(Photo by Jimmy Jenkins-KJZZ)

Arcot Premkumar and Dennis Binaco get ready to tee off at the TPC Scottsdale. The temperature at noon? 105 degrees.

For a lot of the country, this is peak season for the golfing industry. Here in the southwest, it’s just the opposite. High temperatures keep golfers off the links while water and upkeep costs strain maintenance budgets. Courses in the Valley take different approaches to make ends meet.

At the Tournament Players Club in Scottsdale, it’s noon and the temperature on the first tee is 105 degrees.This kind of weather brings out two types of golfers.

There are passionate players like Dennis Binaco: “I don’t play in the rain and I won’t play when it’s cold, but when it’s hot I’ll play all the time,” Binaco said.

And then there are the, shall we say, thrifty players like Arcot Premkumar.

“Price is the most important thing,” Premkumar said as Binaco called him cheap. “I mean everybody likes a nice deal,” Premkumar said.

Today, Premkumar is getting a great deal. In peak season – the fall and winter – it costs more than $300 to play here. In the summer, 18 holes and a cart will only set you back $85.

Course professional Doug Hodge said it’s a chance for higher handicappers to play on the same turf as the greatest in the game.

“Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth played here in '15, Jason Day, the list goes on and on,” Hodge said of the list of PGA tour members that have played here.

It costs a lot to keep a championship course looking green in the middle of the desert.

“We need to do everything we can every day to maximize green fee cart fee revenues," Hodge said. "Even a little bit of revenue is better than none for our operation.”

Like a lot of courses, the Players Club uses an online booking service to fill tee times. Will McIntosh is with the booking service Golf Now.

"We make their tee time inventory available to golfers so that they can search for the particular date and time that they want to play golf,” McIntosh said. Playing at 6:00 AM on Saturday when the temperature is only 95 degrees will cost you more than playing at noon on Sunday.

For smaller golf courses, the grass isn’t always as green. In fact, at the Apache Sun Golf Club east of Phoenix, the fairways are completely brown and the grass crunches underfoot. Superintendent Rory Van Poucke closes the course every summer from May to October and lets the grass die.

“We close to reduce our water costs and reduce our expenses to maintain a profitable operation,” Van Poucke said. He said his fairways will be green again and ready for the snow birds’ return this fall.