Word: ginsu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along here by a state- of-the-art sprinkler and drainage system percolating at 32 in. an hour. The boundaries and hoops are rotated so that no spot of grass gets...