The four-ball of Philip Kibet, Fostine Maithya, Mercy Nderitu and Daniel Salaton returned a combined score of 111 points to emerge as overall winners of the 17th leg of the KCB East Africa Golf Tour played at the 9-hole Machakos Golf Course yesterday.
They managed to beat the team of Cornelius Ndumai, Crispus Katiku, Samson Matilu who returned 110 points to be named the second best team of the day at the tournament that was headlined by 131 golfers.
Speaking after guiding her team to victory, Mercy Nderitu said: “We feel very elated and pleasantly surprised but the circumstances around today’s game and the motivation we had as a team contributed to the final result. Before we got on the course, one of our members in our team formed a whatsapp group to show us that this was serious. Fine we wanted to enjoy ourselves but we also wanted to make the difference for ourselves and the sponsor.”
Daniel Salaton, who plays off handicap 25 was impressive on the course, the experienced golfer returned 41 points to bag the overall winner award beating handicap 17 SK Theuri who clinched the man winner award with 39 stableford points.
Felistus Mativo, handicap 34, returned 36 points to scoop the lady winner award beating Mercy Nderitu on countback. Handicap 33 Liz Wanjiru claimed the guest winner award after an excellent 40 stableford points.