Golf: Uganda slips to 8th despite Basalaine's 80

Round three scores-Uganda

Joel Basalaine 80

Edwin Okwong 88

Morris Asaba 89

Herman Mutebi 89

Team leaderboard after round 3
1.South Africa 655
2.Zimbabwe 693
3.Morocco 711
4.Tunisia 720
5.Kenya 736
6.Egypt 737
7.Zambia 757
8.Uganda 771
9.Nigeria 821

Uganda's Joel Basalaine improved his scores tremendously in round three at the the 18th edition of the All-Africa Junior Golf Championship in Tunisia, but the team's overall performance was still below par.

Basalaine who had hitherto returned the worst scores (96+92) for team Uganda in the opening two rounds; which did not count to the team's score, this time carded what is so far the best individual score, an 80 gross.

As he improved, the rest instead continued to struggle with Edwin Okwong (88), Morris Asaba (89) and Herman Mutebi (89) still failing to find a formula of conquering the El Kantaoui Golf Course in Sousse.

"Joel was 4 over (76gross) up to hole No.17 which he bogeyed and double bogeyed the 18," team leader Oscar Semawere said of Basalaine's round.

Uganda who were 7th after round two consequently slipped to 8th position out of 9 participating countries.

South Africa's Herman Loubser and Marco Steyn who returned the best individual gross scores (71 each) in the second round  together with Dylan Mostert and Dylan Naidoo were still firing well to give the 18-time champions, South African team a comfortable lead going into the last round of the four-day championship.