Dubai's New Golf Advisor: Golf Needs To Put On Olympic Show

Dubai's new governmental golf advisor and former R&A Chief Peter Dawson covers a variety of topics with The Scotsman.

Speaking to Martin Dempster, Dawson boldly suggests that Olympic golf must put on a "good show" even though the 60-player fields and 72-hole stroke play format make the event susceptible to a runaway winner.

“There is an increasing buzz among the players, men and women, about the prospect of competing,” added Dawson. “Golf needs to put up a good show at the Olympics and secure its position in the Games. Not only have we in golf worked hard on the event and the facilities, but we’ve also worked very hard about being a good member of the Olympic team. That’s very important, too.”

But you're only still reading because you want to know about Dawson's efforts to improve golf in Dubai.

In his Dubai role, which has already involved a personal audience with Sheikh Mohammed,

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Dawson’s brief is to use his expertise to come up with ideas on how to build on golf’s solid footing in the emirate. “I’ve started by talking to all sorts of stakeholders, clubs, managers there, Government departments, making sure that golf being offered in Dubai is as excellent as Dubai’s 
general reputation,” he said.

“It’s just making sure that everything that can be improved is improved, and I’ll be making some recommendations in due course. But I have to say that we have the luxury of operating from a very strong base, which is great. There’s 
a lot of good brains, a lot of hard-working people.”

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