Golfers Saidimu, Muigua lead chase for International Pairs Race to Portugal series
By Emmanuel.Masinde, August 1, 2023
NAIVASHA: Karen Country Club’s Terra Saidimu and hot-charging junior golfer and Kenya Team player Elvis Muigua from Kiambu Golf Club paired up at the Great Rift Valley Golf Resort and played a team score of 43 points to emerge the winners of the international pairs qualifier played on Saturday.
They had earlier been knocked out of the 101st Kenya Amateur Matchplay Championship. The two beat the pair of Kiplangat Sang & Ken Biegon from Kericho Golf Club on countback.
The event attracted a total of 39 pairs from 19 clubs across the country. The players from Kericho Golf Club had a great show where four pairs out of the seven from the club finished within the top five positions.
The pairs of David Biegon & Charles Keter, Elvis Koech & Ezekiel Koech and Collins Kipkurui & Reuben Muruguru all played 41 points finishing in the third, fourth and fifth positions respectively on countback. The top four pairs and the first mixed pair of Bernard Kiraithe & Kathure Njoroge from Royal Nairobi Golf Club who played 39 points secured slots to the Kenya Grand Finale to be played on September 1.