Home player, John Kitaka, shot an impressive round of 47 points to emerge the overall winner of the Machakos Golf Club leg of the Bayer East Africa golf series.
Playing off handicap 19, John’s score was six points better than that of his nearest challenger, Patrick Marang’u whose efforts saw him claim the top spot in the men’s category with 41 points.
Clinching the runner-up spot in the category was Joe Mboya, playing off handicap 17, who shot a round of 39 points. Completing the podium places in the category was Victor Mutwii, playing off handicap 11, with 38 points on the scorecard.
Amongst the lady golfers, Angelina Mutuku, playing off handicap 32, emerged the winner with 37 points; one ahead of her nearest challenger, Mwongeli Nzioka – playing off handicap 10, who carded a round of 36 points. Taking third spot in the lady’s category was Florence Riungu, who shot a round of 35 points and playing off handicap 24.
Amongst the guests, Isaac Kamau from Vetlab Sports Club, playing off handicap 22, emerged the top guest at the event after carding a round of 39 points; two better than Timothy Rintari, playing off handicap 26, who managed 37 points to clinch runner-up spot in the category.
In the subsidiaries, Mathew Mutambu, playing off handicap 53, was the men’s winner with 41 points, whilst Purity Kioko was crowned the lady winner with 40 points. John Kinyua and Anthony Mwirigi – playing off handicaps 32 and 31 – emerged first and second nine winners with 21 and 22 points respectively.
In the longest drive challenge, Terra Saidimu and Nancy Kariuki, emerged victors in the men’s and ladies’ categories respectively; whilst Vincent Musalia won the nearest-to-the-pin award at the event.
A field of 132 golfers took part in the tournament. The event was Bayer’s second golf tournament this year, with the first having taken place at the Nakuru Golf Club on the 8th of March.
The series is set to feature at least 8 events having hosted 10 events last year.
Speaking after the Machakos event, Isabellah Magale, Marketing and Communication Specialist, at Bayer East Africa Limited said:
“Today we had 130 players on the course and the reason why we chose Machakos as a destination for our golf tournament is because Machakos is the land of smallholder farmers, and we wanted to we interact with them as well as link up with our distributor who sell our seeds and crop protection solutions to the farmers.
“We started off at the Nakuru Golf Club before coming to Machakos for the second event. We plan to have six more events across the country as part of our strategic engagements and look forward to engaging events with our stakeholders.”
The series moves to the Nandi Bears club in June.
