Controversy as North GT wins regionals
Aug 10, 2003
THE Northern golf team pushed its record to six wins after a hotly contested Inter Regional golf championship final day yesterday
By James Bakama and William Muwonge
Day1 Day2 Total
Northern 26 35 61
Western 38 23 61
Eastern 35 22 57
Buganda 13 30 43
THE Northern golf team pushed its record to six wins after a hotly contested Inter Regional golf championship final day yesterday.
North drew Western 61-61 forcing a tie-breaker. The mode to break the stalemate caused a lot of controversy, but eventually the champion was got (93 ups against 92 over 36 holes) at the end of the the first matchplay regional event at the Kitante course.
The decision went Northern’s way when a score wrongly recorded against its player Esther Odom was revised.
Odom was 3-up against Western’s Jenina Nasimolo but a 2-up score had been registered.
Before the anomaly was detected, Uganda Golf Union (UGU) held a 45-minute meeting that resolved a play-off on number 12, 17 and 18.
Western picked national champion Deo Akope for the play-off but North declined to present a player. Northern team sat back defiantly.
They questioned the legitimacy of the meeting that ruled in favour of a play-off and argued that UGU president Jim Muhwezi, a western team player, should not have chaired it.
UGU rules state that a disputes committee should be in place to handle such controversies.
Western team was crestfallen as Northern went into celebration. To set the pace was the champions’ senior member Opika Opoka who went into the Ajulin dance.
“At the end of the day what is important is not holding aloft the trophy, but the principle,†captain Waigo said.â€
Day1 Day2 Total
Northern 26 35 61
Western 38 23 61
Eastern 35 22 57
Buganda 13 30 43
THE Northern golf team pushed its record to six wins after a hotly contested Inter Regional golf championship final day yesterday.
North drew Western 61-61 forcing a tie-breaker. The mode to break the stalemate caused a lot of controversy, but eventually the champion was got (93 ups against 92 over 36 holes) at the end of the the first matchplay regional event at the Kitante course.
The decision went Northern’s way when a score wrongly recorded against its player Esther Odom was revised.
Odom was 3-up against Western’s Jenina Nasimolo but a 2-up score had been registered.
Before the anomaly was detected, Uganda Golf Union (UGU) held a 45-minute meeting that resolved a play-off on number 12, 17 and 18.
Western picked national champion Deo Akope for the play-off but North declined to present a player. Northern team sat back defiantly.
They questioned the legitimacy of the meeting that ruled in favour of a play-off and argued that UGU president Jim Muhwezi, a western team player, should not have chaired it.
UGU rules state that a disputes committee should be in place to handle such controversies.
Western team was crestfallen as Northern went into celebration. To set the pace was the champions’ senior member Opika Opoka who went into the Ajulin dance.
“At the end of the day what is important is not holding aloft the trophy, but the principle,†captain Waigo said.â€