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Golfers…the Sultans of swing?

By Cambrian, Financial Consultant, Cambrian Advisory Services

     Have you ever wondered what drives people to spend a perfectly good day swacking hi-tech balls around a synthetic landscape with a selection of tools that, in appearance, are poorly designed for the task. We think we now know.

     The 10^th of June marked the occasion of the 1^st Cambrian Invitational Golf Challenge, kindly sponsored  by our good friends at Zurich International Life, represented in the goodly form of Steve Greenfield, their Director for Africa. The chosen venue for the event was the sweeping, verdant, mounds  of the Golf City Course in El Abour.. Peter Partridge the Golf Manager gave the greens the once over with his phillishave, switched the buggy motors to turbo and threw a farewell to the sixty-odd players as their machines whined into the distance like a battalion of Ice Cream vendors.

     I am a poor golfer. If my body was ever designed for the kind of supple sweeping movements that the game requires it has long since surrendered the will to do so. In my hands irons become devices for hacking holes in turf and a wood is a missile for the butter-fingered, capable of out-distancing any mere golf-ball. This day, real golfers were relieved to find that I was satisfied to do my share of the event management and leave the clubs in the pro shop where I usually rent them.

     So the day began. Golfers thrashing their way through the first of eighteen holes in a cheery assortment of clothing – clearly designed to distract the opponent – and their respective families languishing by the pool or the clubhouse terrace. The sun shone down benignly on all with just a whisper of breeze to keep the worst of the heat at bay.  All the concerns, the headaches and worries of organising such an event were reduced to nothing as the tournament commenced. There was no more time for planning, no great changes to be made; the die were cast and apart from checking that players maintained a steady intake of fluids little could be done but join in the fun.

And fun it was. Everybody made steady progress around the course with few real problems and apart from the obvious need to keep the drinks cool and flowing we were all, organisers and guests alike, able to take advantage of the green and pleasant surroundings for a day of relaxation.

     The day concluded with a brief but useful presentation from Steve Greenfield, a delicious buffet prepared by the Golf City chef and a few well earned drinks as the prizes were presented. Thanks are due to Steve Greenfield and Zurich International Life for their generous support, the Golf City team, in particular Peter Partridge and his extremely capable staff and last but not least the players and their families without whose smiling faces and cheery dispositions the day would not have been the success that it was. Thanks to all.