Holder: Golf a game with one goal, and many languages
Atthaya Thitikul and Kultida Pramphun assure us that golf in the Thai language sounds a lot like English: A putter is still a putter and a green is still a green.
“Bunker,” however, is something else.
To begin with, the Thai equivalent for “bunker” comprises a series of symbols unlike anything contained in this newspaper’s software programs. Upon hearing Thitikul and Pramphun say it, the word also sounds more like “sigh,” which at least approximates
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