Turkey: A Goat Herder Turns Golf Champion | European Journal

Fifteen-year-old Özlem Aktürk lives in Ardahan in the far east of Anatolia,one of Turkey's poorest regions. Özlem dreams of a career as a professional golfer. She regularly practices her drives and putts with a group of other teenagers.Even when she is looking after goats,she uses her crook as a golf club. But in the Youth Golf Tournament in far-away Istanbul,she encounters another world. Children from wealthy families who all have their own caddies. Özlem has to tote her heavy caddy herself. Has her strenuous training paid off?