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Norman was one of four Australians in the team for the Internationals' triumph in 1998 and said he would enjoy passing on his intimate knowledge of the famous sand-belt course to his players.

Norman eyeing locals to sink U.S. in Presidents Cup Reuters 2011

Norman was one of four Australians in the team for the Internationals' triumph in 1998 and said he would enjoy passing on his intimate knowledge of the famous sand-belt course to his players.

Norman eyeing locals to sink U.S. in Presidents Cup Reuters 2011

The little caravan got through the sand-belt safely in six days, and without further alarms from the Bushmen.

A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

Atlantic coast towards the interior the traveller meets first a sand-belt of forty-two miles, stripped of all vegetation and covered with gigantic sand-dunes; then a strip of desert land about ninety miles broad, with rugged, bare mountains and wide, barren sand-plains.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Give him a patch of pine-scrub or a bit of poor soil in a sand-belt and he'd feel it his duty to cultivate it, no matter how much work it cost.

The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905

Now, observe: none but they will ever strike the sand-belt!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

Now there are many shore weeds of this intermediate sand-belt which mimic to a surprising degree the chief external features of the cactuses.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

Now, observe: none but _they_ will ever strike the sand-belt!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872

Now, observe: none but _they_ will ever strike the sand-belt!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

This sand-belt is passable at one or two points, but horses sink to the knees at every step, and but for the water it would be a perilous experiment to cross it.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850