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Fresh from her trophy-winning endeavours at the recent Bahrain British Business Forum 4-ball Texas Scramble at the Royal Golf Club’s Wee Monty course, Bridget Lindsay, the wife of British Ambassador to Bahrain, Iain, was trying out her putting prowess on an even smaller arena.
She was the guest of honour at the Dilmun Club in Saar and cutting the ribbon on its new Allied Pickfords Mini Golf Course, believed to be the kingdom’s only floodlit adventure golfing facility.
She was joined by the careful movers’ director Marcus Peck, his father Mervyn, Allied Pickfords managing director, club chairman Martin Allison, division manager – fire & gas of Pan Gulf Industrial Systems who are sponsoring the scorecards for the nine-hole 2-par course, and Mark Rowe, the Dilly’s general manager.
Bridget, who is currently having golfing lessons and is a relative newcomer to the game, three-putted the first hole and blamed the hapless GulfWeekly photographer for getting in her way. “It’s great fun and I’m really beginning to enjoy playing,” she said.
Each hole of the crazy course has a name associated with the kingdom. The first is called the BIC after the Bahrain International Circuit’s first corner, number two is the Tree of Life described as ‘an impossible hole’ with a tricky plant to manoeuvre around, the third is the Lost Paradise of Dilmun (LPOD) because it boasts a water feature, number four is the camel farm with a hazardous hump, the fifth is shaped like the Bull’s Head refreshment area logo, the Financial Harbour’s twin towers shine brightly on the sixth, the Sitra ‘tunnel’ turns up on number seven, eight is simply called ‘diversion’ and the Saudi Causeway makes an appearance on the final hole.
The course was designed by Allison and Rowe and constructed by the club’s maintenance men in a month. It costs BD1 for members to play the course of which 100 fils will be donated to cancer research, a cause close to the heart of Mr Peck senior who is a cancer survivor.
