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Afghanistan's only golf course

After war, an occasion for golf.

There is christian louboutin toronto certainly nary a blade of grass in the Kabul Club set, http://www.corratavey.co.uk/ just outside Afghanistan's capital. The greens are certainly not green; they're hardpacked brown sand, laced with oil and swept clean to hold the putting surface smooth. The fairways are rockstrewn and scrubfilled.

Ball finders required, based on course rules accompany golfers and their caddies, who have a swatch of artificial turf pandora jewelry uk and tee up each new shot. pandora charms canada Minus the ball finders to go looking in all the brush pandora bracelet sale and undergrowth, a round of golf would likely be much shorter at Afghanistan's only course. Why? Since the majority of golfers gives up before finishing.

Michael Alexander, a Londoner who has played his way across several of Britain's best courses, notes that golf with north face uk the ninehole Kabul Golf-club provides moments that playing at St. Andrews can't.

"The Army checkpoint," for example, he tells. "The free [ball] drop with the Army checkpoint that was a north face gilet real difference with St. Andrews," says Mr. Alexander, tongue in cheek.

A recent charity tournament here brought out 44 golfers, paying $100 each, for that privilege of playing the hardscrabble course west of Kabul.

The tournament netted $4,000 a year ago for a few local charities, said tournament director Richard Day, a Canadian working in Afghanistan since November 2006. The 2010 outing, your third in several years, is expected to give a like figure to two local nongovernmental groups, women of Project Hope and PARSA, which work to assist disadvantaged persons christian louboutin toronto in Afghan's society including the disabled, widowed, or orphaned.

Course founder and club pro, Mohammad Afzal Abdul, opened the course in 2004, following the Taliban first fled Afghanistan plus a generationlong era of war had started to fade. Security remains tight however through the tournament. Police toting AK47s have a very watchful eye from nearby hilltops as 24 approximately armed men walk the program.

The future of golf in Afghanistan may seem uncertain in the near term, yet not to Mr. Abdul. "I teach [every week] 100 to 110 boys, afterschool students," he said. "I want to teach everyone golf.".

 
 
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