Wayuwa Mululu follows her tee shot during the Crown Berger Grande Finalle at the Limuru Golf and Country Club last Sunday.

By PHILLIP MWEMBI

Vet labs Robinson Owiti and Wayuwa Mululu are the winners of the just concluded Crown Berger “Greensome” tournament held at the Limuru golf club over the weekend.

Robinson Owiti and Wayuwa Mululu playing off handicap 28 and 10 respectively carded 43 stable ford points to win the grand prize of three nights for two in South Africa courtesy ofpaint manufacture Crown Berger.

The pair started the front nine with two impressive pars on the first two holes and a birdie on the third hole. They followed it up with two more pars, dropped a shot on the 6^th and finished the first nine with three consecutive pars to card 25 points on the front nine.
On the back nine,the pair continued with their good run, getting a par on the 10th.Dropped a shot each on the 11th and 12th and
scratched the 14th hole, they recovered with two pars on the 15th and 16^thdropped a shot on the 17th and finished the last two holes with two pars to get 18 points.

“We were a great team, we complimented each other play, we had trouble in the second nine after we blanked on one hole but the first nine was very good for us” said an elated Robinson Owiti after picking the prize.

Ken Mambo and Joyce Karanja came in second playing 40 stableford points. The pair started the first nine by dropping a shot on the 1st hole, carded two pars on the 2^nd and 3^rd holes. They dropped a single shot each on the 4th and 5^th and recovered with a par on the 6th. They dropped a shot on the 7^th a par on the 8th and finished the first nine with a bogey for a score of 18 points.

At the front nine they dropped a shot on the 10th, birdied on the 11th and 12th and got consecutive pars on the last five holes to take home a prize of three nights for two in Mombasa.

The tournament involved pairs of players who after driving select one ball then play alternative until the ball is in the hole.

The tournament saw over 800 players from all over the country participate in 15 venues where as average of six pairs qualified from each qualifier for a grand final at Limuru Country Club last Saturday.

The venues covered in this competition included Railway, Royal, Nairobi, Karen, Sigona, Muthaiga, Windsor, Limuru, Vet Lab, Thika, Nyeri, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kiambu and Kericho. canada goose outlet canada goose outlet

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EYES ON THE BALL: Ayumba Ayodi of Nation Media follows his tee shot in a past Media Challenge event.

By KGG CORRESPONDENT

After a month break, media practitioners converge at the Golf Park tomorrow (Saturday) for the opening of the second Quarter of the airtel Media Golf Challenge. The event will see the top contenders’ line up to bag precious points in the 10-round competition.

According to Golf Park’s administrator Brenda Njeri, the journalists should expect fast greens owing to the current dry spell and” very clear fairways”.

” The course has been spruced up, and the roughs are non-existent” she said. However, she noted that the journalists need to tread carefully on the greens because they are really fast. “One false move may result to catastrophic results” said Brenda.

The opening of the second quarter this weekend will also see the return of  airtel members of staff including Tom Indimuli from corporate communications and airtel money team leader, Sieka Gatabaki.

The media personalities in contention for the top honours include, JB Mwangi from Standard group who wrote a new script  at the final of the first quarter in May by clinching the hotly contested title, Kipchillat Kimaru from the Presidential Press Service, Tony Timase and Boniface Mutakha both of Royal Media,Tony Kwalanda from Media Max and Milton Nyakundi of KBC.

In the second last leg of quarter one, NTV’s Idris Situma outclassed 40 compatriots to take an early lead in the best of 10 series.  In the premier event, Citizen TV’s Timase returned 111 gross points leading Business Daily’s Steve Mbogo who returned 114 and The East African’s Peter Mwaura who returned 115.

In the ladies category, People’s Betty Muindi shot a magnificent 114 points to beat perennial rivals Josephine Ngumba from the People and Tabitha Warui from the Sunday Express.

The growing popularity of the tournament has seen entries shoot up remarkably forcing organizers to move the tee off times to early morning. The finals of the competition will be staged at the same venue in December 2011.

The remaining rounds will be played on stable ford format with the winners amassing 10 points at every event. The points will be tallied for the final score in December. nike air max damen nike air max damen