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Enjoy Golf in your Golden AgeNamakula stands alone in East AfricaMuthugia is GOTY Champion Hardwork pays for MudanyiKasuku promises KCB Fireworks Taking Stock - 3 Years of MTN MugsFireworks as Ntegereize WinsKenya Open - Money in Barclays Bank

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Tracing the Origins of Golf – Part 1The A-Z of Golfing Terms & Jargons

FEATURES 40

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President Museveni Okays Chobe Golf Course

GOLF & BUSINESS 47

UGC House as seen from the bunker at the 18th hole

16Flavia Namakula is the 2010 Uganda Ladies Open Champion

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68 Entebbe Golf Club as seen from the 17th hole

TG Chats with Haider SomaniTG Chats with Herman Mutaawe

TG CHATROOM 50

Be a Complete PlayerThe Short Game - Circle in the SandJunior Instructions - Putting & ChippingGolf Rules & Etiquette

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Entebbe Golf Club - East Africa’s Golf Birthplace

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Dear Reader,

Celebrating 2 years of True Golfer.

Before 2009, East Africa was void – without a publication that golfers would call theirs. Hole-in-ones, great putts and chips, eagles… were played by wonderful golfers with no one to take stock of them.

The birth of True Golfer on January 2, 2009 was welcomed by golfers, sponsors and advertisers

and golf enthusiasts as a niche product to fit in the golf information gap cre-ated by print and electronic media. “We now have our own publication,” one

senior golfer at UGC said as he perused through the pages of the True Golfer maiden issue.

True Golfer has lived for two years, 24 months, 104 weeks, 730 days, printed undisrupted 12 issues, 60,000 copies and gained a readership of over 300,000 people!

We believe in continuous innovation to make our product fresher, more en-joyable and rewarding to our esteemed readers and advertisers.

Henceforth, we have employed the services of an experienced creative consultant who has improved on cover design and layout as well as pho-tography.

The content, too, is richer with well-defined and elaborate sections. This is not the end in itself. We are making more investment to make

True Golfer a MUST READ magazine - for even golf haters. In this Issue, our cover story focuses on Sgt. Flavia Namakula, the

golfer, soldier, mother, academician, lifestyle and aspira-tions. Expect a lot more in issues to come.

Wishing You a Prosperous 2011.

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Dr. Sebbaale, what relationship is there between golf and health?

Just as the old adage goes, “a healthy mind in a healthy body,” golf has a keen relationship with health. Golf has a great im-pact on the different com-ponents of the body of all age groups; mental, body, heart, backbone and the physical components.

MentalComponent Golf helps the mind to

concentrate which is key to a human brain in terms of development and mainte-nance for the growing age group. When teeing off, that moment requires 100% concentration; which is vital for a developing mind to concentrate. For the mid-dle-age group, teeing off keeps the brain sharper and more alert. For the aging group, that moment keeps the brain going. If the mind is redundant, the degen-eration process is faster. Besides, golf involves walk-ing an equivalent of 7-8km on the course. Courses are normally located in areas with beautiful sceneries mixed with bird and animal life. Walking and looking at beautiful nature along the

course is good for the mind. Golf helps to off-load stress. Walking in the company of good people and enjoying the natural beauty is a great ingredient to the brain.

BodyComponentGolf also keeps the mus-

cle tone doing away with muscle rigidity. It keeps the muscles relaxed.

Heart ComponentBrisk walk, among the

young improves heart activ-ity. Did you know that stud-ies comparing health ben-efits from brisk walking and jogging has shown no sig-nificant differences? Guys, keep up the Golf.

Backbone ComponentRhythmic activity like a

good golf swing has al-ways been known to help maintain the back. The mechanics that maintain the integrity of the back depend largely on balance of power of back muscles. A good swing requires the body to swing to the right and then to the left in such a balanced manner; which exercise keeps the muscles to the left and to the right of the back in balanced power. The moment these two are

cut out of balance, the back alignment is disrupted; and this is the basic ingredient of most backbone diseases.

Physical ComponentMany people think that

golf is a lazy sport … tell that to the likes of Tiger Woods! These professionals have a regular gym program be-cause they know what it takes.

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Coca-Cola Assistant Captain, Dennis Sokiri, lifts trophy high after being declared winner of 2010 Corporate League title. This is Coca-Cola’s third win in a row.

Starting this year, golf is going to be included on the Corporate League com-petition calendar. This was disclosed by Corporate League President, Sam Tumuhimbise at a dinner to mark the end of 2010 sea-son at Hotel Africa on Satur-day, December 11.

The Corporate League brings together staff from different companies to compete in sports disci-plines that include football, volleyball, basket ball, net-ball, pool, athletics, swim-ming and table tennis.

“We are going to ask all the 37 companies to send four people for the inaugural tournament which we hope will be held in mid March,” Tumuhimbise said.

Coca – Cola was last year’s champion of the Cor-porate League.

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“With the Ryder Cup over, I am working hard to get my golf game back in shape so that I can get myself back on the leader boards. The Bushnell laser rangefinders are an invaluable practice aid which I will use in my tournament preparations. They are No.1 in their busi-ness and I am very happy they have chosen me as an ambassador for their brand on Tour,” elated Monty ex-plained.

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Dorcus Inzikuru, a former Commonwealth 3000m steeplechase champion, showed that she could make a great golfer when she took to par-72 Kitante course during the DSTV In-vitational on December 10.

What was surprising was how she quickly learnt how to hold the club, swing and putt.”I will start playing golf when I retire from athletics,” Inzikuru said after she made a perfect putt under Deo Akope’s tutorship.

Being one of the top sports personalities, Multi-Choice Uganda (owners of the DSTV brand), Inzikuru was invited to tee-off one of the biggest corporate tour-naments of 2010.

The tournament was won by Henry Rugambwa after

returning 44 points. Other winners were John Waigo (38), Nikhil Damani (36), Brian Cross (44), Guru Singh (41), Jasper Kamukama (39) and Fancy Ogweng (37).

Peter Ssendaula won the professionals category after a play-off with Vincent Bya-mukama and 2010 Uganda Open Champion, Brian Mwesigwa. The trio had lev-elled at 68 points.

Royal and Ancient Chief Executive, Peter Dawson, has been appointed the first president of world golf’s governing body.

Ty Votaw was named vice president of the Internation-

al Golf Federation. He is an executive vice president for the PGA Tour.

Both men will serve two-year terms beginning Jan. 1 while continuing in their existing roles with their re-spective organizations.

Dawson has served as joint secretary of the IGF since 1999. Votaw helped to spearhead golf’s successful bid for inclusion in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Antony Scanlon took over as the IGF’s executive direc-

tor on Nov. 1. The IGF was founded in 1958 and has been recognized by the IOC as golf’s official world body.

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DAWSON IS NEWIGF PRESIDENT

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Getting older is a fact of life and retirement is part of it. Your Golden Years have arrived; and how does this affect your amateur golf! My personal experience is that I find I am playing the best golf of my life and my handicap gets better as I grow older; this is most likely due to a new a positive, relaxed “retirement” mental attitude. For seniors, golf is one of the most popular outdoor games you can participate in without injury.

