-She attributes success to an ‘early bird catches the worm’ after joining the day’s sunrise team;
-But at Kakamega, the course turned against its own green keeper Ronald Omondi taking home the best effort prize giving victory to Nyanza club’s Irene Wagumba;
MAARUFU MOHAMED-GOLFNEWSLINKS;
Home club’s Sandra Githere’s bid to join the sunrise team paid off to a double victory in this year’s second edition of ‘Sotet’ golf tournament played at the par 71 Sea-Link Mombasa golf course in Mombasa County on Saturday.
The handicap 17 Sandra carded an excellent 42 Stableford points to emerge the overall winner and also emerged the best lady gross winner with 83 gross while handicap 8 George Githinji 77 gross was the man gross winner.
Sandra who is also a Director at the club attributed the victory to an ‘early bird that catches the warm,’ God and boasting of coming from a family of the Wahomes’ with a strong background of love for golf.
“It has been a great day tonight. We are early risers and clearly this proves that the early bird catches the worm as we teed off at 6am. And as you all know; we are a family of good golfers known as the ‘Wahomes’ that is now proved today by my win. I would like to thank my four-ball team of Gabriel Gakuo, Kamami Njoroge, Wanjiku Kinyeru and the Almighty God for the gift of life. My appreciation also goes to the club’s green keeper for maintaining a good course and all the organizers for making this tournament successful and enjoyable, “said Sandra who is also a director at the club, “said Sandra.
This daylong 18-hole stable ford tournament was hosted by the ‘Sotet’ Golfers Association under the theme “Celebrating Culture and Diversity” composed of golfers from Mombasa, the North and South Rift Valley.
The tournament brought together 150 golfers from the home club, Nyali, Diamond Leisure, Malindi, Kericho, Eldoret and others from Nairobi and western parts of Kenya.
It was jointly sponsored by Job Tea, Mintos Salon, Hotel Saphire, Unga Ni Taifa, Villa Becky, Khushi Motors, Kericho Gold, Pauland, Halal Tea, Travellers Beach Hotel and Vijay Optica among others.
Handicap 14 Peter Kimanga was the men winner on 42 points while handicap 25 Salim Taib on 41 points and handicap 18 Japhet Obonyo with 40 points were the runners up and third placed respectively.
Taib said he lost the overall lead after two points was deducted from his scores as penalty for delaying by five minutes to tee off time since he had gone for the lunchtime prayers at a nearby mosque.
The club’s lady Captain Fiona Mbandi playing off handicap 36 was the lady winner on a score of 41 points beating handicap 32 Constance Achila to the runners up spot by a single point difference and handicap 34 Sarah Tuwei was third with 40 points.
Fidel Wasike playing off handicap 7 carded 30 points to win the junior prize and left-handed golfer Elijah Ibua playing off handicap 19 brought 35 points to win the Senior prize.
The sponsor prize was won on 38 points by handicap 38 Cheruto Serem while handicap 20 Eunice Korir on 31 points claimed the guest prize as handicap 29 George Gachanja with 39 points and handicap 51 Rosemary Thuo on 37 points were the high handicapper Man and Lady winners respectively.
This tournament is aimed at celebrating the heritage and rich Kalenjin culture where the golfers were treated to a taste of ‘Mursit’ and sampled more foods like ‘Artet’, ‘Kimyetapbeek’ and ‘Kipeketinik.
The ‘Sotet’ Vice-Chairman Edwin Kiptoo who represented the Chairman Eliud Bett said the event was successful and was a center of celebration of excellence, heritage, and the rich Kalenjin culture that brought tradition, sport, and some seriously fun vibes to the Sea-front.
Kiptoo thanked the club and all the golfers for making it a success and promised the tournament will continue to be hosted with a cultural background aimed at promoting community engagement and fostering strong relations between various businesses, corporates and friends in the Coastal region.
“Sotet-is our calabash that we use to make ‘Mursik’ which is the ‘Kalenjin’ traditional milk and the event that was grazed by golfers from all over the country to celebrate culture and diversity was indeed successful and will be bigger next year,” said Kiptoo who was flanked by his Captain Willy Sang.
Club Captain Francis Muthama praised all who have taken part to make the tournament successful and said the club was proud to be associated with the ‘Sotet” family to make the sport of golf at the club grow bigger and more enjoyable.
Elsewhere at the par 72 Kakamega Sports club on the same day, the club’s green keeper handicap 24 Ronald Omondi shed tears after finding himself in unfamiliar territory to bag the best effort prize with a disastrous day’s score of 91 nett during the November Ashanti mug tournament.
Nyanza golf club’s lady golfer handicap 37 Irene Wagumba was lucky emerging the overall winner but on a two-way count back score of 69 nett after tying with second placed handicap 14 Sanjiv Wallas and third placed handicap 19 Michael Chebii.
The tournament that attracted 140 golfers from the home club, Nyanza and Kisii sports clubs was organized by senior members of the club led by Ambassador Bruce Madete and graced by the Club Captain James Anzabwa, Club chairman Andrew Maleche and senior member Derek Bluechip Mwaura amongst other established golfers.
OTHER RESULTS;
NANYUKI SPORTS CLUB;
Maiyan;
Overall winner-Kevin Kabugu (17)-43points C/B,men winner-Winston Kirimi (28)-43points,runners up-Umraj Sehmi (9)-41points,Third-Ben Mathu (21)-38points,lady winner-Helen Kurutu (29)-43points,runners up-Purity Githui (19)-38points,staff win ner-Michael Mwirigi (11)-39points,gross winner-Charles Rob (0)-71gross,guest winner-Muriithi Thambu (1)-32points,cat B winner-Wachira Waruru (37)-34points,Lady winner-Sarah Gatumbo (40)-35points.
NYALI GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB;
October Mug/Strokeplay competition;
Winner-A.J.Molu (8)-80gross,division A winner-Dahir Awdeer (11)-71nett,runners up-A.J Molu-(8 )-72nett C/B,third-Jimmy King’ori-(11)-72nett,division B winner-Raajkamal Dhanjal-(18)-69nett,runners up-Krish Patel-(16)-72nett,third-Saqib Aboo-(15)-77nett C/B,division C winner-John Smith-(23)-67nett,runners up-Rishi Shah-(22)-70nett,third-Joseph Kaguru-(22)-73nett C/B,division D winner-Sal Davis-(32)-67nett,runners up-Lee Gristwood-(32)-72nett C/B,guest winner-Wachira Waruru-(35)-72nett.
VETLAB SPORTS CLUB;
Sweet Banana;
Overall winner-Grace Wanjohi-(22)-42points,gross winner-Junaid Manji (Jnr) (6)-76gross,men winner-Joseph Kirui (26)-40points,runner up-Zack Koech (9)-40points,third-Francis Kimathi (21)-39points,lady winner-Caroline Muguku (32)-38points,runner up-Nyawira Macharia (Jnr) (17)-38points,guest winner-Abel Kimondo (18)-38points,runner up-William Aluku (25)-38points,guest winner-Paul Nderitu (20)-38points,runner up-Japheth Njenga (22)-37points,third-Margaret Nyakangó (22)-36points,senior winner-Maurice Oyugi (25)-38points,junior winner-Prince Moreno (35)-39points,longest drive men winner-Simon Manambo,lady-Hellen Manyara,best effort-Rodney Nyandika (30)-18points.
ENDS;
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