KGU to host University Golf Day
Kenya Golf Union chairman Njani Ndiritu attends a press conference at Muthaiga Golf Club on February 17, 2023 after launching the University Golf Tournament.
What you need to know:
- The objective is to get the universities to adopt golf as a sport, establish university golf clubs and develop university golf leagues where frequent competitions will be held.
The Kenya Golf Union (KGU) will on Sunday host the inaugural University Golf Day at Vet Lab Sports Club.
The event has been organised to have an engagement with the university and college students who are the key promise to the transformation of the game of golf in the country.
The objective is to get the universities to adopt golf as a sport, establish university golf clubs and develop university golf leagues where frequent competitions will be held.
So far a total of 150 students from 17 universities and colleges have registered, 60 of whom will play in the Sunday tournament where individual prizes will be awarded and the best performing university recognised.
Students who have expressed interest in being part of a University Golf Club and have not started playing golf will be taken through introductory lessons to the game.
The Universities and colleagues which have taken keen interest in the programme include Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Daystar University, Egerton, KCA University, Kenyatta University, Laikipia University, Mt Kenya University, Multimedia University, Riara, Strathmore, Technical University, USIU and University of Nairobi.
The golf clinic shall consist of driving, chipping and putting demonstrations in addition to the introduction to the rules and requirements of golf.
The students will also get a chance to go round the course and watch their peers playing. KGU chairman Njani Ndiritu said: “Some of the students have never had a chance to access a golf course and we believe this will be an amazing first experience for them."
“We have had quite a number of engagements on the junior and senior fronts and somehow the universities have been left out. Golf is a sport that is played by members of the society of different age groups and should be developed at every level of growth. We have also invited the lecturers so that the students can find support from the university administration," Ndiritu said at Muthaiga Golf Club on Friday during the launch of the tournament.
