To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
Conditions at the desert circuit can be pretty interesting with gusts of winds often blowing sand and grit onto the circuit.
The four hour drive south from Marrakech winds through the Atlas mountains and tiny, dusty Berber villages (although many, surprisingly, not too tiny for an ATM) showered with blowing red sand under a blinding sun.
Parts of the Lincolnshire coast were hit by strong Siberian winds earlier this month blowing tonnes of sand across the promenades and walkways.
Air quality alerts were issued for northern Santa Barbara County and adjacent southern San Luis Obispo County because of blowing dust and sand.
The Naughty Dog developers like a good technical and artistic challenge, and creating and rendering realistic-looking sand (in dunes, blowing in the wind, etc.) is no easy feat.
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Winds raked the beachfront in Point Pleasant Beach, blowing drifts of sand onto Ocean Avenue, and shredding the decorative entrance canopy at a hotel across the street from the beach.
On the Jersey Shore, winds raked the beachfront in Point Pleasant Beach, blowing drifts of sand onto Ocean Avenue, and shredding the decorative entrance canopy at a hotel across the street from the beach.
Using powerful vehicle-mounted air blasters, soldiers can search for contact wires by blowing away leaves, sand and soil.
Quite a lot of the cash, though, may be blowing bubbles in Arabia, as in giant stockmarket ones, or getting buried in the sand.
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