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Pictures: Golfing in Cuba – Baltimore Sun


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Pictures: Golfing in Cuba
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Recently it hosted two one-day pro-am tournaments featuring half a dozen Cuban golfers paired with wealthy foreigners. Here are some images of golf in Cuba, then and now. Decked out in his everyday – everything uniform , Cuban Prime Minister Fidel

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Cuba ready for golfing revolution

Under Fidel Castro’s rule, golf was all but eliminated in Cuba, but the bourgeois sport of the West is poised for a comeback on the communist-run island.

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Cuba ready for golfing revolution – CNN


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Cuba ready for golfing revolution
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(CNN) — Under Fidel Castro's rule, golf was all but eliminated in Cuba, but the bourgeois sport of the West is poised for a comeback on the communist-run island. Castro and Che Guevara famously staged a golf match to antagonize then-US president

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Cuba moves to allow foreigners lease land – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

HAVANA – Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years – potentially touching off a golf-course building boom – and loosening state …

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Teeing off: Cuba to develop golfing – BBC News

Teeing off: Cuba to develop golfing
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The government of the Caribbean island of Cuba is attempting to attract wealthy visitors by allowing the development of golf courses.

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New Cuba laws could drive boom in golfing – Asheville Citizen-Times

The moves, published into law in the Official Gazette on Thursday and Friday and effective immediately, are significant steps as President Raul Castro promises to scale back the communist nation’s control of …

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Golfing in Cuba: Are the communists really game? – New Haven Register

VARADERO, Cuba — The two revolutionary icons were playing the gentlemen’s game in fatigues and combat boots. They weren’t playing well. Che Guevara shot a 127, besting Fidel Castro’s 150 on a par-70 golf course. Their 1961 round a month …

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