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TPC Becomes TPC Mosul For A Day

Apr- 2-2004 » Filed Under: Iraq News

There really is a golf course in Mosul - it was created by soldiers of the 101st.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL (AP) -- Lt. Jesse White spent the last year telling stories about playing golf in Iraq. Now he has one to take back.

White was one of five Army soldiers honored Thursday at the Tournament Players Club after they created a golf course in Iraq and dubbed it TPC Mosul. [...]

White, from White Church, Tenn., carried three golf clubs with him when he was deployed to Iraq and created a three-hole course at the base.

The course, set on hard ground in the desert, was later expanded to six holes.

The fairways and green are desert of course, and the only water hazard is an outhouse. To play nine holes, soldiers play the first six and then the first three again. White owns the nine-hole course record with a 31.

After several rounds, White and the others dubbed the course the TPC Mosul. When PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem heard about it last September, his staff adopted the battalion, sending e-mails, care packages, 1,300 pounds of food, plus clubs and hundreds of balls.


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