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Makori and Awuor are NCBA Series champions at Royal Nairobi

The pair of George Makori and Ashley Awuor merged top at the hotly contested Division One category at the latest leg of the NCBA Golf Series yesterday at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club to qualify for the series Grand Finale set for November 29th.

Playing off handicap 10, Makori went toe to toe with Sunil Parmar in the men’s division one category, a close encounter that saw both golfers card 39 points. Makori won on countback as Parmar settled for the second place.

In the ladies’ category, handicap 5 Awuor returned an excellent score of 38 ahead of Diana Mbuba (Handicap 7) who posted 36 points.

Nicholas Malaki (Handicap 18) and Christine Mathenge (Handicap 24) were victorious in Division Two after carding 42 and 44 points respectively while Tesha Magira was the overall Division Three winner with a score of 44 off handicap 30.

Shawn Malesi won the junior category prize after returning 35 points off handicap 12, with Don Tororei and Rahab Thuo winning the guest and staff categories.

Makori, Awuor, Malaki, Mathenge, Magira, and Malesi join over 100 other golfers who have already secured their slots for the grand finale, including three from Rwanda.

Constantine Barasa stole the show when she sunk a hole-in-one at the 167-yard par 3 hole number 17.

The series’ action now heads to Entebbe Club next weekend for Uganda’s last qualifying round

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