water in it, that I kept plenty of water, and two rolled towels in.

The towels I would wear around my neck. An old military trick to keep the brain stem cool, or so they told me.

When I got the most out of one towel, I'd switched to the next one in the cooler. Just kept rotating them out.

I was drinking a bottle of water every two holes. I also started hydrating the day before I played.
 
So I have been debating going to Vegas this weekend. 110+ heat doesnt sound pleasant even if it’s shadow creek.
 
I am in AZ as well and have a few things in my arsenal. My wife makes me a bowl of water with some essential oils and I soak some wash cloths overnight and then freeze. I throw them in the cooler and they are great refreshers throughout the round. I also freeze water bottles and throw in my insulated pouch on the golf bag and use them as my ice and drink them as they thaw. I wear sun sleeves and a bucket hat that I can soak in water as needed. I started using the “liquid IV” powders in my water last summer and they helped. Other than that, always find shade whenever possible. Drink water all day; it can be dangerous in the heat so if you start feeling sick, get to a cool space.

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oumagic said:
I am in AZ as well and have a few things in my arsenal. My wife makes me a bowl of water with some essential oils and I soak some wash cloths overnight and then freeze. I throw them in the cooler and they are great refreshers throughout the round. I also freeze water bottles and throw in my insulated pouch on the golf bag and use them as my ice and drink them as they thaw. I wear sun sleeves and a bucket hat that I can soak in water as needed. I started using the “liquid IV” powders in my water last summer and they helped. Other than that, always find shade whenever possible. Drink water all day; it can be dangerous in the heat so if you start feeling sick, get to a cool space.

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^ All of that. Another AZ resident here - I take a 64 ounce bottle of ice water mixed with electrolyte powder, and use one of the "cool towels", which I frequently dip in the cooler and wrap around my neck. I have one of the "Aussie Soaker" type hats, which I keep wet with ice cold water also. Walking in the summer heat is suicidal, ride in a cart and seek shade wherever you can get it. Hydrate, hydrate, and hydrate! It's 120 degrees and 5% humidity here today, that heat and dryness sucks the water right out of you and if you don't keep ahead of the curve you won't notice until it's too late.

As a couple have already said, if you're not acclimated to the heat it can be especially dangerous. A friend of mine who lives near the coast in SoCal came out last July, and I thought I was going to have to call 9-1-1 after the first round we played - it was 110+ that day, and the heat really did him in. We play all summer long, but we're used to the heat and know how to minimize the impact of it (and it still kicks your butt!). Forecast for tomorrow is 119°, but we're teeing off at 0700 (when it will only be in the mid-90s), and will be done and off the course before it hits 110°. Afternoon golf isn't the greatest idea, since our highest temps are usually around 5:00 pm and everything is completely heat soaked.
 
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Another Zonie here. Hoping to join the THP league soon, if work stops getting in the way. I’m in Surprise, there’s a couple of us out here. I try to get out with @tucsoncacti as often as possible…
 
Pfft. Y'all are going way overboard with all that hydrate, hydrate, hydrate stuff. Sure, the temp gauge might say 112... but it's a DRY heat. There's no humidity so that's like what, 80 Fahrenheit at the most. And that's accounting for interest and the Canadian shift.:LOL:

You ain't got it like we do down here in the South. Now this. This is REAL heat. Lemme tell you. Temp gauge says 90 degrees but 80% humidity. You might as well be standing in a shower. There ain't no evaporation going on. You sweat, you get wet. You sweat some more, You get wetter. But the good thing is, if you're thirsty, just open your mouth and swallow. The humidity will fix you right up.:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Seriously though. I was in Vegas years ago. It was 114 during the day and it only felt like it was 90 because it was dry... but I wasn't playing golf. I was walking from a casino to my car.

Stay in the shade if possible. Hydrate as much as possible. Be careful and have a good time playing golf.
 
The biggest problem I see out here is dehydration. You are sweating your butt off, but don’t feel it because it evaporates so fast and because it is evaporating so fast it is not cooling you off. Often people don’t feel thirsty out here until it is too late.

It does feel cooler here than somewhere with humidity, but man, it can be dangerous. The hottest I ever played was in Oklahoma and it was like 95 with a heat index of 130, but that didn’t sneak up on me like desert heat. There have been too many times I have just needed to run outside for “a few minutes” to do a chore or two after work at 4:00 and almost collapsed an hour later.

If you tee off in the morning out here and drink lots of water and try to find shade whenever possible, it isn’t too bad.
 
I have always said I like the heat and triple digits wouldn’t keep me from playing. Yea, I think I draw the line with this. Damn, 119 is just too crazy hot. Maybe AZ just isn’t for me. 😂
 
fuffle master said:
I have always said I like the heat and triple digits wouldn’t keep me from playing. Yea, I think I draw the line with this. Damn, 119 is just too crazy hot. Maybe AZ just isn’t for me. 😂
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110 is my usual cutoff, but I am not as young or as in shape as some that claim 115+ is fine. If it weren’t for AZ THP league on Saturday, I would probably spend the day in the pool or AC, but we are playing early enough that most should finish before 110 hits.

Summertime in PHX is like winter here for many golfers and I personally play less June-August than the rest of the year. I still play more than probably someone in New York in winter. I don’t mind the brutal summers; if it weren’t for summer, we would have 25 million people living here.
 
I played at 118 a few years back on a visit to my dad’s place in Parker, AZ. The course provided all that you guys are talking about ie. cold towels, as much water as you could carry. We made a rule to drink a 12oz bottle per hole and I still never needed to “empty the tank”. Just pay attention to your body and don’t get yourself into trouble, my dad got heatstroke last year and it was not good.

