Word: chabang
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...only 7 a.m., but sweat is already trickling down my face as I tee off on the first hole of one of Asia's toughest courses at the Laem Chabang International Country Club, laemchabanggolf.com, two hours east of Bangkok. It's not because of the heat, but the pressure: a 200-yard tunnel of bushes leaves no room for a hook or a slice; farther on, the gaping mouths of four hungry sand traps guard a tiny, fast green. And I've been grouped with three aces who fly in every year from Japan to be humbled by this obstacle...
...Sawat does everything for me but swing the club. She drives the cart, gardens divots, keeps score, and when my last ball plunks into a lake, she finds others in the bushes. Six years at Laem Chabang, where caddies must pass three months of training and testing, has made her fluent in golf...
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