Junior golf coach Charles Farrar (right) poses with the national team members from left Daniel Nduva, Tahir Mohammed, Adel Balala and Mathew Wahome (standing), during the tournament in Zambia.

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RENOWNED golf coach Charles Farrar has refuted claims that poor selection of the national junior team resulted to the team’s poor performance at this year’s Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Zambia recently.

Farrar was reacting to Elisha Kasuku’s opinion that a qualifying event should have been used to select the best juniors in the country to do the job at the global level.

Kenya finished sixth in the competition, behind South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Re-Union Islands and Uganda.

“We just had a bad day in office during the tournament and for the team to finish sixth it doesn’t mean that we had bad selection of the squad. I don’t believe in a qualifying tournament to pick the national team, because a good example is when the US is picking it’s team to the Ryder Cup, would they leave Tiger Woods out of their team just because he played bad golf in a qualifying event?” posed Farrar was the junior team coach to the continental event.

He added: “Another example is reigning golfer of the year John Karichu who was omitted in the senior national team to the Africa Zone VI Championships because he did not play well in the qualifying tournament, but he came to prove that he was still the best amateur in the the country by winning the Winston Churchill tournament at Thika Club last weekend.”

Farrar exuded confidence on the youngsters and tipped them to perform better in future international tournaments after the Zambia experience.

The junior team to the continental competition comprised of Daniel Nduva, Mathew Wahoma, Adel Balala and Tahir Mohammed, all from Nyali Golf and Country Club. cheap air max 90 mens cheap air max 90 mens

Elisha Kasuku gestures during the interview today.

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Veteran professional golfer Elisha Kasuku has called on Junior Golf Foundation (JGF) to change their mode of selecting the national junior team, to give room to brilliant juniors to represent the country.

Kasuku’s remarks come in the back drop of terrible performance by the Kenyan junior team at the Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Zambia recently.

All members of the team, Daniel Nduva, Mathew Wahoma, Adel Balala and Tahir Mohammed, come from Nyali Golf and Country Club and they finished sixth out 12 participating countries at the continental event.

“It sad to lose even to Uganda who don’t have a proper junior program compared to Kenya. With two slots up for grabs to feature at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan for the first time, this was the best chance for the Kenyan juniors to qualify for the global show case and they wasted the golden chance by finishing sixth,” said Kasuku who has mentored many top golfers in the country.

He added: “It is not realistic to have a specific junior team with the same players year in, year out. Some one may be sick or even have a dip in form, so having a qualifying tournament that brings all juniors from all parts of the country to pick the national team from the best of the best is the only way that would guarantee a serious national team that can compete against the best out there.”

Royal, Muthaiga, Eldoret and Great Rift Club have produced a number of quality junior players who feel if given a chance they could represent the country. That was proved during the Easter tournament where juniors from Royal Nairobi Golf Club overwhelmed their Nyali opponents. cheap nike air max 90 online cheap nike air max 90 online