"In England, you would never have boys with names like these playing such a rough, fast-moving game," he said.
Then Mr. Azoy stood before the crowd and delivered an hourlong talk, accompanied by slides, about his discovery of this rough, fast-paced sport in the mountains of northern Afghanistan during his diplomatic tour in the 1970s.
After watching the pros play it, you can patch together sequences of, "Well, I hit my approach better than Sergio Garcia," and, "Even though I'm stuck in the bunker, I got out of it faster than Stuart Appleby," and, "Thank goodness I found my ball in the rough faster than Angel Cabrera and his caddy did".
But the best-maintained Har-Tru court seems reserved — or at least dominated by — a clique of 10 to 15 men who play in a rougher, fast-paced fashion.
I wanted it to be set in a place where justice was rough and fast.
It is a links-like course with few trees, malevolent rough and fast greens set among deep bunkers.
East Lake Golf Club, which is the host for the Tour Championship for the second time in three years, will clearly separate those who are playing well from those who are not, with long par-4 holes, penalizing rough and fast greens.
Mr. Paxton, picking rough and fast, rolled through "The Cat Came Back" and "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?"; when he got into "In the Jailhouse Now," a medicine-show song with several different versions, it became clear that he wasn't drawing from the most famous one, by the white entertainer Jimmie Rodgers, but rather the versions by the black singers Blind Blake and Pink Anderson.
This paper describes a user detection system which employs a saliency system working on an omnidirectional camera delivering a rough and fast estimate of the position of a potential user.
'Registration 1' is a rough and fast estimation of non-rigid deformations performed on smaller size images, where the B-spline functions are largely constrained (increasing the weight γ of the penalty term in Eq. 3) to describe the more global deformations in the material.