What constitutes a sen-ior golfer...age...ability...health...rules? Senior golf-ers sometimes lose their distance and start thinking of what to do next. Play-

ing off the seniors tee box gives many have a feeling of letting themselves down, particularly for a senior who wants to beat the younger ones. However with the proliferation of new technol-ogy of senior golf clubs and equipment most seniors will feel comfortable play-ing off the regular tee box for much longer. Conversely you could win a few bets by utilizing the new technology and playing off the seniors tee box...but this is up to you! We need to discuss this program seriously at the UGC. Senior golfers some-times lose their distance be-

cause they haven’t adjusted their stance and equipment to meet their changing fit-ness. That can be easily

rectified and you never have to stop playing golf, just make a few changes.

For seniors, you can par-ticipate in without injury so follow these tips to maintain

or increase your distance. Inevitably, your body will change as you become old-er but that’s no reason not to stay fit. You don’t have to run ten miles, just do some strengthening exercises and flexibility training. This is particularly necessary for

your back and shoulders so that you can maintain that swing and for the legs too. If you’re particularly keen,

ENJOY GOLF IN YOUR GOLDEN YEARS!

Senior golfers finish off at the 18th hole at Kitante course.

PLAYING THE BEST GOLF OF

MY LIFE!

BY PROFESSORHERBERT NSANZE

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some light weight lifting will help you to sustain strength in your upper body which will also help your swing and distance. Fitness is also needed to walk the length of that golf course.

This “funny notion” that exercise might be good for you has been around for quite a while now. It might even catch on. It’s funny

too that many seniors play golf for the exercise but that many of them could actually benefit from some simple additional exercises, play better and not risk injury. And these exercises are not really very hard to do or time consuming.

Unfortunately, until re-cently, we seniors haven’t got the message, or maybe we just haven’t bought into it. In fact, the most difficult thing about these exercises for senior golfers is get-ting them to do them. We all suffer from various small aches and pains in different parts of our bodies. Make

sure you always warm up by doing light exercises before your golfing “exercise” so that these minor aches and pains do not become major injuries.

Prevention is the best cure when it comes to injuries. Don’t let then hap-pen in the first place. Like it or not, stretching is far and away the best prevention

for most golf related injuries, aches and pains.

Light stretching exercises are not only good for sen-iors but have been known to have a major impact on their scores. Golfers as old as 80 years and older can remain active and competitive by taking just a few minutes to “warm up’’ before hitting the links.

There are even cases where stretching exercises have eased and even elimi-nated existing back pains in senior golfers. If the young and incredibly physically fit stretch before exercise, how much more important must

it be for old guys like us. Golf is More Physically Demand-ing Than Most of Us Think. It may not get your heart racing like running or bike riding and you many never need to lift anything heavier than a divot, but golf can be demanding upon your body. The golf swing is a physi-cally demanding movement using muscles in ways that almost nothing else in life uses them.

Certainly the exercise you choose needs to fit your age and condition -- don’t attempt a marathon if you are 70 and have never run a race in your life, but do not be afraid to get out and play a bit. Exercise is generally

safe for people of all ages and older adults often hurt their health far more by not exercising than by exercis-ing.

The mental side of the game, exercise, vacation spots like monthly tours to other courses, popular golf equipment, feel free to spend some retirement funds, and many more tips are all geared specifically to the Senior Golfers.

Top: Golfers at the 10th green during the MTN Grand Finale. Right: Mathew Koech tees at Kitante during the MTN Mugs.

A GOLF SWING IS PHYSICALLY DEMANDING

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BY TG REPORTERWhen she went in ma-

ternity leave shortly after failing to defend her title in Kenya Ladies Open in 2009, there was a lot of suspi-cion that Flavia Namakula is out of golf. That she would not make a comeback as has been the case with other sports personalities across the globe. They were wrong!

Two months after birth, Namakula was back into golf. This time at the quiet En-tebbe Golf Club located near her home. “I gave birth in on December 2, 2009. I used to go to En-tebbe course on range with baby Joanita. I would hit balls, breast feed, hit balls – beast feed … I was more deter-mined to get back into the game, reclaim my handicap five and then take it on from there,” Namakula told True Golfer.

THE COMEBACKWithin six months of her

return, 24-year-old Na-makula had already gone to her winning way. She

won the Machakos Ladies Open in Kenya, two weeks before winning the highly billed Uganda Ladies Open. Last month she won the MTN Mug of Mugs – setting

a new record of 67 points at Kitante course. The 2008 Kenya Ladies Open cham-pion broke Monica Ntege’s record of 68 set in 2008. Namakula dedicates her

NAMAKULA STANDSALONE IN EAST AFRICA!

Flavia Namakula in action at Entebbe Golf Course.


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Uganda Ladies Open title to her one-year-old daughter, Joanita Nanyombi.

WINNING SECRET Distance, Focus, Pa-

tience and ability to Con-tain Pressure are the key winning attributes of this former Bulo Secondary School student who used to play netball, basketball and handball.

Namakula is a long-hitter, who maintains her compo-sure while on the course. She focuses on her game rather than people. She doesn’t count her scores as she plays. She is so focused to the game that she failed to notice that she had won when she sank a birdie on

hole No. 18 during the La-dies Open at Kitante. This makes the difference. At handicap three, Namakula is the youngest lady cham-pion and holds the lowest handicap in the region. She stands alone in East Africa.

“My biggest challenge now is to get better play-ers who can give me a real challenge. I have played with Eva Okatch and Jas-per Kamukama of Uganda. I have also played Hawa Wanyeche of Tanzania and Mary Karano of Kenya. But what I need now is to play with more affluent ladies in bigger tournament to en-able me take my game to another level,” explained Namakula who looks at

Michelle Wie as her role model.

TURNING PRODespite the open door for

her to join paid ranks, Na-makula feels the time is not ripe yet. She hopes to get a sponsor who can meet her tour expenses in South Africa where she hopes to play with finer players to im-prove her game.

“If I want, I can turn pro now but I feel I am not ready. I have to sort out the issue of sponsorship and also improve on my game.

Much as people say I have a good swing, I know that there are a few aspects of my game that I have to work on before I think of

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crossing to professional ranks. You know you have to be a complete player for you to make money in pro-golf,” she continued to explain.

LIFESTYLEShe is fairly tall, petit,

beautiful, a graduate of Informational Technology of Makerere University and working with Uganda Peo-ple’s Defence Forces; but you wouldn’t find Sgt. Flavia Namakula boasting on any of those. You wouldn’t find her in night clubs neither is she a party animal.

Despite her celebrity sta-tus, the reigning Uganda La-dies Open champion con-tinues to live a simple life. If you don’t find her home doing domestic chores, it is most likely that she is play-ing golf at Uganda Golf Club or Entebbe Golf Club. Golf takes most of her time and she loves it.

Married to Captain Aloy-sius Kimera, Namakula carries out herself like any other woman. “Namakula is a very loving and caring per-son. Golf ends at the club. When she is at home, she cooks food, breastfeeds the baby, attends to visitors, washes clothes and cleans the home like any ordinary woman. She is down to earth and I love her for that,” Kimera talked of his wife’s character. Kimera is also a golfer at Entebbe Golf Club.

BEHIND HER SUCCESSSuccess never come

singly. Somebody has to be

behind, or is it infont of, you if you are to succeed.

