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The idea that golf is a game of rich people is widely prevalent in all parts of the world, golf is made for the rich to spend their free time as they have a lot of money, is this idea correct? How much does golf cost? How are the groups of society that play golf distributed? How do we change the community perspective to the game?
The American Dustin Johnson won his first title of the year on Sunday taking home the title the Saudi International, the second in the history of the tournament, the tournament concluded on Sunday at the Royal Greens GC in Jeddah.
Recently, the debate has intensified over long hitters, players who can hit long drivers with a distance reaching or exceeding 350 yards. The governing bodies of the game, namely the United States Golf Association ( USGA) and The R&A in Britain, began some time ago to study the issue in what is known as distance insights and move towards recommending some adjustments to the length of the clubs and as well as adding recommendations for local rules to try and curb the spread of this phenomenon, which they fear will affect the game negatively.
The European Tour desert swing which is currently held in the Middle East, will continue this week with the third edition of the Saudi International Championship held at Royal Greens in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This year’s edition is witnessing a large participation of the game’s biggest stars, headed with world number one Dustin Johnson.
On Sunday American Golf player Patrick Reed won the Farmers Insurance Open at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California. Reed, who finished the tournament with a comfortable five-stroke win over second place that was shared by five players.
England’s Paul Casey won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday, winning his fifteenth title in his career in the European Tour. Casey won on Sunday with a score of minus seventeen under par, four strokes ahead of second-place South African Brandon Stone.
The first European Golfer to win The Masters tournament, one of the greatest and charismatic golfers of all time, born and raised in a farm family in Spain, his success story inspired many golfers around the world.
With the completion of the second day of the thirty-second edition of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic championship, the question of when we will see an Arab player competing with world players comes to mind again, even after 32 editions of the Championship in Dubai, we find that the only two Arab players participating in the tournament have finished in the last and penultimate places.
Within the framework of the desert swing that is currently being held in the Middle East, this week’s European Tour travels to Dubai to hold the second tournament of the season, the prestigious Omega Dubai Desert Classic tournament, which will be held at the Emirates Golf Club. This year’s tournament will witness the participation of the brightest golf stars across the world headed by American star Morikawa.
On Sunday the South Korean Si Woo Kim won the American Express Championship to claim his third PGA Tour Career title. Patrick Cantlay was close …
