DeLay points out that his trip was fully reported and had destinations beyond the fairways of golf's birthplace.
The superintendent, Ernie Pock, overseeds the fairways, greens and tee boxes but not the rough.
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These days, pines and blackjack oaks with trunks "as thick as a man's leg" dot the fairways, Harris said.
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Children treated the fairways as a vast playground, the bunkers as makeshift forts.
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Most of the fairways are canted, meaning that drives landing in their center can easily bound into the rough.
As a result, the fairways and greens tend to be far more undulating.
The course pays a local man to mow the fairways every week or so, and once a year to spray for dandelions.
There was no significant damage to the course, where players were able to lift, clean and place their golf balls in the fairways.
Robert Powell and Coronation Street stars Trevor Dwyer-Lynch and Alan Halsall will be among the actors taking to the fairways at the Ballymena club.
Many of the fairways slope sharply, slicing balls into the rough.
Although most of the greens have open connections to the fairways, the long bump-and-run shots so often seen at British Opens will be a rarity here.
"The last time I played it, it was maybe a little soft but the fairways have firmed up and the greens are fantastic, " said the Clandeboye player.
For the first three or four years of Army ownership, the fairways were occasionally mowed to facilitate training maneuvers, such as setting up medical-evacuation areas and hostage rescue.
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Ferocious rough lining the fairways and around the greens has been the feature of the final major of the season and sub-par rounds have been priceless all week.
Last week's flooding rains will test the course's recent drainage upgrades, but in general, Sawgrass plays shorter than its official 7, 215 yards because the fairways are firm and fast.
"It'll be considerably tougher than a weekly USPGA Tour event just because of the firmness of the greens, the narrowness of the fairways and the length of rough, " he said.
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Fortunately, golf fans can look forward to a much more star-filled slate of players next week, when the Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid takes to the fairways of Harbor Shores, Michigan.
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For one day, his mind appeared to be back on the fairways and greens as he shot a six-under 65 Thursday in the first round of the Barclays in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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The fairways were so firm that tee shots were running some 50 yards after they landed, and the greens were firm enough that balls ran out an extra two feet around the hole.
Sun dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far, including Congressional, Bethpage Black, Olympic Club, Pinehurst No. 8, the Old Course at St.
With rain falling all morning and the course getting increasingly sodden, there was no choice but to call off play as the players tried to plot their way through pools of standing water all over the fairways and greens.
The pair used all their experience to play some impressive golf, despite the fact that many tee shots were accompanied by the endless clicking of dozens of cameras while security men struggled to hold back the fans on the fairways.
After missing the fairways off the tees and making bogeys at No. 18 and then No. 1, the latter starting his back nine when he drove into a bunker and had a par putt lip out of the cup, Bradley was at 3 under.
As part of their training, they sometimes land helicopters on the fairways of an abandoned Donald Ross golf course at the base and storm mansions, stables and other buildings that were owned and regularly used by the Rockefeller family as recently as the late 1990s.
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The fairways are bracketed with heather, and then with gorse, so that at the right time of year when everything is blooming, the course becomes a sea of green, purple and yellow that is compounded by the sea, the sand, and some of the most incredible sunsets anyplace.
There were four of us: working press from all over the globe suddenly possessing the wide-eyed stare of excited children, with a glorious invitation to the pristine fairways of Augusta National -- living out our fantasies of actually playing the course.
It does, however, paint the dormant fairways green each winter, so that many resort visitors don't even notice.
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The contrast between the rough, which will get even more golden as the season progresses, and the green fairways was visually appealing.
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Space around the tees, fairways and greens to allow for the estimated 45, 000 spectators likely to attend the Ryder Cup each day.
The final round played out somewhat like a U.S. Open with the elements, the dried-out fast greens and the fescue-lined fairways working like a demolition derby on the 74 players who qualified for the final round.
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