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TANZANIA TO REWARD TOP GOLFERS IN EAST AFRICA December 21, 2005
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) Tanzania Golf Union vice-chairman Dioniz Malinzi has pledged financial support to top golfers in East African who turn professional. Malinzi said Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania had produced talented players capable of earning a lot of money through golf as professionals.
Speaking at Nyali Golf and Country Club during the Nyali Open golf championship, Malinzi said he was impressed by the high standard of golf displayed by leading golfers from the region at Nyali Open and the other events held recently in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
National team players from the three countries took part in the All Africa Challenge and Uganda Open in Kampala, the East African Challenge in Kigali, Rwanda, and the Uhuru Cup in Dar es Salaam two weeks ago.
"You have the talent that can take you anywhere in the world but it is up to you to translate that talent into a more useful gains," said Malinzi, who has supported a number of events in Tanzania in addition to sponsoring some of the top players from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda through his company, Cargostars Limited. He said he was ready to pay membership fee for any top amateur from the three countries who will consider joining the paid ranks.
"I am offering you an opportunity to earn a living through this game, and that is my challenge to you-take it or leave it," he said.
Malinzi, who kitted the Tanzanian players as well as some from Kenya and Uganda, thanked the organisers of the Nyali Open for extending an invitation to players from the neighbouring countries. He said this would contribute greatly to the development of golf in East Africa.
During the Nyali Open, which was the grand finale in the Kenya Golf Union (KGU) Golfer Of The Year (GOTY) series, Leisure Lodge's Samuel Kahindi beat Uganda's Deo Akope by two shots to clinch the title. Kahindi, a caddie at Leisure Golf Club at the Leisure Lodge Beach Resort, posted a three rounds total of 217 gross beating a field of 97 players to claim his first GOTY title.
Meanwhile, despite finishing in third place with a score of gross 229 for six points, Kenya Amateur Matchplay Champion Brian Njorogeof Vet Lab Sports Club went on to clinch the 2005 GOTY title with a total of 98.5 points.
Nakuru's James Lorum came second with 75 points after finishing fourth at Nyali with 225 gross, which earned him nine points.
National team captain Kumar Dhall, who did not travel to Mombasa for the Nyali Open, took the third overall prize in the 18-events GOTY series with 68 points.
By virtue of his amateur and GOTY titles, Njoroge has also qualified to lead Kenya's five-man amateur team to the 2006 Tusker Kenya Open at Karen Country Club. Dhall qualified by virtue of being the Kenya Amateur Strokeplay champion.
The two will be joined by Lorum, Nyanza's David Odhiambo and Nick Rokoine, whose third place in the Nyali Open on 220 gross for 10.5 points moved him from eight to fourth place in the GOTY series.
Tanzania Golf Union vice-chairman Dioniz Malinzi has pledged financial support to top golfers in East African who turn professional.
Malinzi said Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania had produced talented players capable of earning a lot of money through golf as professionals.
Speaking at Nyali Golf and Country Club During the Nyali Open golf championship, Malinzi said he was impressed by the high standard of golf displayed by leading golfers from the region at Nyali Open and the other events held recently in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
National team players from the three countries took part in the All Africa Challenge and Uganda Open in Kampala, the East African Challenge in Kigali, Rwanda, and the Uhuru Cup in Dar es Salaam two weeks ago.
"You have the talent that can take you anywhere in the world but it is up to you to translate that talent into a more useful gains," said Malinzi, who has supported a number of events in Tanzania in addition to sponsoring some of the top players from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda through his company, Cargostars Limited.
He said he was ready to pay membership fee for any top amateur from the three countries who will consider joining the paid ranks.
"I am offering you an opportunity to earn a living through this game, and that is my challenge to you-take it or leave it," he said.
Malinzi, who kitted the Tanzanian players as well as some from Kenya and Uganda, thanked the organisers of the Nyali Open for extending an invitation to players from the neighbouring countries. He said this would contribute greatly to the development of golf in East Africa.
During the Nyali Open, which was the grand finale in the Kenya Golf Union (KGU) Golfer Of The Year (GOTY) series, Leisure Lodge's Samuel Kahindi beat Uganda's Deo Akope by two shots to clinch the title.
Kahindi, a caddie at Leisure Golf Club at the Leisure Lodge Beach Resort, posted a three rounds total of 217 gross beating a field of 97 players to claim his first GOTY title.
Meanwhile, despite finishing in third place with a score of gross 229 for six points, Kenya Amateur Matchplay Champion Brian Njoroge of Vet Lab Sports Club went on to clinch the 2005 GOTY title with a total of 98.5 points.
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Nakuru's James Lorum came second with 75 points after finishing fourth at Nyali with 225 gross which earned him nine points.
National team captain Kumar Dhall, who did not travel to Mombasa for the Nyali Open, took the third overall prize in the 18-events GOTY series with 68 points.
By virtue of his amateur and GOTY titles, Njoroge has also qualified to lead Kenya's five-man amateur team to the 2006 Tusker Kenya Open at Karen Country Club. Dhall qualified by virtue of being the Kenya Amateur Strokeplay champion.
The two will be joined by Lorum, Nyanza's David Odhiambo and Nick Rokoine, whose third place in the Nyali Open on 220 gross for 10.5 points moved him from eight to fourth place in the GOTY series.