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Pigamingi- Are Kenya golf professionals killing the game?

Local maestro Dismas Indiza in action. [File, Standard]

Golf is alive and well in Kenya, but only in quantity, not quality. It is therefore strange that in a case of biting the hand that feeds you, the one group of people who gain the most from golf and depend on it for living, are the same ones fighting the proposed reforms in the sector meant to improve it.

The group of golfers in Kenya that go by the moniker Professional Golfers of Kenya, PGK, are a curious lot. They are a group I love to support but one that I unfortunately often have to criticise sharply quite often.

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