SWING: Muthaiga’s Sigh Khromov tees off during the Seacom golf event recently. A total of 190 players have line-up for the Greenline Golf event at Windsor Golf Club.

By KGG REPORTER

The Nairobi Greenline Project will hold a golf tournament on Friday (June 10^th) at the Windsor Golf and Country Club to mark the World Environment Day and to raise funds towards its 300,000 tree planting campaign to protect the Nairobi National Park.

This 18 hole Stableford competition has attracted over 20 corporate sponsors among them PG Bison Kenya Limited.  The Company has sponsored the 17^th hole for 40,000 shillings.  Nishit and Hitesh Mediratta, the Directors, will play in the tournament together with their clients Eric Govani and Zubin Parikh.

A total of 190 competitors have registered in this Greenline charity golf event.  Other players on the list are Anthony Percival, the Managing Director of Toyota, Pradeep Paurana, the Chairman of  Athi River Mining, General Sassia of the Armed Forces of Kenya and Wanja Kimani, the Coordinator of the Greenline Project.

The competition will start at 8.00 a.m. on Friday and the prize giving is scheduled for 7.00 p.m.  There will also be a briefing on the progress of the Greeline project and celebrations to mark the World Environment Day.

In 2010, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) started the Nairobi Greenline Project in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to grow 300,000 trees from the Cheetah Gate in Athi River to the Carnivore Restaurant.

The aim of this campaign is to protect the Nairobi National Park from pollution, encroachment and human and wildlife conflict.  Since the launch, the sponsors have raised 23 millions shillings. michael kors tasche sale michael kors tasche sale

EYEING GREATNESS: Stefan Andersen makes a chip in a past event.

By KGG CORRESPONDENT

Nairobi, 8 June 2011

South Africa-based Kenyan internationa, Stefan Engell Andersen left the country yesterday for UK to play in the 116^th Amateur golf championships, the most prestigious event on the R&A amateur calender.

Currently ranked 764 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, governed by the Royal and Ancient of Scotland, Andersen will play the first part of the Championships, a 36 hole Strokeplay, at Hillside golf club and Hesketh golf club respectively on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 June 2011, in Meryside, close to both Liverpool and Manchester.

Andersen, who played in the World Amateur team championships in Argentina last year was also a member of the Junior World Team championships in Japan in 2008, and played in the Junior Orange Bowl in Florida the same year. He is playing in a championships in the the United Kingdom for the first time.

The last Kenyan to play in this event was back in 1972, when David Farrar reached the third round at Royal St Georges, losing to Dick Siderowf, the four times US Walker cup captain.

The field is limited to 288 players in the Strokeplay, after which the 64 lowest scored over the 36 holes and ties for 64thplace will compete in the match play stage of the Championships, to commence on Wednesday 15 June at Hillside and will be seeded. Over 31 countries will be represented, Kenya and South Africa being the only ones from Africa.

Entry to the Amateur championships is open to any golfer in the world, with preference given to the player’s current position in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, handicap and exemption in the starting field given to winners of various strokeplay events around the world, regional amateur champions and Walker team players to name a few.

The winner of the 116^th Amateur championship gets automatic entry to The Open, the US Open and the US Amateur championships.

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