Kenyan professional golfers will be competing at Diani Beach Masters Golf Tournament for the second year running that will take place on par 72 Leisure Lodge Golf and Beach Resort in Diani.
The tournament, which attracted amateur golfers only, in the Prime bank sponsored event that will kick off on October 5th to 7th.
This is one of the many “Road to Karen’’ events the pros are expected to play between now and March 2019. Like last year, the pros will play for a one million shillings purse, courtesy of Prime Bank, who on Wednesday handed over the sponsorship cheque of one million shillings to the Professional Golfers of Kenya (PGK) chairman Charan Thethy.
Speaking during the cheque hand-over ceremony at Prime Bank, Thethy thanked the bank for its continued support of the pros and the game of golf as a whole in the country, saying the sponsorship had come at the right time when the pros are preparing to qualify for next year’s Kenya Open.
“We are grateful to Prime Bank as well as Leisure Lodge for their generosity and commitment towards golf in Kenya both professional and amateur. This sponsorship will go a long way to support the local pros in their hunt for slots in the Kenya Open, whose 2019 edition will be part of the European Tour series,” said Thethy, after receiving the cheque from Prime Bank’s Director of Business Development Vijay Kantaria.
He said so far 36 professionals and 80 amateurs had by Wednesday listed their names in the event, which will be 54-holes for pros and 36 holes for amateurs.
The pros will have a cut after the end of the second round, where the top 20 pros and ties will battle it out for the cash prizes.
Those listed so far also include two Tanzanians Jimmy Mollel and the long-hitting Nuru Mollel of Dar es Salaam and Arusha Gymkhana Clubs as well as Zimbabwe’s Mohammed Mandhu and Kayyam Mandhu.
The locals include the winner of the Safari Tour first leg held at Nyali David Wakhu and long hitting Dismas Indiza.
Source: Daily Nation