Honorees — Morocco-America Friendship Cup

Bush (left) served as U.S. Ambassador to Morocco under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. During that time, Bush fortified the already strong relations between America and the Kingdom, which in 1777 became the first country to recognize the newly-achieved independence of the United States. And he continued to advance amity between those lands and their peoples long after he left his post. Those efforts are what led the Friendship Cup founders to name Bush its first honoree.

A noted journalist and the author of 26 books, Steinbreder has reported on the game of golf for more than three decades. He first traveled to Morocco in 1995 and has since visited it on 14 other occasions, producing along the way dozens of print and digital magazine articles on golf in the Kingdom as well as a history of the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat. Steinbreder’s passion for the sport is matched only by his enthusiasm for Morocco, which is what also led him to help establish the Friendship Cup. And his tireless promotion of the country as a golf destination makes him a worthy honoree for the 2024 edition of the competition.