He enjoyed the sport, not only because he was great at it, but because he came to realise many of Tanzania’s most successful businessmen and his father’s friends concluded many deals on the fairway. Keen to develop his son’s golfing prowess, Gulam Dewji sent
a teenage Mohammed to the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy in Orlando, Florida. Dewji ended up attending Saddlebrook High School, also in Florida. A few years later, Dewji decided to abandon his dream of playing professionally, going on to study International Business and Finance at Georgetown University.
[My father] said I was chasing pennies in New York and helping the Americans build their economy, whereas there was a family business to run, and fortunes to be made in Tanzania