To paraphrase the ghostly voice in Kevin Costner's baseball movie "Field of Dreams , "Build it, and they will come. The principle worked well enough for Costner's Iowa farmer, and it appears to be working too for the developers of Orange Lakes Golf (...)
For 17 years, Nevine Allouba, a leading soprano in the Cairo Opera House company, has entertained local audiences at Christmastime with a combination of classical music and Christmas favorites. This year, before a packed Small Hall last Monday, (...)
The Egyptian Golf Federation (EGF) is the sports federation of golf in Egypt, working much like federations that govern football and other sports to regulate official aspects of the game such as rules and its players.
Since the advent of new golf (...)
The game of golf may well have been invented by a sadist who wanted to cause harm to the human spine. That being said, over the past decade, golf has become an increasingly popular sport with an exponential increase in golfers of all ages.
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For many of us, golf is a sport of middle age - and older. Many people play tennis until a certain age and then take up golf. As the legendary Gary Player - now 71 years old and still very fit - once told me: "Golf is a game you can play when you (...)
Golf, as we have written before, is widely played partly because of a handicap system that allows players of different skills to compete in tournaments on an even playing field. Most of these tournaments are stroke play: you count your strokes on (...)
When we mentioned the All African Challenge Trophy (AACT) in our last column we frankly saw it as a natural extension of regional championships that might have been played for years in Africa, quite like those that exist throughout the world. What (...)
We have written about the need for Egyptians to work in the golf industry. Until now, most Egyptians working in the industry have been men who started out at a young age as caddies in one of the old clubs - Gezirah Sporting, Mena House or Alexandria (...)
A new season-long tournament organized by Golf in Egypt - and sponsored by Vodafone - is a sign of the sport's maturity in the country. Golfers in all the clubs will have a chance to play in more than 20 tournaments, all part of the Vodafone Golf (...)
Last month we talked about the golf courses as part of the development strategies of housing developments. Today, we will answer the question I get asked most often: Who is going to play on all the new golf courses in Egypt?
The easy answer is: (...)
Twelve years ago, golf in Egypt was the preserve of a few families, mostly longtime members of the Gezirah and Alexandria sporting clubs. A few hundred expatriates also played the game, mostly at the Mena House where they could have a beer or two (...)