Corey Eastwood, CGCS said: The course down the street never has a frost delay, even with about ten days of a low in the twenty's this January. I have never seen any green or tee damage. A few brown/black cart tracks on fairways(all rye) on the first few holes.
After holding play for over thirty years maybe it was not needed.
There are too many variables to make a blanket statement that playing on frost is harmless. I can't figure out the exact combination of factors that go into making some nasty frost burns but it can, and does, happen. It's especially prevalent when the damage occurs in the fall and carries on through the spring.
By the time frost season rolls around we couldn't fill a full tee sheet anyway so having the players expect a later tee time does not really equate to lost revenue. It would of course if the tee sheet would have been full from 7:00am on.