Nairobi, Aug. 27 -- You can dress like Tiger Woods, swing the best clubs money can buy, and still walk off the ninth hole with nothing to show for it, says Michael Njogu of golf.

"Because the game, like the rest of it, punishes distraction and rewards patience in roughly equal, unpredictable doses," he says.

He says golf is the game of life, though he'd rather you didn't ask him to prove it on the course. It gives you, he says, "instant satisfaction and instant disappointment in equal measure."

Lose focus for a second, and it's gone. It is a fitting philosophy for a man who turns 50 this week, in the same seven days his company, Sense of Africa, a destination management company and a division of Tourvest Holdings, South Africa's touris...