Air Base’s Golf Course 1 Big Trap
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EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA — Some golf courses have to import their sand. But not here.
Air Force personnel who devised the 1,000-yard, nine-hole Desert Fox National course outside the largest U.S. Air Force base in Saudi Arabia play it with a strip of portable plastic grass they carry for tee shots and fairway drives.
“It’s a par three so if you’re a good golfer you can hit the ‘green’ with one drive,” Chief Master Sgt. Jim Chumley, 50, told a pool reporter.
“If not, then you’re in the sand trap. Wherever you hit the ball you’re in the sand trap.”
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