{"id":310,"date":"2017-09-19T07:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T07:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2017-09-19T07:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T07:58:28","slug":"the-future-looks-bright-for-uae-golf-after-emirates-golf-federations-arabic-schools-initiative-supported-by-dp-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/the-future-looks-bright-for-uae-golf-after-emirates-golf-federations-arabic-schools-initiative-supported-by-dp-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Looks Bright For UAE Golf After Emirates Golf Federation\u2019s Arabic Schools Initiative Supported By DP World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of seeing a home-grown player from the United Arab Emirates making it on the world golfing stage is edging ever closer thanks to the ongoing success of a DP World funded Emirates Golf Federation (EGF) Arabic Schools Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative programme, which is also supported by the European Tour, launched last year with the first phase seeing the Emirates Golf Federation with the assistance of Golf DXB, visiting six UAE schools to give \u2018Golf Taster\u2019 sessions to over 3,000 students. Fifty children were also treated to a visit to the European Tour\u2019s season-ending tournament, the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates, where they had a \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 tour to get a taste of what is involved in running a world-class golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-311 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/P1330184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/P1330184.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/P1330184-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/P1330184-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/P1330184-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of seeing a home-grown player from the United Arab Emirates making it on the world golfing stage is edging ever closer thanks to the ongoing success of a DP World funded Emirates Golf Federation (EGF) Arabic Schools Initiative. The innovative programme, which is also supported by the European Tour, launched last year with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}