To Namakula, she would have never known this game if it was not for UPDF that was looking for talents to represent them in golf. “I dedicate my success to Lt. Gen. Ivan Koreta who saw the talent in me and

recruited me in the sports department of UPDF. I am greatly indebted to him,” said Namakula with humility. She also points out Uganda

Professional Golfers Asso-ciation captain, Deo Akope, and Eva Okatch as the key people who have shaped her game.

“Okatch is a very good player. I like her game and I have learnt from her quite a lot. I also appreciate Akope for helping me to improve my game from time to time. When Akope sees a prob-lem with my swing, he ad-vises me on how to correct it. Thank you very much,” Namakula appreciated.

With the passion and speed she is taking the game, it will not be long before Namakula hits conti-nental headlines. Only spon-sorship stands in her way.

You looked so sur-prised when you were declared winner of the Uganda Ladies Open. Weren’t you expecting to win?

The game was tough. Playing with the likes of Jasper Kamukama, Eva Okatch, Eaton Angel made my winning unpredictable. I mean any of us could win. What complicated my game was that Kamukama and Okatch were ahead of me. To see that I managed to cut all of them off was just miracle.

How do you feel now that you are the cham-pion?

Winning Uganda Ladies Open is a great addition to

Top: Flavia Namakula with friend Irene Nakalembe (left) and Eva Okatch (right).Middle: Namakula with hus-band, Capt. Alosyious Kimera (left) and friend Yona Nte-gereize at Entebbe Golf Club.Bottom: Entebbe Golf Club.

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my golf career. My profile has improved tremendously and I want to capitalize on this and take my game to another level.

Is this your first ma-jor win?

I won Kenya Ladies Open in 2008 and Machakos Ladies Open a few months

before Uganda Ladies Open. I have also won a number of local tourna-ments.

Where did you get the motivation to join the army at such a young age?

I was in my S.6 vaca-tion and had been playing netball for my school Bulo Parents School. We had a coach who told me that the

army was recruiting sports persons and that I could join. I was scared of the mili-tary training in the beginning but she told me that it was different for sports persons.

So, I was playing for the army when I enrolled for my Information Technology de-gree at Makerere University

in 2006. That is when I was recruited in the golf team.

Sports women do not bounce back as fast as you did. How did you do it?

Golf is not as demanding as say athletics. After giving birth, I started serious train-ing at Entebbe Golf Course which is near my home. I was very committed and had enough time to get

back in shape. My baby is now one-year-old.

What are your aspi-rations?

I plan to become a pro-fessional golfer and I also want to play with better players in countries like South Africa where courses are better.

What benefits do you envisage being a pro-fessional lady golfer?

Unlike amateurs who play for trophies, pros play for cash and tournament spon-sors know it. In Uganda, we have 15 male professionals and only one professional lady golfer, Norah Mbabazi, who is currently living in Sweden.

Flavia Namakula putts as Irene Nakalembe looks on.


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Is golf money big enough to live on?

Elsewhere in the world, golfers earn big money when they feature in tour-naments and commercials. Though pros in East Africa are not making as much money as their counterparts abroad, I know we are get-ting there.

What do you do out-side golf?

I don’t do all the domestic chores. Occasionally, we got out with my husband for fishing. I do it for fun.

NAMAKULA FACT FILEHandicap 3

Age 24 years

Date of Birth December 10, 1986

Place of Birth Rubaga Hospital

Residence Entebbe

Club Membership Uganda Golf Club, Entebbe Golf Club

Academic Qualifications Bachelor of Information Technology

Makerere University

Family Married to Cpt. Aloysius Kimera

Mother of 1-year-old girl

MAJOR WINS2008 Kenya Ladies Open

September, 2010 Machakos Ladies Open

October, 2010 Uganda Ladies Open

December, 2010 MTN Mug of Mugs – 2010

CAREER MILESTONESYoungest Uganda Ladies Open Champion (at age of 24 years)

First Ugandan lady to win Kenya Ladies Open Youngest Kenya Ladies Open Champion (at age of 22 years)

Played 5-under, setting a record low score at Kitante course



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SULLIVAN MUTHUGIA IS THE GOTY CHAMP!BY TG TOUR PRODespite his poor finish

in three events; namely Diani Beach Masters, Manchester Salver and the Uhuru Shield where he failed to score any points, Thika Sports Club’s Sul-livan Muthugia still braved the hot sun and strong wind Coastal wind to claim Kenya’s most prestigious amateur golf trophy, the Golfer Of The Year series.

26-year-old Muthugia attributed his victory in the GOTY series (the amateur Order of Merit in Kenya) on sponsorship.

“I have had very good sponsorship for the past two years. This has ena-bled me to cris-cross the country, playing the 18 tournaments,’’ said Muthu-gia who started playing golf at Njoro Country Club in Nakuru along with now top professional, Simon Ngige.

Patrick Wachira Njuca has given me great sup-port that has made it possible for me to play in the national events since I started venturing into the GOTY series. I am so grateful to him.

Muthugia started his career at handicap five and within three years, he had gone down to handi-cap two. But it was until he shifted from Njoro to Thika when his golf started pick-ing up to the top.

“I started improving

when I ventured into the GOTY series. Here, I met and competed with very serious and more experi-ence players. I was able to finish fourth overall in the 2009 GOTY series’’ said Muthugia.


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He jumped onto the top of the GOTY points table in late April when the then leader Boniface Simwa got sick after the return from the Africa Zone Six Championship. He led up to October when the World Amateur Team Champion-ship team selection saga started.

“The controversy in the national team selection re-

ally affected my game and this is why I could not play well in the Diani Beach Mas-ters, the Manchester Salver and the Uhuru Shield. Col-lins Omondi won both Man-chester Salver and Uhuru Shield and moved on top.

I decided to look for points in the final event, the Nyali Open. I really wanted to prove a point that though I was not selected in the national team to the World Championship in Argentina,

it was not because I was not good enough and up to the task,’’ he added.

During the 2010 Nyali Open at the tough playing Nyali Golf and Country Club from December 18 to 19, Muthugia shot rounds 76, 77 and 81 to tie in fifth place with Limuru Country Club’s Francis Kimani on an aggre-gate of 234 gross. Omondi on the other hand, made a

slow start returning 81, 79 and 75 to finish a shot be-hind, which earned him only four and half points against Muthugia’s 6.75 points. This gave Muthugia a grand total of 113.50 points to win the ti-tle by the knife-edge margin of one and half points from Omondi.

The aggregate was bet-ter than the 2009 scored by Francis Kimani; though still well below the record of 131 points by Kopan Timbe who

is now the resident profes-sional at Nyali. The winner of the last event (Nyali Open), Boniface Simwa, finished third overall with a total of 99 points. Muthaiga’s Nelson Mudanyi was unable to par-ticipate in the grand finale because he was engaged in another event which had been organized to raise funds for his trip to America for studies at the Academy of America. He remained in fourth place with 84 points and David Opati of Golf Park completed the top five with 75.66 points, despite finish-ing 15th at Nyali.

Muthugia’s GOTY vic-tory has earned him an automatic entry to the 2011 Braclays Bank Kenya Open at Muthaiga Golf Club from March 31 to April 4. The condition is that he has to remain an amateur up to then. Muthugia said he would turn professional this January.

