GOLF IN EGYPT: Getting a Second Wind

Byآ Tom Olson First Published:آ Augustآ 8,آ 2008 Junior golfer of the Year Hussein Mahfouz with Chrissie Evert. 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 grow old and fat.â€‌ For those who know me, you may think it was a pointed remark. Two weeks ago, golf superstar Greg Norman spent a few days in Egypt at the end of his honeymoon with new bride Chris Evert. For those of us who had seen him on an earlier trip to oversee the course his company designed for SODIC’s spectacular Allegria development off the Alexandria desert highway, Norman seemed like a changed man — cheery, animated, smiling, signing autographs,... [read full story]