The anchorchain arcs down into it, through shafts of sunlight, to where the sand is patched with sea-grass.

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To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.

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These are the funny-looking Swiss-made shoes that mimic the experience of walking barefoot in sand or on soft grass.

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He finished fifth in his one grass-green tournament this spring, and aspires to a college golf scholarship, which several sand-greens players from the area have earned.

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