Hijabs No Bar For The Course - As Golf Sessions For Muslims Prove
The Guardian|June 06, 2022
Last weekend, something unusual happened at Walton Heath golf club, one of the world's top courses whose first captain became King Edward VIII and which has counted four prime ministers, including Winston Churchill, among its members.
Harriet Sherwood
Hijabs No Bar For The Course - As Golf Sessions For Muslims Prove

The prestigious club, set amid Surrey heathland, first hosted the English Ladies Championship in 1914. A century later, it launched a Ladies Academy to encourage more women to take up the sport.

But the group that took to the fairway on 29 May broke new barriers. "We're female, we're women of colour and some of us are women who cover," said Ambereen Khan, referring to the hijab that she and some of her friends wear.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 06, 2022 من The Guardian.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 06, 2022 من The Guardian.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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