Indiza leads Kenyan challenge to this year’s Uganda Open
What you need to know:
- Leading the Kenyan challenge will be the long hitting Dismas Indiza, a past winner who has been in great form lately though did not show his best form during the Rapid Golf Tour Challenge.
Most of Kenya’s professional golfers are in Kampala for this year’s Tusker Malt Uganda Open Golf Championship whose first round is set for this morning at the Uganda Golf Club course-Kitante.
Fresh from the first leg of the inaugural Rapid Golf Tour at Muthaiga Golf Club last week where a team of the country’s leading pros posted a total of 48 points to win the Rapid Golf Challenge trophy, the Kenyan pros will be chasing the top prize of Sh750,000.
Leading the Kenyan challenge will be the long hitting Dismas Indiza, a past winner who has been in great form lately though did not show his best form during the Rapid Golf Tour Challenge at Muthaiga.“The course is playing well though one has to be stay on the fairways to score well. They have left the rough to grow because of the on going rains,” said Indiza after his Pro-Am round yesterday.
He finished fourth during last year’s event won by local pro Vincent Byamukama who won ahead of Kenya’s Richard Ainley who is also in Kampala to try his lack once again.
Other Kenyan pros in Kampala for the event is national team coach Anil Shah who remained in Uganda after the weekend’s East Africa Challenge Cup where Kenya surrendered the cup to hosts Uganda, after losing by one point at Entebbe Golf Club. A total of 19 Kenyan pros are participating in the championship being sponsored by Tusker Malt.
They include Nyanza’s David Odhiambo, Royal Nairobi’s David Wakhu and Eric Ooko, Nakuru’s James Lorum and Thika Sports Club’s Simon Ngige. Besides defending champion Byamukama, hosts Uganda will have such players like Deo Akope and Amos Kamya.
