By AMANDA DAMARIS

Kenya Golf Union (KGU) has named a four-member national team that will participate in this year’s Region 5 (formerly Zone VI Championships) slated for Nkana Golf Club in Kitwe, Zambia on April 10-14.

In the team are Kenya Railways Golf Club duo of Alfred Nandwa and Samuel Njoroge and Limuru Country Club’s John Karichu and Edwin Mundanyi of Vet Lab Sports Club..

The team will be accompanied by KGU Chairman Muchau Githiaka, Vice Chairman-cum-Tournament Director Mr. Richard Wanjalla and KGU Head Coach John Patrick van Liefland

According to KGU, The team was selected based on the current Kenya Amateur Golf Championship (KAGC) ranking.

Head coach Liefland said the players are in high spirits and has exuded confidence of Kenya putting up a great show in one of the most prestigious tournament in Africa.

Kenya joins twelve other countries from Africa that will be battling out for the coveted trophy in the five-day event.

Other countries that will be participating include Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Uganda.

In the meantime, there were changes that were a raft of changes introduced in the tournament last year on the format of play with the event being exclusively for the Region 5 countries.

However, Kenya, Mauritius and Uganda from non-region 5 have been invited and will field a team of four players each.

Each member of Region 5 is eligible to front two teams of four-balls while Mauritius, Uganda and Kenya will field only one team each.

Kenya has only won the event once when it was held in Botswana capital Gaborone in 2010. cheap air max 95 cheap air max 95

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