Royal Golf Club captain Stanley Kirui recieves Sh1.5 Million Cheque from Jamii Telcom Kenya Ebby Samoei at Launch of Tannahill Shield 2022.

By DANIELLA APIYO AND AMANDA DAMARIS

The 97th edition of the annual Tannahill Golf Tournament is set to take place from the 15th to 17th of April 2022 at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club.

The tournament is regarded as one of the biggest amateur golf events in Sub Saharan Africa and will bring together the best amateur players from 9 golf clubs from Nairobi, Mombasa, and Western provinces to compete for coveted Tannahill Shield.

“Unlike other golf events, the Tannahill Golf Tournament is played by teams, instead of individuals of amateur golfers from various clubs who are keen to showcase their golfing skills and team spirit whilst enjoying the company of other competing golfers,” says Royal Nairobi’s golf captain Stanley Kirui. “We have been in contact with all participating teams, and they are all excited and training hard so that they can win this coveted trophy,’’ added the captain.

The participating clubs this year are Royal Nairobi Golf Club, Mombasa Golf Club, Muthaiga Golf Club, Western Kenya, Limuru Country Club, Vet Lab Sports Club, Kenya Railways Golf Club, Sigona Golf Club and Karen Country Club.

Activities preceding the main tournament on Easter Sunday, April 17th will be the Junior Easter Tournament – whose participants will be juniors invited from all clubs in Kenya to compete for this trophy. Seven teams have confirmed participation for the junior tournament. For the first time, seniors will make a debut on the Good Friday morning of 15th April 2022 for the inaugural Tannahill Seniors Trophy. The senior’s tournament is open to golfers over 55 years of age.

The Tannahill tournament is the brainchild of Major Arthur Tannahill and was inaugurated in 1924 as an annual event when the general committee of the then Nairobi Golf Club invited teams representing Mombasa, Nyeri, Kiambu, Nakuru and Muthaiga to participate in the tournament. Every club plays one match against each of the other clubs, eight players a side and the format was four-ball-better-ball match play.

It is the only three-way competitive foursomes match play tournament in the world. The Foursomes is a competition format in which a team is comprised of two players, and those two golfers alternate hitting the same ball sometime called “alternate shot” format.

The tournament this year is sponsored by Jamii Telecommunications and supported by, Chipper Cash, Merican Solutions, Rentco Group, First Assurance, CPF, Crown Paints and Safaricom.

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland on the eighteenth hole during the continuation of the weather delayed first round of THE PLAYERS Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA, on 12 March 2022. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

By KGG TEAM

SuperSport viewers on DStv can look forward to seeing all the action from the PGA Tour’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at the Austin Country Club in Texas from Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 March 2022.

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One of the four annual events contested by match play in the World Golf Championships (WGC), the Dell Technologies tournament was established in 1999 and has been played in Austin since 2016.

The reigning champion is American Billy Horschel, who defeated compatriot Scottie Scheffler 2 and 1 in the final, having come through group featuring Max Homa, TJ Poston and Collin Morikawa, before ousting Kevin Streelman, Tommy Fleetwood and Victor Perez in the last 16, quarterfinal and semifinal respectively.

Horschel is set to return to the Austin Country Club to defend his title, while other former champions such as Kevin Kisner, Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson headline the star-studded field, which will also include Jon Rahm and Morikawa.

“Having the defending champion of any professional golf tournament always adds another layer of excitement and we are thrilled Horschel will return to the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play,” said Executive Director Jordan Uppleger.

“Billy put on a thrilling performance in 2021 that allowed everyone watching to experience an in-the-moment rivalry and healthy competition as we watched him outlast University of Texas graduate Scottie Scheffler. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Billy back alongside 63 of the other top-ranked players in the world.”

The long-awaited return of normal capacity at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is in part due to its annual status of hosting one of the strongest fields of the PGA Tour season. In 2021, two-time FedExCup winner Rory McIlroy, 2019 PGA Tour Player of the Year Brooks Koepka, 2017 FedExCup champion Justin Thomas and 2015 FedExCup champion Jordan Spieth each competed in the event.

Only the top 64 players in the rankings are invited to play in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, a strict qualification guideline that ensures the field in Austin annually consists of the very best players from around the world from all Tours.

The Austin Country Club has a 7,108-yard par 72 course. The purse for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is $12million.

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WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play broadcast details

All times CAT

Wednesday 23 March

20:00: Day 1 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Thursday 24 March

20:00: Day 2 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Friday 25 March

20:00: Day 3 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Saturday 26 March

16:00: Day 4 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Sunday 27 March

16:00: Day 5 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf