Busy schedule awaits Ugandan junior golfers

 

 

With less than three months to the event, there is no time for relaxation as the team must prepare for both the World Cup and the Victoria Cup against Kenya all in June.

 

The team will also compete in the Zone IV championships in Burundi and the All Africa Championships in Mauritius in tournaments spread across the year.

 

To scout for more talent for the team for future engagements, the Uganda Golf Union will this year strengthen the Uganda Junior Golf Academy by distributing more junior golf equipment to clubs in order to increase the number of junior players in the country.

 

The target is to have 100 players involved in and playing the sport by the end of the year as per the Royal and Ancient Club suggestion to the union; according to Uganda Golf Union (UGU) president Innocent Kihika.

 

Addressing the press at Gems Cambridge International School before presenting the team that won second place in the All-Africa Junior Golf Challenge, to qualify for the 2019 Toyota Junior World Cup in Japan, Kihika said they were going to roll out more programs outside Kampala to tap more talent for future engagements.

 

"Despite Lugazi being the main center for the Uganda Junior Academy, we have tasked Toro, Entebbe, Namulonge and Tororo clubs to recruit more juniors to play. In Entebbe, 35 juniors have been recruited while every Wednesday Entebbe Junior School pupils have golf lessons as part of their PE lessons," Kihika stated.

 

Gems offered air tickets worth sh13.8m to the team that had Joel Basalaine, Denis Asaba, Michael Alunga, Ibrahim Aliga, and their coach Stephen Kasaija, to the annual championship in Botswana were they never disappointed.

 

Global Head-Affordable Schools Dr. Farooq Wasil in the company of Gems Enrollment and Marketing Manager Brenda Mutesi congratulated the team upon their success and promised to consider doing more for the team.