It was however a tough year for GOTY defending champion Francis Kimani whose only victory was at his home club, Limuru, where he won the Limuru Open ahead of Sullivan Muthugia and Robinson Owiti. Kimani finished sixth overall with 59.88 points.

With most of the top am-ateurs planning to turn pro-fessional this year, the 2011 GOTY will be once again open to any player who will be able to cris-cross the country playing in the series.

SULLIVAN MUTHUGIA IS THE GOTY CHAMP!

Collins Omondi finished second in the GOTY tournament.


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Determination and self discipline has earned Ken-ya’s fourth ranked amateur golfer Nelson Mudanyi a two year study programs in America’s most prestigious golf school, the Golf Acad-emy of America in Orlando Florida.

The 22 year old Mudanyi who has been a golfer for the past 11 years was due to leave for Orlando Florida during Boxing Day, to start his two year study at the Academy which has pro-duced some of America’s greatest professional golf-ers. Golf Academy of Amer-ica offers various academic and golf programs up to a degree level. It prepares youngsters particularly those who aspire to be pro-fessionals or managers in golf business and manage-ment.

Mudanyi’s trip to America was initiated by former Golf Talent Foundation chair-man Dr. Patrick Musimba of Musimba Investments, one of East Africa’s biggest golf supporters who along with other Kenyan golfers such as Housing Finance boss Frank Ireri, business-men Peter Kihanya and Sam Kairu and 2010 Muth-

aiga Golf Club captain Dr. Macharia Irungu. “These men saw my potential in the game of golf and the way I have been conducting myself and offered to sup-port to the Academy. I will

forever be grateful to them because not only have they opened the door for but to also other talented Kenyan youngsters,’’ said excited Mudanyi during a fund-raising event organized by his club to raise funds for his trip to the United States of America.

An off scratch golfer, Mudanyi, a winner of many national and club golf titles including the Nyali Open in Mombasa, Kenya’s last leg

in the annual Order of Merit better known in Kenya as Golfer Of The Year (GOTY) which he could not defend because of his trip to the United States, says he is looking forward to improve

and take his game to a dif-ferent level.

“I believe with the coach-ing and the kind of facilities I am likely to have in America, I have a chance of taking my game to a higher level’’ he told True Golfer. The two year program cost roughly about 52,000 US dollars or about Ksh4.2m, an amount which Mudanyi says he could not have managed to raise without the support of his sponsors.

DICIPLINE & HARD WORK PAYS FOR

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Nelson Mudanyi left for Or-lando Florida on December 26, 2010 to start his two year study at the Golf Academy of America, an instituttion that has produced some of Ameri-ca’s top professional Golfers.


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APPRECIATION” My heart goes to all

those who have stood by me throughout my golfing career as well as my educa-tion. I would like to particu-larly thank Abdallah “Baba’’ Bekah of Vet Lab, Patrick Nduati and Duncan Kabue who made sure that I do not drop out of school because of lack of school fees’’ said Mudanyi, adding that he was also very grateful to one Steve Gichohi who has already started assisting his brother (Mudanyi’s) by pay-ing for his education also.

“I respect the game of golf because it is through this game that I have come to meet many people not only in Kenya but many places in the world. And now here I am on my way to America, a place which I did not even dream of reach-ing’’ added Mudanyi who started his golf career in late 1999 as a junior.

HOW HE STARTEDCurrently ranked fourth in

the Order Of Merit or GOTY and a likely participant in the 2011 Kenya Open which he would like to play if he gets a ticket to come home in March, Mudanyi launched

his career in Eldoret, where in 2002, he was sported by American based Kenyan professional Ajay Shah then based at the Great Rift Val-ley Resort in Naivasha.

Under Shah’s coaching, Mudanyi soon started fea-turing in the national events; then playing off handicap 10. Before trying his lack in the national events, Mudanyi featured in the junior events, particularly in the Boys and Girls Championship, which Abdalla Bekah through Sedgwick Insurance Bro-kers sponsored for many years.

His breakthrough came in 2004 when he won the Junior Stroke play Cham-pionship and the Junior Match play championship where he beat Sigona’s Ganeev Giddie 2-1 in the final match. This victory saw him represent Kenya in international junior events including the British Junior Open in Scotland; and later the Africa Junior Challenge in Namibia in 2005 and later in Swaziland in 2006. In the same year, he was listed in the senior team for the Africa Zone Six in Kampala, Uganda.

“My break through basi-cally was in 2004 when I started playing in the Golfer of The Year tournaments, then at Thika Sports Club where Walsh Irungu assist-ed me to become a junior member’’ says Mudanyi.

It was actual in 2004 when Mudanyi won his first national golf title, the Wind-sor Classic. Thereafter, he went on to win events such as Muthaiga Open at Muthaiga, the club that offered him membership early in 2010. Before that, Mudanyi had represented both Thika Sports Club and Vet Lab Sports in some of the team events such as the Nairobi District Foursomes and Kenya’s top foursome match play tournament and the Tannahill Shield held an-nually at Royal Nairobi Golf Club.

Mudanyi is also a past winner of the Coast Open in Mombasa and the Mount Kenya Championship. He was in Kenya’s national team which won the Africa Zone Six trophy in Gabor-one Botswana in April 2010 which was Kenya’s first vic-tory since it started partici-pating in the championship in 1989.

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BY TG TOUR PROAfter a thrilling KCB East

Africa Golf Tour which saw Thika Sports Club’s Simon Ngige beat seasoned pro-fessional Dismas Indiza by the narrow margin of five points to become the new KCB East Africa Tour Order of Merit Champion, tour di-rector Elisha Kasuku is more than set to roll out the 2011 calendar of events.

But going by Kasuku’s proposed calendar, nothing out of the ordinary appears to be in store for East Af-rica’s more than 50 profes-sionals. For a start, Kasuku said in mid-December 2010 that a Sunshine Tour event was out of question in so far as the KCB Tour is con-cerned.

But the proposed 2011 calendar includes a Kenya Classic Sunshine event at newly constructed Vipingo Ridge, north of Mombasa Kenya, an event which Kas-uku says will be organized and supported by Vipingo Ridge itself in collaboration with the Southern Africa’s Sunshine Tour. (More details of this event will be available in True Golfer – Issue 14).

The venues for this year’s Tour, like the 2010 series, remains Thika, Muthaiga, Nyanza, Arusha Gymkhana in Tanzania, Kigali Rwanda, Nakuru, Uganda Golf Club, Kampala and the grand fi-nale at Nyali Golf and Coun-

try Club in Mombasa’s main island north.

Nyali has now become the popular venue of the country’s grand finale events which include the Kenya Golf Union Golfer Of The Year (GOTY) series which is Kenya’s Order of Merit for amateurs.

The only changes that Kasuku anticipates in this year’s Tour is a slight in-crease in terms of prize money for some of the local rounds. Kasuku, a former international and Olympian Walker, turned professional golfer, says KCB which started Tour more than

five years ago has agreed to put in Sh50,000 each in the Thika, Nyanza and Na-kuru; which means those events will now be offering Sh500,000 as total prize money while the prize fund at Muthaiga is expected to double to Sh1,000,000 which will be the second biggest event in terms of prize money in the country besides the grand finale at Nyali where at total of Sh3,000,000 was at stake in last year’s final leg.

