-The event was Bayer’s second golf tournament this year with the first having taken place at the Nakuru golf club early March and next action moves to Nandi Bears club in June this year.
DOUGLAS MWALE-IMG KENYA LIMITED.
Home player John Kitaka shot an impressive round of 47 points to emerge the overall winner of the Machakos golf club leg of the Bayer East Africa golf series played on Saturday,22nd, March 2025 in Machakos County.
Playing off handicap 19 Kitaka’s score was six points better than that of his nearest challenger Patrick Marang’u whose efforts saw him claim the top spot in the men’s category with 41 points.
Clinching the runner-up spot in the category was Joe Mboya playing off handicap 17 who shot a round of 39 points.
Completely the podium places in the category was Victor Mutwii playing off handicap 11 with 38 points on the scorecard.
Amongst the lady golfers Angelina Mutuku playing off handicap 32 emerged the winner with 37 points, one point ahead of handicap 10 Mwongeli Nzioka who carded a round of 36 points.
Taking third spot in the lady’s category was Florence Riungu with a shot a round of 35 points and playing off handicap 24.
Handicap 22 Isaac Kamau from Vetlab Sports Club emerged the top guest winner at the event after carding a round of 39 points.
He was only two points better than handicap 26 Timothy Rintari who managed 37 points to clinch runner-up spot in the category.
In the subsidiaries Mathew Mutambu playing off handicap 53 was the men’s winner with 41 points, whilst Purity Kioko was crowned the lady winner with 40 points.
Handicap 32 John Kinyua on 21 points and handicap 31 Anthony Mwirigi with 22 points were the first and second nine winners respectively.
In the longest drive challenge Terra Saidimu and Nancy Kariuki emerged victors in the men’s and ladies’ categories respectively while Vincent Musalia won the nearest-to-the-pin award.
A field of 132 golfers took part in the tournament which was sponsored by Bayer East Africa Limited as part of the company’s corporate outreach strategy.
The event was Bayer’s second golf tournament this year with the first having taken place at the Nakuru Golf Club on the 8th of March.
The firm plans on hosting six other events this year across the country to build on last year’s success where it held ten golf tournaments.
Bayer East Africa Limited Marketing and Communication Specialist Isabellah Magale said, “Today we had 130 players on the course and the reason why we chose Machakos as a destination for our golf tournament is because Machakos is the land of smallholder farmers, and we wanted to interact with them as well as link up with our distributor who sell our seeds and crop protection solutions to the farmers, “said Magale.
She pointed out that Bayer has been sponsoring golf for the last 10 years where they host several events every year and Last year they held a series of ten events across ten different golf clubs in the country.
“This was part of our 50-year celebrations for one of our products, while this year, we aim to have about eight events. We started off at the Nakuru Golf Club before coming to Machakos for the second event and We plan to have six more events across the country as part of our strategic engagements and look forward to engaging events with our stakeholders, “said Magale.
The series moves to the Nandi Bears club in June this year.
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