Wilson Chan and Ramona Strydom have won hospitality passes to the Friday and Saturday of the Nov.1-4 Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open respectively.

Related: Cheyenne Woods lured to headline FBMLO

Kerstin Drossard-Schumacher has won a complimentary fourball at the Troon International showpiece Saadiyat Beach G.C., the home of the FBMLO.

Hannah Mannion and Shawn Welgemoed, meanwhile, have won hospitality passes on the Wednesday and Saturday of the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic from Dec. 6-9.

Related: Troy Mullins set to rip it past major champion I.K. Kim and co. in rebranded Omega Dubai Ladies “Classic”

There’s still oodles of great prizes to be won – including Pro-Am spots and hospitality passes to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and Omega Dubai Desert and Dubai Ladies Classics, fourball vouchers to leading UAE courses and a 10k AED Callaway voucher – so be sure to enter today. We’ll be announcing winners every Thursday.

Click here to take the 2017 Golf Digest Middle East Reader Survey and win BIG!

Entries close December 31, 2017 but enter today to increase your chances of winning.

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Harini White is off to the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open Pro-Am on October 31 ahead of the second edition of the Ladies European Tour event at Saadiyat Beach G.C. from Nov. 1-4. Before then Guy Williams and Casper Schonfeldt will tee it up in the Golf Digest Middle East team at the Dubai Creek UAE PGA Pro-Am next Monday, Oct. 16.

The winners were drawn at random from all correct entries received in the first week of our 100th issue giveaway. Incredibly, Williams and Schonfeldt both won divisions at the most recent Golf Digest Middle East Amateur Series event at Al Hamra G.C. – and clearly took our plea to enter our 2017 Reader Survey at the time seriously.

Related: Springboks fan wins Golf Digest Middle East event at Al Hamra

There’s still oodles of great prizes to be won – including Pro-Am spots and hospitality passes to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and Omega Dubai Desert and Dubai Ladies Classics, fourball vouchers to leading UAE courses and a 10k AED Callaway voucher – so be sure to enter today. We’ll be announcing winners every Thursday.

Click here to take the 2017 Golf Digest Middle East Reader Survey here and win BIG! 

Entries close December 31, 2017 but enter today to increase your chances of winning.

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As well as the chance to win some amazing prizes, we’ve marked the milestone by taking a contemporary spin on many of the features that appeared in our launch issue back in November 2008.

Related: Take our 2017 Reader Survey and win BIG!

The most obvious replication starts right up front where Dubai amateur sensation Rayhan Thomas steps out of the shadows of U.S. singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake to deservedly earn his second Golf Digest ME cover within a year.

The 17-year-old Indian, now up to a career-high 23rd place in the latest Amateur World Golf Rankings (WAGR), also stars in our bumper 30-page “9 for 9” feature which celebrates nine pivotal contributions to the local game during the nine years we’ve been in print.

Inside, we explore what’s next for Thomas, both from a swing and career progression standpoint, while reflecting on his world record-tying birdie blitz during last month’s MENA Tour event at Dubai Creek and his unforgettable Jnr Presidents Cup debut.

Timberlake might have taken the most prominent piece of real estate in our first issue but the key story inside was the impending launch of the Race to Dubai. Ninety nine issues later we sit down for a fascinating one-on-one with a needle-shifting powerbroker from the first issue. The chat with David Spencer is as illuminating as those purple socks he rocked in the subsequent photoshoot.

We’ve also given Thomas’ coach, Justin Parsons, the full treatment. The Northern Irishman is Dubai’s coach to the stars – and not all of them golfers with some neat pictures of cricket demigod Sachin Tendulkar and Hollywood A-lister Will Smith included.

Former Open champion Darren Clarke makes a plea for greater support of the MENA Tour and we meet the character behind the kandura that is Mohamed Juma Buamaim. You also won’t want to miss the fascinating interview with Peter Harradine as the always outspoken Dubai-based Swiss architect opens up on the curse of the contemporary “Championship course” designs.

One of our favourite reflections is a before and after equipment test with Jumeriah Golf Estates 3.8-handicapper Philip Sharpe. We won’t give too much away but you won’t believe the results the Cobra Golf tragic achieved when we got him on the X-Golf simulator at eGolf Megastore.

With a swing tip from UAE PGA champion Cennydd Mills and previews ahead of the Ras Al Khaimah 2017 Golf Challenge and European Challenge Tour’s season-deciding NBO Golf Classic Grand Fina in Muscat, plus the LET’s Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open at Saadiyat Beach, you’ll go a long way to find more in-depth local coverage.

Throw in tips from Butch and Claude Harmon, tuition features penned by newly crowned PGA Tour Player-of-the-Year Justin Thomas and world No. 5 Jon Rahm and an amazing “Shots I can’t explain” piece from Jack Nicklaus, and our 100th issue is, well, one in a hundred.

Grab your copy today and get winning!

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