Depending on where you live and play, zoysia grass could save your course and your golfing life. so says an article published in GOLF magazine on August 12, 2018. Want to know more? Below is an excerpt and a link to the full story: 

As the high priests play in this 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club, here in the Show Me state, they are traversing beautiful magic-carpet fairways woven with a grass you don’t see often, called zoysia. Zoysia is a thick-bladed, hearty grass that stands straight up, even after a drenching rain, as we had here late Friday afternoon. The ball nearly always sits right on top of the grass, begging to be hit, like the new mats at your better driving ranges.

Rees Jones, the architect of record here, reworking his father’s course, loves the surface, as a course designer and as a golfer. Playing a ball off a zoysia fairway, cut here to a half-inch, is almost like playing off a tee. “The hybrid off zoysia — it’s easy as pie,” Jones said the other day.

Zoysia … oh, boy-a! Why the grass at Bellerive — yes, the grass — is the unheralded star of the show