Jim Herman plays his shot from the fifth tee during the second round of the FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind on August 06, 2021 in Memphis, Tennessee.

By DANIELLA APIYO AND AMANDA DAMARIS

SuperSport viewers on DStv can look forward to seeing all the action from the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina from Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 August 2021.

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The Wyndham Championship is the sixth oldest event on the PGA Tour, dating back to 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open. This year will see the 82nd edition of the tournament, with American Jim Herman returning as the defending champion after he finished one stroke clear of compatriot Billy Horschel in 2020.

“I love defending and it was great defending at Barbasol and it just all goes with it,” Herman said. “You know all eyes are on you to start the week and I know I’ll look forward to it again.”

The Bermuda rough at the Sedgefield Country Club is set to pose a major challenge, but Herman says he is in favour of penalising errant shots off the tee.

“You get a bad Bermuda lie or just a regular rough lie around the green you just kind of have to gauge how it’s coming out,” he explained. “We need golf courses to have rough, and have it be a penalty and putting a premium on driving the ball in the fairway and hitting quality iron shots into the greens.”

The defending champion added, “I just know I’m a pretty good driver of the golf ball and length isn’t too much of an issue so I go around with a 3-wood quite a bit. You know it just sets up well off the tee for me and you know, I just have a good positive vibes when I show up here.”

The 2021 Wyndham Championship’s field will also feature other former champions such as Si Woo Kim, J.T Poston, Ryan Moore, Camilo Villegas, K.J. Choi, Brandt Snedeker and Webb Simpson, as well as Louis Oosthuizen, two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, major winners Jason Day, Justin Rose, Francesco Molinari and Gary Woodland.

Simpson is particularly looking forward to returning to the Wyndham Championship:”I love the golf course, and I’ve always loved the golf course because we don’t play many courses like Sedgefield (a Donald Ross design) that are short and have fast greens… I feel really comfortable out there and even when I come in and I haven’t been playing great, I feel like I can always compete there.”

The Ross Course at Sedgefield Country Club is a 7,127 yard par 70 course. The purse for the Wyndham Championship is $6.4million.

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PGA Tour Wyndham Championship broadcast details

All times CAT

Thursday 12 August

21:00: Day 1 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Friday 13 August

21:00: Day 2 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Saturday 14 August

19:00: Day 3 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Sunday 15 August

19:00: Day 4 – LIVE on SuperSport Golf

Members of Muthaiga Golf Club celebrate with the Tannahill Shield after winning the competition at Royal Club over the weekend.

By DANIELLA APIYO AND AMANDA DAMARIS

Giants Muthaiga Golf Club team Sunday beat Western Kenya by a big margin of nine points to reclaim the Tannahill Shield they lost to hosts Royal Nairobi four years ago.

During the final round of the Jamii Telcom sponsored tournament, the Muthaiga side which included a number a number of juniors, beat Railway 5-3, then made a clean sweep against Vet Lab (8-0) for 13 points, which gave them a total aggregate of 48 points.

The last time Muthaiga won the Tannahill Shield, which was marking its 97th anniversary, was 2017.

“We had a lot of support from the management at Muthaiga, plus we had a young team where our juniors were fired up and ready for this year’s tournament particularly after winning the Nairobi District Foursomes at the beginning of the year,” said club captain Dr. Khushil Nathwani, who also thanked the team captain Brian Njoroge and manager Ganeev Giddie for their coordination of the team.

During their Railway match, Muthaiga’s team of Bhavnish Chandaria and Taimur Malik beat Railway’s John Lejirmah, the Kenya Amateur Match Play champion, and his partner James Kamenchu 2-up.

Daniel Kiragu and Bo Ciera lost to Fidelis Kimanzi and Edwin Murungi 3-2, but Muthaiga later picked up two more points via Neer Chandaria and John Gitonga, who beat David Mbatia and Paul Orawo 6-5.

Njoroge Kibugu and Kushil Nathwani, who were un beaten in the tournament, halved with Edward Manywanda Kash Padam.

The 2021 Tannahill Shield arrives at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club in a chopper at the weekend.

In the Muthaiga and Vet Lab match, Bhavnish Chandaria and Taimur Malik beat Amit Modi and junior player Steve Orinda 2-up.

Daniel Kiragu and Bo Siera won 2-1 against Leo Zurovac and Isaac Makokha, while Njoroge Kibugu and Kushil Nathwani won 1-up against Krish Baiju and Watson Burugu. Finally, the last pair of Neer Chandaria and John Gitonga beat Jack Mwangi and Steve D’s Souza 6-4.

On the other hand, Western halved with Royal and beat Mombasa 5-3 for nine points to finish second overall with 39 points, while Limuru was third on 34 after beating Karen 6-2 and halved with Sigona.

Vet Lab, whose team was made up of juniors Leo Zurovac (17), Krish Baiju (15) and Steve Orinda, came fourth overall with 32 points.

Hosts Royal, who won the Shield in 2018 and 2019, tied with Railway on 31 points, while Mombasa finished seventh on 28 points, one better than Sigona and Karen was last on 18 points.

Speaking during the prize giving ceremony, Jamii Telcom chairman Joshua Chepkwony, whose company has supported the event for the past five years, urged the management of Royal to consider reviving the junior event, which use to take place before the main event.

“The survival of this game will depend on a strong junior programmes and this is one of the reasons why we accepted sponsoring it because we saw a number of teams embracing juniors. You can introduce a 55 years and over one day curtain raiser, but the emphasis should be on juniors,” said Chepkwony.

Besides Jamii Telcom and Kenyatta National Hospital, other sponsors were Development Bank, EABL, CPF, Instabet, Development Bank, EABL, Lucozade, AAR Healthcare, NCA, Crown Paints, Monster Energy, Keringet, Merican Limited, and Tysons limited.