“I am extremely grateful to KCB for their continued support of the Tour which has become a truly inter-national event that gath-ers golfers’ attention in the region and even as far as South Africa. Last year, the tour brought together more than 50 professionals from East, Central and Southern African countries. I firmly believe that the 2011 Tour will continue contributing and fostering the talent of new professional golfers for the future by providing them with the opportunities and grow as athletes through not only their individual skills against their seniors, but also by giving them a mean-ingful exchange of experi-ence’’ said Kasuku.

The 2010 champion, Simon Ngige, got off to a grand start by winning his home tournament and though he did not do well

KASUKU PROMISES 2011 KCB FIREWORKS!

Elisha Kasuku, KCB Tournament Director

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at Muthaiga and at Nakuru where he played most of his early event as an amateur, it was the Arusha, Kigali and Kampala where he pro-duced his usual fireworks.

He tied for second place at Arusha Gymkhana, won the Kigali round and then came a close third at the Uganda Golf Club in Kam-

pala to position himself for a good finish at Nyali.

However, it was new-comer, Greg Snow from Muthaiga who emerged the best local - though with a poor six over par 290 and a whole nine shots behind South Africa’s top black professional James Kamte who travelled to Mombasa for the event despite the fact that the Sunshine Tour of which Kamte is a mem-ber, had withdrawn from the event.

Kamte who has featured in the European Interna-tional Tour, American PGA, Asian and the European Challenge Tour in addition to the Sunshine Tour, was in Kenya courtesy of Tanza-nian Golf Union president, Dioniz Malinzi, who paid for his travelling and accommo-dation expenses.

Kamte is likely to come in August if an invitation is ex-tended to him. But Kamte or not, this year’s Tour is likely to produce even more fire-works particularly with more leading amateurs expected to venture into the paid

ranks this year. But back to the East African profession-als, those who are out to topple Ngige from the top of the Order Of Merit besides Dismas Indiza who made a late charge to the top, will be Richard Ainley, Anil Shah, Ali Kimani, all of whom are experience tour players and the new comers Greg

Snow, Ganeev Giddie and South Africa based Stefan Andersen if he decides to join the pro ranks. No doubt as tour director Kasuku predicted, the 2011 is likely to be another great season for the region’s profession-als, thanks to the Dr. Martin Odour-Otieno led KCB.

Simon Ngige won the 2010 KCB East Africa Golf Tour.

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When MTN Uganda launched monthly mugs three years ago at Uganda Golf Club, hardly did anyone know how these monthly competitions would impact on the lives of golfers in the region. Until 2008, mugs were taken more like clubnites today. There was no motivation to pull peo-ple from other clubs or countries to par-ticipate in the monthly competitions. Things are different now.

MTN Monthly Mugs are now important golf competitions on the UGU calendar. At the end of every month, over one hundred golf-ers compete in the monthly mugs at Kitante course to improve their game, accu-mulate points for quarterly rewards and to win and get monthly prizes.

IMPACT ONGOLFERSThe MTN sponsored

mugs have given great op-portunity to golfers to im-prove on their golf perform-ance. Mugs have become reference tournaments where golfers, whether amateur or professional,

go to fine tune their skills. Champions like Jasper Ka-mukama, Flavia Namakula

and Brian Mwesigwa at-tribute their success to their continuous participation in

The mugs. Through regular participation, they were able to lower their handicaps; making themselves ready to triumph at the championships. “MTN Monthly Mugs have greatly helped me to up my game. Through the monthly competitions, I was able to reduce my handicap to plus one and this made me ready for Uganda Open,” remarked Brian Mwesigwa who turned pro after win-

ning the 2010 Uganda Amateur Open. Many golfers at UGC have managed to go to sin-

gle handicap because of their regular participation in the mugs.

BEYOND MUGSApart from sponsoring

mugs, MTN continues to “throw” money to selected tournaments and individu-als. In the last three years, they have sponsored other tournaments like the 2009 All Africa Challenge Trophy for East and Central Africa that attracted golfers from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia.

TAKING STOCKTHREE YEARS OF MTN MUGS

NAMAKULA SETS NEW RECORD!

Pros (R-L) Vincent Byamukama, Herman Mu-taawe and Deo Akope receive a cash prize of Ush 16m from MTN’s Chief Marketing Officer,

Isaac Nsereko (on far left).

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Last year, MTN signed up Uganda Professional Golfers Association cap-tain, Deo Akope, as their brand career. They injected Ush50m in the deal.

SPONSORSHIPBENEFITSIn the past three years,

MTN has managed to strengthen their brand equi-ty among the golfers in the country. Also MTN sponsors the monthly competitions as a way of giving back to their esteemed customers.

NAMUKULA SETSNEW RECORDNamakula hit 67; setting a

new record at par-72 Ki-tante course. The towering golfer broke Monica Ntege’s

Top: Vincent Byamukama takes his final putt at the 18th hole during the MTN Mug of Mugs. Bottom: Lt. Gen. Ivan Koreta fires the ball at the 10th tee.


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record of 68 set three years ago. She emerged the over-all winner of the MTN Mug of Mugs hosted at Uganda Golf Club on December 11. Namakula also doubled as a longest drive winner.

Little known Lindane Ndlovu, playing off handicap 23, returned 66 nett to claim the top prize in the men’s category. National Ama-teur Team Deputy Captain, Emmanuel Opio Onito fired 69 to emerge gross win-ner – ahead of Philip Kasozi with 73. Other winners were Onyango Matata with 69 nett won the men’s group A. Cyril Aluku, with 67 nett, won group B while Chang Linchang was winner group C with 66. Petra Nalwoga and Katy Kabenge claimed Group A and B in the ladies section.

PROSDeo Akope topped the

professional leader board with minus thirteen in a two days competition. Most improved professional, Her-man Mutaawe garnered 317 points to emerge the 4th Quarter winner and second best professional. Mutaawe

accumulated 887 points, the highest in 2010 MTN Mugs. He was followed by Vincent Byamukama, who joined paid ranks in early 2010, with a total of 614 points. MTN Uganda gave professionals Ush 16m in prize money.

Top: Whose swing is best? Vincent Byamukama (left), Silver Opio (middle) and Herman Mutaawe (right). Bottom: Golfers at the 10th hole at Kitante course.



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BY TG REPORTERThere was excitement

and jubilation as Yona Nte-gereize won the Grand Mug of Mugs, an event that climaxed the Orange spon-sored mugs at Entebbe Golf Club. Fireworks, singing and ululations filled the atmos-phere upon announcement of the eventual winner of the twelve-times-long set of tournaments.

Ntegereize basked to glo-ry after returning 72 points, winning himself a 3G iphone from Orange Uganda, the

event sponsor. He was fol-lowed by Shawn Farel with 73 and then teenager, Joel Bantu who shot 74.

“This is my Christmas gift. The game was tough but I am happy I have won,” an excited Ntegereize said.

Henry Luggya – 75, James Matsiko – 76 and An-drew Kibaya – 72 emerged winners of groups A, B and C respectively. Pauline Nambi won the ladies cat-egory after firing 74 points, ahead of Irene Nakalembe who finished with 78 points.

FIREWORKS AS NTEGEREIZE WINS!

