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It's only 7 a.m., but sweat is already trickling down my face as I tee
off on the first hole of one of Asia's toughest courses at the Laem
Chabang International Country Club,
laemchabanggolf.com
, two hours east
of Bangkok. It's not because of the heat, but the pressure: a 200-yard
tunnel of bushes leaves no room for a hook or a slice; farther on, the
gaping mouths of four hungry sand traps guard a tiny, fast green. And
I've been grouped with three aces who fly in every year from Japan to...