Now all that being said, I really want to see that mister system! I was joking with my friends that I was trying to figure out a mister system for my umbrella as we are walking a tournament this Saturday and it’s supposed to be 100 degrees.
 
Scorpion12 said:
Pfft. Y'all are going way overboard with all that hydrate, hydrate, hydrate stuff. Sure, the temp gauge might say 112... but it's a DRY heat. There's no humidity so that's like what, 80 Fahrenheit at the most. And that's accounting for interest and the Canadian shift.:LOL:

You ain't got it like we do down here in the South. Now this. This is REAL heat. Lemme tell you. Temp gauge says 90 degrees but 80% humidity. You might as well be standing in a shower. There ain't no evaporation going on. You sweat, you get wet. You sweat some more, You get wetter. But the good thing is, if you're thirsty, just open your mouth and swallow. The humidity will fix you right up.:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Seriously though. I was in Vegas years ago. It was 114 during the day and it only felt like it was 90 because it was dry... but I wasn't playing golf. I was walking from a casino to my car.

Stay in the shade if possible. Hydrate as much as possible. Be careful and have a good time playing golf.
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Hey, my hat is off to you guys in the South/Southeast who play in that humidity. The thing about the "dry heat" has some truth to it, it makes it more bearable - that humidity you guys play in is no joke! I just walk outside in that stuff and feel like I'm drowning - instant sweat from head to toe. I sweat a lot anyway, so I immediately look like somebody threw a bucket of water on me, I'm just drenched. 100 degrees here is actually pretty pleasant, but put me in 90 degrees and 80% humidity and I'm absolutely miserable.

Like @oumagic said, you sweat like crazy in this dry heat, but it dries so fast that it doesn't cool you and you don't notice how much fluid and electrolytes you're losing. If you don't keep ahead of it, it can really mess you up.


TheHeez said:
I played at 118 a few years back on a visit to my dad’s place in Parker, AZ. The course provided all that you guys are talking about ie. cold towels, as much water as you could carry. We made a rule to drink a 12oz bottle per hole and I still never needed to “empty the tank”. Just pay attention to your body and don’t get yourself into trouble, my dad got heatstroke last year and it was not good.

Now all that being said, I really want to see that mister system! I was joking with my friends that I was trying to figure out a mister system for my umbrella as we are walking a tournament this Saturday and it’s supposed to be 100 degrees.
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Parker, so you guys probably played Emerald Canyon - that's the course I was talking about where I thought my friend was going to need 9-1-1! It was completely still that day, and that course winds up into those canyons where there's no airflow and heat reflecting off all the rock canyon walls around you, it's like being in an oven. We teed off there once when it was 122 degrees, hottest round I've ever played. The friend I was playing with drinks beer like water, and it's the only time I've ever heard him say it was too hot to drink beer. We were downing water and Gatorade like crazy, and I was still almost blacking out every time I bent down to put a tee in the ground or pick my ball up. I played about half that round in a state of semi-consciousness.

It's 6:10 am here right now, and we have a 7:15 tee time this morning. It's already 95 degrees and climbing as I sit here and type this, and the sun isn't even over the horizon yet. The weather forecast says it'll be 109° by 11 am, with a high of 119° later in the afternoon.
 
122 ? Wow..that is hot. I have played in 110-112 before but not that high.
I lathered the sunscreen on, used a cool towel, rode in a cart, drank about a gallon of water and complained about the heat the whole time.
 
Yeesh. I dig golf, but, not THAt much.

My pop-in-law has a place in Scottsdale, we went there once and played in 100 degree heat, and I damn near passed out. Yes, I was drinking water, doing a cold towel, seeking shade, to no avail.
 
Golf at 112 degrees?
Do they just hook people up to an IV solution, pat 'em on the head and send them out to the first tee with a "good luck, we're all counting on you" ??
 
While I think I could handle 100-110 of dry heat, not sure about anything more than that without jumping into a lake or hanging out in the shade like the cows.

Still, the NJ humidity is disgusting and I make it through that, so who knows
 
I lived in Phoenix for 16 years and played at 120+ maybe 3 times over that span. 122 at Grayhawk I particularly remember. We were one of only a handful of groups out there, and this guy kept bringing us chilled, mango-scented towels. I'd tee off with one draped over my head, and held there by my hat. It would be completely saturated with ice water, but by the time I got to my ball, it would be nearly dry. By the time I finished a hole, it would be bone-dry!

Thank God that dude kept coming around!
 
It has not been too hot for me to go out and play golf in AZ yet. I love the summer time because usually you can get around the course pretty quick. Of course there are still those guys that have to hold up the course because they have a nickel riding on a hole but that is more rare during the summer. We get great rates and my tan goes from buttered pecan to toasted almond. The shade, towels, and water are pretty standard procedure. I will tell you another thing nothing tastes as good as an ice cold domestic beer at about hole 17 as you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last summer I did not see much from the COVID boredom and getting tee times, this summer started pretty packed but I haven't seen an issue in the last couple of weeks.
 
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I've done 120's before. It was brutally hot, but I had plenty of water and just kept refilling and staying cool.

The parking lot and heat inside my rental car however, not so great. Melted my room key around the cup holder. I was like WHHOOAAAA TOO HOT.
 
MWard said:
I've done 120's before. It was brutally hot, but I had plenty of water and just kept refilling and staying cool.

The parking lot and heat inside my rental car however, not so great. Melted my room key around the cup holder. I was like WHHOOAAAA TOO HOT.
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I was joking that we should make car baked brownies during AZTHP league tomorrow.
 
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