Yona Ntegereize receive iPhone 3G from Orange Uganda official amidst fireworks and ulula-tions after emerging overall winner of the Grand Mug of Mugs.


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Also Joseph Mawejje - 69, Denson Lunga – 72 and Arthur Ndegwa – 78 fin-ished first, second and third respectively in the guests category.

Orange Uganda, the fifth telecommunication com-pany in Uganda, partnered with Parambot Breweries (under Moonberg brand) to sponsor Orange Mugs at Entebbe Golf Club at the beginning of 2010. Orange injected over Ush100m in cash and prizes hence be-coming the dominant part-ner.

According to Maximila Byenkya, Orange’s Chief Officer – Legal and Corpo-rate Affairs, the sponsorship was a strategy to position Orange brand on the Ugan-dan market. Secondly, they wanted to give golfers Or-ange Experience.

Because of the attractive prizes such as phones and internet connection, Orange Mugs have attracted hun-dreds of people into play this year.

Orange promises to inject more money into the mugs and other tournaments with the aim of strengthening their brand in the minds of golfers this year.

Top: Louis Chua putts on the 5th green at EGC. Middle: Lady Golfers on EGC greens during the Grand Mug of Mugs. Bottom: Scratch player, Stephen Odong on the 3rd tee at EGC.


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Top: A bunker shot at the Entebbe course 17th hole during the Grand Mug of Mugs.Bottom: Deo Akope tests his Titleist gear at EGC to the admiration of others.


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After playing the role of Gold category sponsorship for over 10 years, Barclays Bank of Kenya eventually decided to claim its rightful place in the history of Ken-ya’s premier golfing event, the Kenya Open Golf Cham-pionship.

On December 2, 2010, Barclays Bank concluded a three year sponsorship deal with the Kenya Open Golf Limited, a company which was formed by the Kenya Golf Union to run the annual event which became part of the European Challenge Tour in 1991.

The KSh39m sponsor-ship agreement which amounts to KSh13,000,000 every year now gives Bar-clays Bank the right to be-come the title sponsors, thus with affect from this year, the open will hence be known as the Barclays Kenya Open.

Barclays Bank follows the footsteps of past title spon-sors BAT East Africa which sponsored first under its top brand of Benson and Hedges (from 1979 to 1983) and later under the State Express or 555 from 1984 to 1990. Standard Chartered Bank sponsored from 1991 to 1996, Lonrho East Africa in 1997, Kenya Breweries from 1998 to 2001, Sameer Group in 2002 while East

African Breweries spon-sored from 2005 to 2009.Before BAT took over the mantle of title sponsorship, the Kenya Open had run without a title sponsor right from its inception in 1967

to 1978. There were, how-ever, other years when the organizers were not able to find an overall sponsor and that besides the early years, includes 2004 when the event was revived after failing to take place in 2003 due to total lack of sponsor-ship.

It was in 2004 when the open was shifted to Karen Country Club because its

traditional venue, Muth-aiga, was still undergoing construction. Unveiling the sponsorship at Barclays’ head office, the bank’s Corporate Director, Nick Mbuvi, who represented the Managing Director - Adan Mohamed, said the spon-sorship of the event was part of the Bank’s support for sports development in Kenya.

Kenya Open which draws some of the top golfers from East Africa as well as overseas, will be held from March 31 to April 4 at Muth-aiga Golf Club. He said that the sponsorship was an opportunity for Barclays Bank to contribute towards improving the golfing stand-ards in Kenya and the re-gion. “Barclays recognizes

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Barclays’ Nick Mbuvi (third left) hands over a cheque to Kenya Open Chairman, Peter Kanyago (second right).


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the power of sport to con-nect with customers and consumers from diverse backgrounds. We have been involved in developing professional leagues such as the Barclays Premier League and recently cycling here in Kenya, and we are committed to promoting ex-cellence in the golfing sport,

’’ said Mbuvi. He added that Barclays Kenya will work closely with the Kenya Open Golf Ltd to identify ways of creating opportunities such

as golf clinics to help local players sharpen their skills and encourage first-timers to participate in the sport.

On receiving the spon-sorship cheque, the Chair-man of Kenya Open Golf Limited, Peter Kanyago, said “we are delighted by this strategic partnership with Barclays Kenya and we

will ensure that the three year sponsorship they have committed to will be han-dled with transparency and accountability in all aspects

of the organization. We as KOGL are committed to putting together a world-class tournament that will be a showcase of interna-tional golfing standards.”

The championship has grown in stature over the years and remains the big-gest golfing event in the East Africa region. Kenya Open is one of the only tournaments that meet’s and maintains the standards of the PGA specifications and recommendations, thus attracting top international players from the European Tour and from Africa. Kan-yago used the function to introduce the new Kenya Open Tournament Director, Eng Patrick Obath, who re-places long serving director Peter Coombes.

Obath assured golf en-thusiasts in Kenya and East Africa as a whole that, the 2011 event will be an open with a difference.

“We have lined-up a lot besides the four rounds and the Pro-Am. As usual, we will have about 100 players coming from the European Challenge Tour while 56 players will come from else-where in the world include Kenya, Africa and some special invitees’’ said Obath.

The Kenya Open is one of the most popular event in the Challenge Tour series and it will always attract-ed top players. This year, the field will also include six local amateurs, who like the professionals, will have to make the second round cut to proceed to the final two rounds.

Stefan Andersen - a likely candidate for the Kenya Open.


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BY MICHAEL FLANNERYAUTHOR OF Golf

ThrouGh The AGes – 600 YeArs of Golf-inG ArT, AND A MEM-BER OF ST ANDREWS GOLF CLUB.

Beginning a Bully for the hockey-like game of Crosse/Chole/Kolf. This illustration appears in the Printed Book of Hours, Les Heurs de Romme, calendar page for January. By Simon Vostre for Philippe Pigou-chet. Paris 1498. (Courtesy Racquet & Tennis Club, New York and Golf Through

the Ages). Nearing the end of his reign, confronted by real and present danger on his border with England, King James II of Scotland (1430 – 1460) uttered a de-cree intended to ensure the safety of his realm through bringing his army up to the standards required for mod-ern warfare.

For more than 150 years, in battle after battle, English Longbowmen had deter-mined the outcome. James decided that his subjects would drill until they be-came the ‘Mothers of All Archers’. Key to victory in

medieval combat was the long bow, its length the height of a man or more, requiring great strength and much practice to draw and fire rapidly. It was a fearsome weapon, made even more so by custom-ized arrows. The choice included armour-piercing tips for use against chain-mail; the barbed ‘Swallow Tail’ against horses; or flam-mable tips for psychological warfare. In 1188, an English knight fighting the Welsh (the undisputed masters of this particular art of killing), recounted how an arrow

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WAS SCOTLAND THE BIRTHPLACE OF GOLF? EARLY DAYS • FROM ABOUT 1100 TO 1460

Beginning a Bully for the hockey-like game of Crosse/ Chole/ Kolf

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pierced his chain mail and clothing, continued through his thigh, saddle and finally, horse.

