That is what grass is supposed to look like in the dry season, and that is what responsible use of a limited natural resource should look like, too.

Pity it interfered with your island vacation, though.

All this genteel golf on green, manicured, hybrid grass is for PANSIES. Let's get back to golf's ROOTS, where bold, Scottish men whacked spherical stones with large clubs through wild & unrelenting Scottish grasses. Tough men, playing tough golf. They didn't need close-cropped "greens". They didn't need carefully-mowed fairways. No. Their sandtraps were REAL sand traps. Their handicaps were REAL handicaps. And everything was in "the rough".

We could call it Extreme Golf, and market it to extreme men (no Trumps allowed). "X-Golf", where the fairway is that patch of forest over there, and the hole is a literal hole in the ground, dug with an entrenching tool. The next green is across that meadow and into a small ravine, par 7. The one after that is along the foothills of a mountain, par 12.

Dry grass? No problem. Swamp? "Swamp traps". Golf cart? No.

Only weak men play golf on grass specially bred to "lay" down. Wimps. Losers.

X-Golf or nothing!

I remember playing on the course at WSU, where only the tees and putting greens were...green.