Lady Captain’s Message

MARIVI ARIAS LADY CAPTAIN, EMIRATES GOLF CLUB

Dear Members

Only a few days from closing the gap between 2022 and 2023, here I am, sitting at Lima International Airport, waiting to board the plane that will take me back to Dubai.

Looking back to what has happened the last three months, brings back so many fun memories shared with our Emirates Golf Club Ladies.

The memories start coloured in pink! Our traditional and popular Pink Ball in October brought the feeling that our golfing session was already in full swing. The ladies looked so pretty dressed in so many tones of pink. As always the gol of the day was to spread awareness about breast cancer in a colourful and happy way. That day we had the fortune to have a fantastic guest speaker during the Pink Ball launch. Dr Kinda Douaidari, a well known breast interventional radiologist in Dubai who gave us a well prepared speech about Brest cancer and how to be alert to prevent it.

November started in a very scary way…it was the turn to play our Halloween Scramble. Between monsters in the middle of fairways and skeletons coming out of their tombs, we play dressed as witches, pumpkins, lady spiders, skeletons and death itself! Chef Dayan presented us with an incredible buffet. The food came in the form of spider webs, pumkings, bloody fingers, scary ghosts and lost eyeballs. His imagination and talent to adapt tasty food to any occasion is remarkable. Its certainly never a dull moment among the Ladies Section.

Very soon after Halloween, we played the Diwali Tournament, as always so popular and well organised, not forgetting the delicious food that waited for us after the game.

We had a full house that day, the cherry of the cake was given by the ladies who participated in the tournament dressed in beautiful traditional Indian dresses for the prize giving dinner. A special recognition to our lady member Rekha Bandopadhyay who’s efforts made of the Diwali Tournament a success.

December arrived with the promise of another super fun tournament…our Christmas Scramble. I’m so glad we took so many pictures of the day!! I had the privilege of getting our lovely ladies dressed as Christmas trees, snow ladies, snow flakes, sexy Christmas wreaths, ladies in Christmas pyjamas, and the best of all…ladies as Christmas Snow Shakers!!! Something never seen before.

Remembering all this moments just shortly before 2023 starts, makes me so proud to be the lady Captain of this wonderful bunch of ladies. Always so ready to have fun, always so creative and imaginative, always so happy and always so committed and proud to be members of the Emirates Golf Club Ladzies Section.

My tribute to everyone of my fellow lady members, you make the section shine, you make your lady Captain very proud, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.