FAVOURITE: Mumias' pro Dismas Indiza prepapres to tee off in a past KCB Tour event. He is among the favourites in the 5th leg of the 2011 Tour to be held in Kigali.

By KGG CORRESPONDENT

Rwanda’s number one golf course, Par 72 Kigali Golf Club will this week between May 25 to 28 host the fifth round of the KCB East African Golf Tour.
The four-rounds event dubbed, KCB Bank Rwanda Open has attracted a record field of 35 professional players from the East African region, who are expected to battle it out for the top prizes.
Kenya will be represented by a strong contingent of 24 professional golfers. Leading the pack will be long-hitter Dismas Indiza who won recently the KCB Bank Tanzania Open after edging out two promising golfers, Muthaiga’s Greg Snow and Thika’s Simon Ngige at Arusha Gymkhana.
First round (Thika) and third round winner (Nyanza) of the KCB tour, Simon Ngige who emerged the winner last year in Kigali Golf Club is expected to repeat the same feat. He will be joined by Greg Snow who won the second round of the tour at Muthaiga Golf Club.
Other outstanding golfers lined up for the stiff challenge include; left-handed Richard Ainley, Ali Kimani, Brian Njoroge, Nicholas Rokoine among others.
Tanzania will be represented by a contingent of over 6 players namely; Bryceson Nyenza, Farayi Chitengwa, Yasin Salehe, Stanley Sanga, Salum Ndilunga and Juma Mbwana.
In addition, two Rwanda professional golfers Emmanuel Ruterana and Jean Baptiste are ready to stage a tough challenge for the regional elite golfers converging at Kigali.
Deo Akope will sorely represent Uganda in the challenge hoping to take a share of the KShs 1 million prize fund on offer from KCB Bank.
The sixth round of the KCB East African Golf Tour will be held at Nakuru Golf Club between June 8-11 where a total of Kshs 500,000 prize fund will be on offer.
This year KCB has put together a sponsorship package of Sh8.7m for the eight events whose grand finale worth Sh3m will take place at Nyali Golf and Country Club Mombasa from August 10. canada goose schweiz canada goose schweiz

FOCUSED: Nation Media House's Ayumba Ayodi follows his swing during the third leg of the Airtel Media Challenge at the nine-hole Golf Park course

By ENOCK NGOME

A late birdie on the 12^th and three subsequent pars on the 8^th and 16^th and 18^th catapulted JB Mwangi to the his maiden win of the Airtel media golf challenge held at the Golf park on Saturday.

JB, who bogeyed the first hole and dropped a shot in the second, was on form to collect points on each hole thereafter culminating with a total of 39 stableford points three points ahead of second placed Tony Kwalanda from K24.

JB attributed his win to practice and the right frame of mind. “It was great to win, I am very proud today as it confirms that practice makes it perfect, the greens were tricky but all I can say is that I very happy with my performance” he said.

Long hitting Kwalanda fired 17 points on the first nine and 19 on the second nine, having dropped shots on the 5^th and 14^th, owing to what he said was “strong gusts of wind from the left”.

The ladies prize went to Josphine Ngumba from the people daily.

Others who received top honours include Mwaura Kimani from the East African, with 34 points, Kipchillat Kimaru from the presidential press services. The staff prize went to Airtel’s Tom Indimuli while Lee Mwandiki and Robert Ndwiga received prizes for the longest drive and nearest to the pin respectively.

Airtel also announced that it would soon be re-launching its money transfer service Zap to Airtel money according Sieka Gatabaki, the head of Airtel’s head of money transfer services. Without divulging a lot of details, he hinted that the new service is set to revolutionalize money transfer services in the country.

Over 30 journalists were battling it out for the prestigious red jacket to be awarded to the top performer in December, in a points based format where the winner bags 10 precious points in each tournament.

Tournament organizers Thinktank marketing said the next tournament will be held at the end of June when the standings of the players will also be announced

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