Tiger Woods got him out of a sand trap, noting that he too was motivated by high state taxes when he moved in the 1990s.

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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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Surely, they say, anybody who can both run a large multinational company and also get up and down out of a nasty sand trap must have been designed by something real smart.

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Miguel Angel Jimenez's awesome recovery from the sand trap at the sweet 16th nudged him towards a first full Ryder Cup point in eight matches since 2004 - finished off beautifully at the signature 18th with a textbook birdie.

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There's a vial of a substance he calls KimSim, a material his girlfriend helped create to figure out how to rescue the Spirit rover after it got stuck in a "sand trap" of alien soil on Mars in 2009.

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Opportunity has been trundling around Mars ever since, though it was designed for only a ninety-day mission. (Spirit got stuck in a sand trap in 2009 and quit transmitting nearly a year later.) It never found the lake bed, or organic material of any kind.

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