Different Continent. Same Little White Ball.

The place

Royal Nairobi is not a tourist extra. It is a Nairobi institution: colonial bones, Kenyan present, and a golf course that has watched the city grow around it. Playing here is a homecoming for anyone with roots in Kenya and a first for anyone who thinks golf only lives in milder latitudes. The altitude changes the ball. The setting changes the day. The game, inconveniently, remains the game.

What it asks of you: Sometimes you have to leave your familiar surroundings to discover something new about yourself.

JW’s personal notes from the round will live here — the funny moment, the people, the 19th hole — without inventing what hasn’t been written yet.