DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – President Donald Trump has already played an incredible amount of golf in his first 100 days. He says he needs the break. I sympathize. In fact, I need a break, too – from him, from writing about his relentless assault on truth and science. It’s toxic. So I break today to write about golf – in Dubai, where I recently participated in an education conference.
You run into the most unexpected characters here – especially on the golf course – which is where our story begins.
So a Hindu, a Muslim and a Jew are playing golf together in Dubai
Sounds like the first line of a joke, right? Actually, it’s the first line of one of those serendipitous stories that often happen when you play golf abroad. In my case, I was invited to play at the Emirates Club with a UAE education expert and the famed Indian mystic, poet and yogi Jaggi Vasudev, who goes by his reverential name, Sadhguru.
Sadhguru is the founder of Isha, an Indian-based humanitarian and environmental movement with millions of followers (and some critics, too) – several of whom I could tell were at the course.