Larry Ngala
25 September 2008
Nairobi — The 2008/2009 Safaricom Festival of Golf returns to Nairobi this weekend for the fifth leg at the Muthaiga Golf Club.
Exactly a week after the fourth leg held at the Leisure Golf Club in Diani, this weekend's tournament has attracted 190 players who will vie for a number of prizes in addition to qualifying for the national finals at the same venue on April 18 next year for the top 10 players.
This is the second visit at Muthaiga by the mobile phone service providers, having hosted the Safaricom Golf Challenge three weeks ago.
This weekend's tournament has attracted all the leading golfers at Muthaiga, both low and high handicappers, staff and guests of Safaricom.
Among the low handicap golfers who will be tackling the par 71 course will be former national team captain Kumar Dhall, immediate past captain Rajesh Bhabra, former chairmen Ashwin Gidoomal and Tim Onyango, Evans Vitisia, Selest Kilinda and veterans David Farrar and Kenya Golf Union vice-chairman, Samson Ndegwa.
Those in the high handicap bracket include Ketepa chief, Tim Chege, who last weekend walked away with the Old Mutual title after firing 41 points.
The format is stableford off full handicap which intends to favour the middle and high handicap golfers as the low handicap players will have to return under par scores if they hope to feature in the national finals next April.
East African Challenge
Safaricom is offering a fully loaded Compaq laptop, BlackBerry phones and Broadband Modems with internet speeds of between 3.2 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and 7.2 Mbps.
Meanwhile, the Kenya Data Networks-sponsored Golfer of the Year (GOTY) series moves to the nine-hole Kericho Golf Club course also this weekend for the 2008 Tea Field Trophy, the 13th event in this year's series.
Although the event is among the tournaments being used to select Kenya's national amateur team for the East African Challenge Cup at the Leisure Lodge from November 16, only a handful of the national team players will play.
Leading the challenge will be the Kenya team captain, Francis Kimani, of Limuru whose main challengers will be newly-crowned Karen Challenge champion Stefan Andersen from Muthaiga, Thika's Sullivan Muthugia, Boniface Simwa and Nyanza's Hardeep Rajput.
In Machakos, over 100 will be battling it out for the KBC title.
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