It would be mislead-ing to suggest that James’ only interest was to defend his realm against the on-slaughts of the eternally aggressive Sassenachs. The king, who wore the dyspeptic look of someone who had bitten into a fro-zen haggis, was, in fact, a masterful ruler – vigorous, popular, and ambitious, with plans to annex Ork-ney, Shetland and the Isle of Man. Known as ‘Fiery Face’ for a vermil-lion birthmark, he was pos-sessed of a hair trigger temper. Ac-cording to a 1452 eyewitness account, James, threatened by a key alliance formed by the 8th earl of Douglas, flew into a rage and stabbed his rival to death.

While encouraging ar-chery, James, who was passionate about weap-onry in general, was also developing state-of-the-art artillery – with fateful conse-quences. While besieging Roxburgh Castle, one of the last strongholds still held by the English following the Wars of Independence, a canon exploded killing the 29 year old king. Under his

successors, longbow prac-tice continued to be man-datory.

The James edict, de-signed to enhance the defence of Scotland and expand his sphere of influ-ence, harboured the inno-cent words, ‘fut bawe and golf, a fact that attracted neither attention nor interest for the next 400-odd years. Finally spotted by some

keen-eyed Victorian histo-rian, these two words – par-ticularly ‘golf’, were used to put an enduring spin on golf history.

The fateful document in which the word ‘golf’ first appeared, was Act of Parlia-ment number 338, a hand-written manuscript pub-lished in Edinburg, 6 March, 1457. It was entitled, ‘Anent Wapinshawing’ – of the practice of arms – and read:

Item. It is ordanyt and decreyt… (th)at ye fut bawe and ye golf be Utterly cryt done and not usyt and (th)at ye bowe markes be maid at all paroch kirkes apair of buttes and shutting be usyt ilk sunday…

or, in Modern English:Item. It is ordained and

decreed… that football and golf be utterly condemned and stopped and that a pair

of targets be made at all parish kirks and shooting be practiced every Sunday.

It’s worth taking a mo-ment to ex-amine James’ sparse words, for the first-known written use of ‘golf’ created a virtually un-assailable legend. Gen-

erations of historians and writers seized on the decree and cited Act number 338 to support the idea that an early target sport, similar in nature and form to the Royal & Ancient game, was already in place by the fifteenth century and popular enough at that time to warrant its prohibition, not once, but again in the acts of 1471 and 1491. As we shall see, there were such clubs and games, but not in Scot-land.

Despite the absence of any documentation show-ing that a golf-like game had been played in the British

Six hundred years of Golf Arts

ACT NO. 338 MENTIONED GOLF FIRST

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Isles before 1457, Robert Clark, the learned Andrew Lang, Horace Hutchinson and Robert Browning were among the golf historians who, hook, line and sinker, swallowed the ‘Immacu-late Conception’ theory of golf. Based on a single, un-defined written word – they giddily committed to the legend that Scotland was the birthplace of golf. In 1956, writing in The History of Golf in Britain, Guy Camp-bell, captured the absurdity of their capitulation to fan-tasy and wishful thinking:

‘And before this Act . . . nothing? Nothing at all!

Indeed, but for this em-bargo, so far as Scotland is concerned, it is as if the game might never have been…. A game that was such a national obsession must have had an origin… but since… Scottish lore can supply no reference either to myth or origin, we must seek a line elsewhere. Fortunately, this can be found on the Continent…’

Incredibly, Campbell’s analytical and intuitive con-clusion was met with dis-dain by the Scottish golf establishment. Over the next fifty years, not a single native golf writer ventured to tackle the vast resources of European history, litera-ture and art, to test Sir Guy’s conclusion. Shackled by a lamentable lack of academ-ic curiosity and enveloped in a fog of dogma, vested interest and torpor, Scot-tish golf historians doggedly continued marching to their own drum – oblivious to the

conclusions of contempo-rary research. For them, the golfing sun will forever re-volve around Caledonia.

James had made it clear

that time freed up from ye fut bawe and ye golf was to be devoted to archery practice. In the context of thirteenth and fourteenth century warfare, his proc-

lamation was weighted with historic inevitability. The longbow had a well-deserved reputation for levelling odds in key battles. June 24th, 1340, at Sluys, a battle that determined control of the Channel dur-ing the Hundred Years’ War, English archers dev-astated their ship-borne enemy, killing an estimated 20,000 French soldiers. Six years later at Crécy, Eng-lish bowmen concentrated their firepower of ‘swallow

tail’ arrows at five rounds per minute on the en-emy’s horses. Without their mounts, the knights’ de-structive potential collapsed like soufflé in a cold breeze. The vastly superior French force was slaughtered.

At Agincourt in 1415, 5,000 lightly-armoured English longbowmen fired until their last arrow was expended then, drawing their 3 foot swords, joined the fray. The French army, wearing armour from head

to toe, lumbered helplessly like men in deep-sea-diving suits. Feathered shafts and greater mobility again car-ried the day.

The Scots, too, had learned bitter lessons, first at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, and again in 1346 at Neville’s Cross, where they suffered devastat-ing defeats at the hands of Welsh and English bowmen. James was convinced that with skilled, disciplined Scot-tish archers, this could nev-

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er happen again. ‘Practice makes perfect’, became the order of the realm.

Knowing the historical context, it’s difficult to fault James’ logic in sharpen-ing the skills of Scottish bowmen. But why did he single out ye fut-bawe and its companion game, ye golf, to be Utterly cryt done and not usyd? As we know them today, football and golf are harmonious social recreations and, on the surface, have about as

much in common as chalk and cheese – or rugby and billiards, to stay close to our subject. Surely, the sports-mad Scots were equally hooked on the national pas-sions, cache (hand-tennis), bowls, caber tossing, throw-ing the stone and wrestling?

To survive in Scotland’s volatile fifteenth century po-litical climate required a far-ranging intelligence network and the canny king was well informed. James would have been aware of the

long tumultuous history of ‘football’ and ‘golf’ in France and the Low Countries. Known on the Continent as soule and soule à la crosse (a.k.a. crosse, choule, chole, kolf, kolfspelen, tsollen met der kolven), for centuries these violent games had been perceived as a threat to political stability, and had trailed death, injury and de-struction in their wake (see illustration above).

Their popularity went back to the early Medieval

Ages: In 1147, a French lord, in ratifying a charter of do-nation for his local church, laid down certain condi-tions, in particular that, to-gether with a notional sum to be paid directly to him, the church would present him with seven footballs (ballons) ‘… of the greatest dimensions’. In 1378, soule was traditional enough to be described as so ancient its origins are beyond memory.

Sports, particularly the unruly recreations of com-

moners, were viewed with scepticism and disapproval by authorities everywhere. In 1261, as documented in Grands Chroniques de France, the French became the first to blow the whistle on violent ball games, with a proclamation that would provide a model for mon-archs, the church, and mu-nicipal authorities for years to come. At the heart of the edict was the contention that ball games interfered with the regular practice of arms – which could have serious consequences for countries hell-bent on tak-ing over others – or defend-ing their own sovereignty. The model for the James edict had already been in place for two centuries.

In 1314, the English King Edward II, who few took se-riously (not least, because of the pleasure he found in common labour and noble boyfriends, but also his hab-it of riding around London with a lion in his cart) de-cided to head north to bring the unruly Scots perma-nently to heel – something not even his father, Edward I, ‘Long shanks’, a fierce warrior who earned the epithet Malleus scotorum – ‘Hammer of the Scots’, had managed to do.

