WELL OUT: Hannah Rutenbar comes out of the bunker at the General Motors Golf Day.

By DISMAS ONYANGO

Mercy Njuguna from Kitale beat over 100 seasoned golfers to win the General Motors Golf day at her home club in Kitale on Saturday.

Playing off handicap 36, Mercy carded   43 pts to emerge overall winner carding 22 on the front nine and 14 on the back nine.

Mercy played two over par on the first hole and three over par on the second hole. She recovered with a par on the third hole, got a bogey on the fourth got an impressive par on the 5^th followed it up with one under par on the 6^th.

Two over par on the 7^th, dropped two shots on the 8^th and dropped a single shot on the 9^th to finish with 22 points.

At the back nine, she dropped two points on the 10^th, recovered with a level par on the 11^th. Dropped two shots on the 12^th, dropped a single shot on the 13^th dropped two more shots on the 14^th, dropped a single shot each on the 15^th and 16^th dropped two shots on the 17^th and got a solitary point on the 19^th to finish with 21points on the back nine.

“The course was tough, but I played my level best, the greens were very fast and the fairways were not very windy” said an elated Mercy Njuguna after she received she overall trophy from General Motors.

Mike Arusei playing off handicap 15 was a distant second with 37 points playing 20 and 14 on the nines respectively.

Bhavi Shah with 36 points was overall third combining 17 and 13 followed by Elly Sorobea 36    points; Cherry Dale 36 points overall Fifth.

Francis Gitau 35 points, Elisha Mwei 35 points and Zipporah Kittony 34 points were 6^th17th and 8th respectively.

General Motors East Africa in conjunction with Central Farmers Garage promised to continue sponsoring the event. air max air max

WHAT NEXT: Saahil Patel playing off handicap 13 ponders his on his next move as he prepares to putt at the par 3 11th hole during the tournament.

By CYNTHIA OMBATI

Anjly Shah beat a large field of 180 seasoned golfers to shoot the best score during the Crown Berger Teflon Revolution Golf day over the weekend at the par 72 Sigona Golf club.
Anjly posted a total of 41 stable ford points after combining 18 and 23 on outward and inward respectively.
Playing off handicap 11 she set off the day with a par on par 4, dropped a shot, a bogey on par 3 and shot a par on fourth longest -par 5.
Shah, the Longest hitting lady at the club dropped shots on fifth- par 3, seventh and double bogie on par 4- eighth, shooting two pars on sixth and ninth for an outward 18.
A birdie on the 10th dog-leg par 5 set a stunning back nine performance for Shah with nothing less than a bogie for a inward 23.
Seven back to back pars on 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th respectively and the only dropped shot on second nine on the par 4- thirteenth hole.
“I opted for a 4-iron on all my tee shots on pars four and five which kept my balls on the fairway. At least I was always on with two or three shots and a maximum of two putts. The green keeper made the greens very difficult for putting and therefore it wasn’t an easy play though but I managed”, said Anjly Shah on receiving her prize from Crown Berger’s Chief Executive Officer Rao Rakesh.
Playing off 17, Ashok Chandarana shot the second best for the day after combining 21 and 20 on outward and inward respectively for 41 stable ford points losing on count back from Anjly Shah.
Ashok managed for pars on outward nine; 1st, 6th, 8th and 9th but dropped shots on the rest of the holes with a double bogey on stroke index 1 par 4 -7th.
Ashok shot five pars on inward nine dropping shots on 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th holes for 20.
Bachu Patel playing off 19 was third on returning 40 stable ford points followed by Haki Sehmi playing off 10 with 39 points. Shivani Chandaria playing off 17 came fifth overall after hitting 39 points.
Sigona Club’s Chairman Hitesh Patel hit the only hole in one for this month at the club. Patel used a 7-iron on hole number 5 to sink it in.
Guest winner was Hendrik Jan with 36 points and the longest drive went to Honey choda.All the winners received Golf accessories from Crown Berger. nike air max nike air max