Wakhu leads Team Kenya to ProAm win

Wakhu leads Team Kenya to ProAM win. [Photo: Courtesy]

Kenya’s leading pro-golfer, also the Golf Park Pro David Wakhu played a score of 4-under par to lead his team to victory with a combined score of 86 points to win the ProAm event of the first leg of the 2019/2020 Safari Tour event played at the Nyali Golf and Country Club.

The Kitale-born Wakhu played in the company of amateur golfers Mohammed Essa, John Middleton and Hilda Mugure to win the tournament in the leafy golf course that overlooks the salty Indian Ocean in the Coastal City of Mombasa.

Speaking upon winning the event, Wakhu said that conditions on the course were tough that made playing tough.

The Golf Park Pro said “The wind was blowing hard for most of the day, making it difficult to judge distances with the wind either behind or against the flight of the ball.

The greens were receptive, and I trust they will remain so through the next few days.”

The team of Kenya Railway Pro Alfred Nandwa, Peris Venessa, Joseph Kaguru and Terry Odoo finished with a combined score of 84 which included the Nandwa's individual score of level par.

Thika Golf Clubs Pro Simon Ngige and Muthaiga’s Greg Snow returned individual scores of 2-under par to lead their ProAm teams to third and fourth positions.

With the ProAm now concluded, focus shifts to the main Safari Tour event to be held from Sunday 25th August to Wednesday 28th August 2019. The Pros will tee off for their first round from 7am tomorrow.

Bhavi Shah, a lady golf professional, will play alongside her male counterparts and Nyali's Matthew Wahome will make his professional debut at this first Safari Tour event.