The Moroccan Major

"An experience like this expands your golf knowledge exponentially"

- EAL on the shuttle bus back from Noria Golf Links.

GOLF IS BETTER, TOGETHER

The best part of golf isn't always the score, it's the places you go and the people you meet along the way. From our events to our stories, everything we do is built around making the game more open, a lot more fun, and something that sticks with you long after the final putt.

I was fortunate enough to get one of the 20 slots to play golf in Marrakech, Morocco. Just golf; no real time for tourist stuff although there were some small windows in the schedule to see things. 8 rounds, 6 days.

We were greeted at the airport by a shuttle driver to take us to our hotel for the week; he was picking up everyone on the non-stop flight from Atlanta and another flight that came in 15 minutes later. He had an 8 passenger van, not an 8 passenger van for golfers. So a second van was summoned.

Holy water for the pilgrimage

Sunday was arrival and intro day. Trying to remember names of 20+ random strangers is not my strong suit. Luckily, there were a few Erik's, Jakes and a set of brothers. Only a few folks actually knew each other from one of the two prior Major events.

Sunday night was watching the Masters accounting for the 5 hour time difference only after someone Bogarted the game room TV with their HDMI cord and a laptop.

Monday 4/13- Samanah

The Atlas Mountains hang in the background all week. Sadly, the haze blocked them in after Wednesday's rounds. Fun factoid: the Anti-Atlas, AKA the Lesser Atlas, just beyond the Atlas range are the exact same mountain range as the Appalachians in North America.