The first golf in Saudi was played on 'greens' resourcefully fashioned out of stretches of sand primed with oil by some of the ex-pats working in Saudi Aramco. And while I am delving into the recesses of memory here and potentially relying on hearsay from my early days in Bahrain. I did find some proof to back up my claims and my memory. Dick Severino writes in Swinging in the Sands, "The balls are red because in the glare of the desert sun. You can't always see a white ball