Despite unrest, golf in Gulf States should last | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Everyone we met was so happy — well, almost everyone. The Gulf States that photographer Dom Furore and I visited the last two weeks of January were surrounded by political violence while we were there, from Tunisia and Egypt to the north to Yemen in the south and Iran on the other side of the Persian Gulf — or the Arabian Gulf, as it is called in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The segment of the population we met was well taken care of by their government. But that is only part of the story. There was a level of dissatisfaction simmering just below the surface in a portion of the population that does not have much of a voice — and that was the portion that exploded in violence in Bahrain this week.

The indigenous population of the Arabian Peninsula have it pretty good. They pay no taxes, get …