Fore! In Iran, golf remains a game of the elite
Iranian golfers compete during Iran's National Golf Tournament at Engelhab sports club in Tehran. – AFP pic, March 1, 2015. The bumpy fairways and patchy putting surfaces – more burnt-out browns than grassy greens – are not much to look at. In the same way that the streets of Tehran got new names when the Islamic republic dramatically came into being in 1979, so did the Engelhab ("Revolution" in Farsi) Club. Iran's only recognised golf course has had a fairly rough time since. Somewhat starved of attention, and perhaps a greenkeeper, it ...
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