There's a much-needed place in this country for golf courses that maybe aren't quite up to snuff, but are cheap, easy and fun to play for everyday Joes who don't fancy having to whale out of sand traps every other hole or being looked at funny when they wear sneakers.

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This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.

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Firemen, wearing breathing apparatus, dug a hole in the sand and turned the barrel over into the larger container.

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"McAfee saw them coming and he dug a hole in the sand and buried himself in the sand, he says, and he put a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe, " Davis said.

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On the next hole Davis clambers into a sand trap with me to show me how to open the blade of my sand wedge for a short shot.

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Jenkins took up golf at age 8, on a nine-hole course with oiled-sand greens near his working-class home on the South Side, and came of age just as Nelson and Hogan were hitting their stride.

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