Customers include clean-cut men in golf shirts, grannies and women cradling babies.

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Beyond the opponents, surprises always come up south of the border for the U.S. This day it was a field with grass as long as the first cut on a golf course, which made hitting crisp passes across the ground difficult.

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In a crisis, however, golf, karaoke and durian do not quite cut it.

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