Golf Sports Blog > Afghans Seek to Rediscover the Meaning of Leisure

 [Developing New Stories | The News is NowPublic.com] That means the putting greens contain no grass. Instead, the surface around the golf holes is a mixture of sand and motor oil. While golfers now struggle to negotiate the rock-strewn fairways, the course at one point during the 1990s was literally a battleground %u2013 the scene of skirmishes between rival Mujahedeen factions who were vying to take control of the capital at the time.