Dar es Salaam, June 5 -- THE official launch of the new Serengeti National Park Golf Course, nestled at Fort Ikoma within the Wildlife Management Area border ing Serengeti National Park, was sup posed to be a grand affair. The Tanzania National Parks Au thority (TANAPA) had planned to un veil the course with considerable fanfare by end of May 2026. But the event was postponed.

For a group of incurable golf ad dicts, however, postponement was never going to mean cancellation. My friends Ally Azzan, Francis Kiwanga and I had been eagerly anticipating the occasion for months.

When the launch was called off, we decided somebody had to break the ice. Why wait for speeches, ribbon-cutting ceremonies and official photographs when the fairways ...