Golf talent needs grooming for national team action
Sep 26, 2011
THE 71st Uganda Golf Open may have been won by 40-year-old Rogers Byaruhanga but it also showed there are still countless youngsters capable of delivering results for the national team.
By Douglas Mazune
THE 71st Uganda Golf Open may have been won by 40-year-old Rogers Byaruhanga but it also showed there are still countless youngsters capable of delivering results for the national team.
With the level of competition exhibited by the youthful golfers, there is no reason to worry about the void created by the majority of national team players who quit the amateur ranks after winning the East African Challenge in Rwanda.
With the East African Challenge just two months away, Uganda Golf Union (UGU) should embark on preparations for the tournament now.
The Uganda Open was a perfect platform for potential national team players to showcase their abilities and it should be a basis for national team selection.
It would be wise for the UGU to subject the top 20 and absentee notable good performers to participate in the tournament to national team selection trials.
An analysis of scores indicate a lot of promising young players are so close in form that there is need for a selection trial to be fair to all of them.
Otherwise, late preparations would lead to handpicking of the team which will certainly negatively affect performance.
The Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania teams started preparations for the tournament two months ago which calls on Uganda for immediate focus on the national team.
Besides that, UGU should endeavour to create conditions that will retain the new team in amateur ranks for at least two years.
THE 71st Uganda Golf Open may have been won by 40-year-old Rogers Byaruhanga but it also showed there are still countless youngsters capable of delivering results for the national team.
With the level of competition exhibited by the youthful golfers, there is no reason to worry about the void created by the majority of national team players who quit the amateur ranks after winning the East African Challenge in Rwanda.
With the East African Challenge just two months away, Uganda Golf Union (UGU) should embark on preparations for the tournament now.
The Uganda Open was a perfect platform for potential national team players to showcase their abilities and it should be a basis for national team selection.
It would be wise for the UGU to subject the top 20 and absentee notable good performers to participate in the tournament to national team selection trials.
An analysis of scores indicate a lot of promising young players are so close in form that there is need for a selection trial to be fair to all of them.
Otherwise, late preparations would lead to handpicking of the team which will certainly negatively affect performance.
The Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania teams started preparations for the tournament two months ago which calls on Uganda for immediate focus on the national team.
Besides that, UGU should endeavour to create conditions that will retain the new team in amateur ranks for at least two years.