In the leisure and sport course, we
had been assigned an interview, and research a club or organization to colleagues.
Let's start this out, by saying that during this task we faced a great obstacle,
which was that our group is used to work as individuals, and not as a team. So to
sort this out, we started first by talking to each other, getting aware of
our skills and strengths, and then assigning the tasks among us.
We initially selected Al Forsan club as our course project.
However, it's been said: "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go
awry", and it was exactly what happened with us. Al Forsan didn't reply to
us, and when we encountered them, all we got from them was a promise to be
contacted soon. Unfortunately as you might guess this didn't go so well. After
we couldn’t secure an interview with them, Abdalrahaman suggested to select
Alghazal Golf Club instead, and so we did.
We went ahead with our plan B, and while it wasn't our initial
choice, the name of this club, brought a great interest to our group members, specifically
with all the strangeness surrounding its name; which made us wonder how this
club name is correlated to gazelles (Ghazal in Arabic) and golf as a sport.
Moving forward, our main goal of this course project is to benefit
our colleagues, and that's why we selected this club. We tried through this
project to learn about golf, and be informative as well to others. Yet, in
general we didn't want to be biased towards golf, so we were open to
everything the club offered.
Before the trip, all of our group members didn't have a clue
about golf beside it’s a game where you have to hit a ball inside a hole.
Moreover, we were interested to learn if the club offers other sports and facilities
beside golf, and what does Alghazal Golf Club offers for our society, and in
which way it could benefit us.
At the beginning of this journey, we
collected information about this club from the internet. After that, we
arranged a meeting with Alghazal golf club manager and the marketing
department. In addition, we collected our main information in person though
observing the facilities and looking around the club. With this in mind, Mr.
Sid, the manager of Al Ghazal club was a great assistance to us. He gave us a
lot of interesting information regarding the club.
We found many interesting things
during our trip. For example, the site where Alghazal club is located, is
actually more than seven thousand years old. At that time, there were people
who used to live in the club place. Given this point, the reason behind the
name is also associated to the past as there were many gazelles used to live in
the club's region. Furthermore, this club is the only golf club in Abu Dhabi
that offers "desert golfing".
Regarding the results, we asked when
Alghazal golf club was established which was in 1997. However one aspect that
surprised us, and specifically as mentioned earlier was that the club place was
formed on a seven thousands years old ground.
They have a certificate from geologist to confirm this.
Another unexpected result was when
we asked them if there are any Emiratis coming to play golf at Al Ghazal Golf Club. They told us, yes and every year the number of locals are increasing
and even shows more interest towards this sport.
The information provided is linked to
society as Emiratis are showing interest towards golf. Moreover, golf itself is
a sport which is related to our course. In addition, Al Ghazal club have as
well a football field, and archery. Futhermore, the club offers many leisure
facilities like a relaxing environment, and even a restaurant. So over all,
this trip was related to our course “LSS 3003".
All in all, there are many skills required to finish our project successfully. Like, we need to be clear when we
communicate with the organization to request interview permission. In
addition, we should be working as team players and not like individuals. As a
group, our weakness is eliminated and, our strengths are getting honed by other
members. All of these are key ingredients to make this case study successful.
In my opinion, I think the results
of our case study must be shared with ADMC’s students. Most of us didn’t know
about golfing and neither had we had an idea regarding Al Ghazal Golf Club.
This case study made us aware about this special place, and to learn more about
a unique sport that is golf. The
location itself for this club is in a quiet, pollution free zone.
If we had to do this case study
again, we would carry an actual camera instead of our cellphones. Besides that,
I don’t see how we could improve it even more. The reasons behind this, is that
we put all our efforts into this project, and if we did it again we would still
be doing it the same.
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