While California residents are asked to let their lawns go brown and swap grass for drought-tolerant landscaping, the Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta reopened in December 2024 after a multi-million-dollar refresh. The restored 229-acre golf course underwent extensive re-grassing and irrigation upgrades, even though a single golf course can use up to a million gallons of water daily. … A million gallons of water daily is roughly what one desert golf course can consume. That’s the daily water use of about 3,000 households. Also, desert golf courses often play by different rules. In Nevada, they were exempt from the state’s 2021 law banning nonfunctional grass. Others may benefit from subsidized water rates or are grandfathered into decades-old water rights agreements that allow continued access to groundwater or Colorado River allocations.