article_snippet: (CNN)Mention the words "sand" and "golf" together, and the chances are you'll leave many players shuddering at the memory of being trapped in bunkers after another wayward shot.
article_snippet: The idea of playing a round without verdant fairways to stride down or lush greens to putt (and, of course, miss) on seems strange, even wrong.
article_snippet: The result was an incarnation of the game in which the only grass to be seen is artificial, found on a mat carried around by players to serve both as a tee and a surface from which to strike when the ball is on the fairway.
article_snippet: If the ball lands outside both, the ball's in the sand golf equivalent of the rough -- stony terrain that the unwary player may soon find is home to a few snakes and a lizard or two.
article_snippet: Well, Greens're known as "browns," built from clay and topped with a mixture of sand and oil to provide a true putting surface, a formula arrived at through trial and error.
article_snippet: It's an odd environment, this golfing world with a palette of golden-brown colors.
highlights_snippet: Form of game features putting 'browns' instead of greens .
  