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...game's standard frustrations--the blown putts, the sliced drives into the rough--and questions his devotion to such a maddening pursuit. But as a regular at Kabul's only golf course, McNeill puts up with some extra hazards that would test the mettle of Tiger Woods. The grassless fairways of rock and stubble are cratered by rocket shells. The greens are in fact brown, a mix of oil and dirt with the consistency of quicksand. Approach shots are complicated by the possibility that insurgents have planted land mines on the course. And your swing may be off-kilter because...
...city's gardens are grassless or at best spotty. Men spend their time raking the dirt. The fountains have only hoses coming out of the water making a less than ornate pattern...
...wallow in the shallows like huge sea lions, there are signs of activity on "the Indian side." Small children scamper from house to house--16 identical government prefabs staring blankly across the blue through 16 identical broken picture windows. The wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos...
...spring golf match in the East is usually a wet cold afternoon of trudging around brown fairways and grassless greens. Golf is a summer sport meant to be played under a July sun behind a slow foursome of businessmen...
Playing in a stiff, biting wind at Tufts' Sagamore Springs course, the Crimson outclassed both opponents with consistent fairway shooting. But even the Crimson could not handle the grassless greens which Bruce LoPucki, Harvards number two man, described as cow pastures...