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2007-10-27 Afghanistan

The world's most dangerous golf tournament

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Posted by Pappy 2007-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Kabul Desert Classic could safely claim to be the most dangerous golf tournament on earth, followed closely by the Golfers' Club at Fort McPherson. The only course in CONUS surrounded by chain link topped with razor wire and concertina. That weapons firing you hear is NOT from the rifle range, there isn't one.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-27 03:17|| 2007-10-27 03:17|| Front Page Top

Yeah. And now you're gonna die, wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?

Posted by Raj 2007-10-27 08:28|| 2007-10-27 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 What's par for the course?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-27 09:09|| 2007-10-27 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 For those less faint of heart, you can always try your hand at the Elfego Baca Golf Shoot held in honor of Mr. Baca memorialized in the Disney series "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca". Just watch that first step off the tee.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-27 10:01|| 2007-10-27 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 While not the most dangerous, perhaps the most challenging golf course ever was made in the 1940s in southern Arizona.

It started when a tourist, heading to California, stopped at a very isolated gas station to fill up his sports car. To fill up, he had to remove his golf bag, which he left behind when he took off, never to return.

After holding on to his bag for a while, the guys who worked at the station decided to make themselves a golf course, something they had never seen in real life. Fortunately, one of them found a crude diagram for a golf course, with its dimensions marked out, but not scaled.

So they set up one, out in the rocky and hilly desert, but in yards, rather than feet.

It took them quite a while, but they set up flags on poles about where they thought they should be, with a map and compass.

The first golf game was quite an expedition. Each of the golfers had a pack mule and one had a saddlebag full of golf balls, having obtained a bucket of them at a driving range a few hundred miles away on a trip, along with a local Mexican "caddy", whose primary job was to cook, watch for snakes and keep the rifle handy.

One of the golfers got drunk and angry and kicked a rock, breaking a toe for his efforts, so he went back early, but the other two finished, and averaging their scores they figured that it was about a par 1300 or so. It took 3 days.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-27 11:21|| 2007-10-27 11:21|| Front Page Top

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