Monday, October 15, 2007

Afghan Golf


Here is a pretty amazing article about the one and only golf course in Afghanistan. It's definitely different than anything in the U.S. or probably in the world for that matter. Coming from someone who loves golf as much as anybody, I must say that I am even amazed people would play in conditions like these.

As a short preview,

It has no grass and no delineation between the fairways and the rough, and the greens — the course rules call them browns — are a concoction of sand and oil packed with a heavy roller and swept with a broom vaguely resembling those dragged along the base paths at the seventh-inning stretch in baseball.