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There was for instance an aura about Kitante that made the entry to the club house seem like a military quarter guard.

Competition was equally restricted to in-house contests.

These were more of opportunities for members to massage their egos with weekly nett competitions.

There were always a wide range of trophies- one of which even catered for the worst player!

This closed community only opened up to the outside world once a year with the Uganda Open.

It’s at such occasions that true golf talents like the late Sadi Onito, Dedan Kagonyera and Juma Jaffar also expressed themselves.

The trend has however lately changed thanks to some liberal minded leaders like Jim Muhwezi.

Of course, there has also been criticism in columns like this.

One of my colleagues Kenneth Matovu (RIP) passionately battled for this cause.

The golf community has, like a free market economy today, loosened up to the forces of sport.

You no longer have the Mafuta Mingi restricting entry.

The result is a surge of young talent that has boosted local golf to unprecedented levels.

Players like Dennis Onyango, who put up some fine golf at the just concluded Uganda Open, are a product of UGC’s outreach policy to tap talents in institutions like Makerere University.

A fast growing professional circuit is one of the testimonies of growth.

The past fortnight that had Uganda hosting nine coun...

He asked that the embarrassing errors and the complicated rules be discussed in an open forum.

In retrospect, he probably knew that John Wright, head of the Players' Tournament Committee, would follow after him to candidly admit that the panel of officials overseeing the game on the field goofed up.

Declining to blame any individual, or even the body of officials, Jayawardene displayed a heightened sense of understanding of the game by calling for the issue to be debated in an open forum in the future.

And then came the slight hint of emotion.

"For me I can't say much.

We played a final and lost a final." Having led his team astutely, the Sri Lankan captain went on to highlight their achievements.

"I am very proud of the boys.

We put in some great effort.

When we left Sri Lanka, we knew we were a good team, but no one expected us to be in the final.

Lifetime opportunity "I believe we proved a lot of people wrong, purely because of the way we worked.

Yes, I am disappointed at losing because this was a lifetime opportunity, but it was taken away by a brilliant knock from Gilli [Gilchrist].

"It was a brilliant innings," endorsed Jayawardene.

"Unfortunately as an opposing captain, all I could do was stand and watch.

But Gilli had done the same to us in a VB series final a...

Turn on the TV on a Saturday morning and children get a steady diet of commercials for McDonald’s, Eggo waffles (with the syrup baked in), and rapping SpaghettiOs that promise “your mouth will really groove.” “There’s no strong message there to choose grapes or bananas,” said J.

Michael McGinnis, who directed the Institute’s congressionally mandated study.

The Kaiser report, which was released in March, quantified just how many food ads kids were viewing in 2005.

Children ages 8 to 12, known as “tweens,” saw the most food ads, an average of 7,600 a year.

And 34 percent of the ads targeted at children peddled candy and snacks, while 28 percent promoted cereal.

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Lee Peeler, executive vice president for advertising self-regulation at the Council of Better Business Bureaus, said his organisation will review the pledges and regularly audit whether the big food companies are keeping their word.

While the Kaiser study could find scant evidence in 2005 of public-service ads promoting healthy eating, the popular children’s network Nickelodeon said it is expanding efforts to encourage youngsters to eat well and stay fit.

But that progress has yet to reach Tamika Morgan’s family.

Her son Izaiah Busby-Morgan, 10, participates in the weight-loss program at Boston Medical.

His pleas...