To eliminate one poten-tial distraction from this high profile, well-organized campaign, Nicolas Farn-done, the Mayor of London, decided to chase football out of his bailiwick. ‘… great uproar in the City through certain tumults arising from great footballs’ (grosses

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pelotes de pee), Hizzoner forbade play within city walls ‘… upon pain of imprison-ment’. The forceful ban and ensuing (temporary) calm weren’t strong enough medicine to save Edward’s bacon. His army was slaughtered at Bannock-burn by Scots led by Robert Bruce.

Living up to his reputa-tion, the English king igno-miniously fled the battle-field and skulked home. 16 November, 1326, all credit with his lords gone, Edward was arrested. January 1327, he abdicated and shortly thereafter, was brutally murdered. In one sense, the tragic monarch had the last word. Gloucester Cathedral (where Edward II is en-tombed) possesses a mag-nificent Great East Window which contains the image of a French soule à la crosse player (as pictured on the previous page), often re-ferred to as ‘The Golf Player’ – a warning against playing outlawed games.

Bans against ball games – even though there was little evidence that they worked, and considerable, that they didn’t – quickly became a tradition and authorities in England, France, and Brus-sels followed suit, some-times issuing them long after the reason for doing so was gone. James’ 1457 edict was repeated more or less intact in two similar acts (1471 and 1491) before it was recognized as redun-dant and dropped from the books. But canny James had a very good reason

for singling out these two games. In a word, if you played ye fut bawe or ye golf, you were likely to be badly injured, and an injured bowman was as useless as a soggy bagpipe.

In 1583, Phillip Stubbes’ Anatomy of Abuses was published. One passage captures the mad dog nature of football: ‘For as concerning footballe play-ing, I protest unto you it may rather be called a friendly kinde of fight than a play or recreation, a bloody murthering practice than a felowly sporte or pastime.

For dooth not everyone lye in waight for his adver-sarie, seeking to overthrowe him, and to picke (pitch) him on his nose, though it be upon hard stones… So that by this meanes, sometimes their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes their arms; sometimes one part thrust out of joint, sometime an-other; sometime the nose gush out with blood, some-time their eyes start out: and sometimes hurt in one place, sometimes in an-other.’

The truth is that ye fut-bawe and ye golf were two sides of the same, badly-tarnished coin. The French historian, Jean-Michael Mehl, lumped them to-gether under the French term, soule: “The brutality of

soule, a game played with the hand, foot or crosse (a hockey-like club) explains its frequent mention in letters of remission (a legal docu-ment) which permits one to form a rather precise idea of the game. It consists of two teams, sometimes made up of several tens of players who contested the posses-sion of a large ball of wood or of a ball of leather filled with moss and bran, to car-ry it to a place determined in advance, be it the side of their adversary or their own side… These games were bloody and often deadly.”

Played by medieval com-moners, the ‘games’ were most often mob scenes with no semblance of team play– all glory accrued to whoever scored the goal. At any stage, anyone could join the fray and attempt to wrest the ball away, us-ing fists, knees and feet to achieve his aim – often a golden opportunity to repay old scores and grudges.

Despite their shared brutality, there was a vital distinction between soule and soule à la crosse (soule played with a crosse). The introduction of a one-piece wooden club with a curved hockey stick-like head, meant that the ball had to be struck with a club to propel it – instead of being carried, thrown or advanced with the fist, foot or knee.

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d’adresse (games of skill), a first step towards golf. From the earliest-known depiction of a crosse (about 1260) we see that the club was swung with both hands to generate maximum power – a primary characteristic of the game that would emerge centuries later as Scottish golf.

By now, the reader can forgiven for thinking that a medieval spectator couldn’t even walk past a penny-pitching match without getting at least one black eye. Yet for over 700 years a number of non-violent so-cial recreations flourished throughout Europe.

These included bowls, half-bowls, skittles, cloish (also called ringball), bad-minton, hand-tennis (jeu de paume) and whipping tops. Balls were tossed back and forth and sticks, balls and discs, thrown at targets. There were also batting and fielding games, some of which resembled baseball. The earliest known illustration of such a game, showing a crosse similar to a shepherd’s crook being used as the bat, is an illus-tration in Bede’s Life of St Cuthbert, about 1120.

Games characterized by violence when played by commoners often took on a different character in the hands of landed gen-try, aristocracy and royalty. Jeanne d’Evreux (1310-1371)

third wife of King Charles IV of France was docu-mented as having played the hockey-like game of crosse using a silver club. Played in schools through the 19th century, hockey was a favourite tradition. In the mid-14th century, John of Hubant, founder of Ave Maria College of Narbonne, in Paris, encouraged his wards to play the old popu-lar games of French folklore. A marginal note in a college record dated 1346, singles out Crocet/Crosse played with a curved club shaped like a hockey stick, among traditional children’s games (Les Jeux des Enffenz).

Another sport tamed in the hands of the aristocracy was the ancient game of soule/football, which un-derwent a dramatic trans-formation when adopted at the court of the magnificent all-round athlete, Henri II. The French king’s matches against the intrepid M. Laval became regular fixtures at Le Pré aux Clercs in Paris. The lineup featured His Majesty with the poet Pierre de Ronsard at his side – Henri’s Hurricanes clad in white uniforms, Laval’s Lions in red. Farther south in the city states of Flor-ence and Venice, the Medici had already tarted up soule (known in Italy as calzo or calcio) in new finery, rules, and enough razzmatazz to rival the Super Bowl.

Despite interdictions, soule and crosse contin-ued to be popular through centuries – the players sometimes dressed to kill;

sometimes in rags – until the two ancient ball games eventually petered out in the late 19th century in Brittany, the most sports-mad region of France. But Soule and Crosse, despite their popu-larity, were not everybody’s cup of tea. As society devel-oped, games that required tactics, skill, and custom-made playing equipment emerged and by the late 13th century, change was in the air. Club and ball target sports – each team or play-er with his own ball – be-came increasingly popular.

Centuries before the first reports of similar games in Scotland, golf was in the making in France. The earli-est documents and artwork depicting golf-like games come from Paris and La Touraine, which most of us know for its Loire Valley. There was a historical inevi-tability as to why the ‘Home to Kings’ – fertile, prosper-ous and cultured – had the honours as the birthplace of golf.

The story begins in Paris, the Greatest City of Chris-tendom where, in 1292, we pick up the first thread of early golf, and begin to unravel the game’s com-plex fabric as it passed from France, through the Neth-erlands, Flanders and Italy, over more than three cen-turies before reaching Scot-land’s shores.

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BY TG MAGAZINE Golf has a language all

its own, including many old Scottish words and some real oddities, but also eve-ryday words used in a spe-cial way. So keep up on the course or in the 19th with our golfing glossary. In this Issue we explain the A,B,C, D of Golf.

ABOvE THE HOLERefers to a ball on any

sloping green positioned so that the next putt is downhill. Downhill putts are harder to judge for speed and slope, and also riskier, so the good golfer aims to keep his ball ‘below the hole’ at all times.

ACE A hole in one.

ALBATROSSThree under par score at

a hole. Known as a ‘double-eagle’ in the US.

APPROACHShort or medium shot

to either the pin or putting green.

ATTEND THE FLAG To remove and hold flag

whilst another player putts.

AWAY The person furthest way

from the hole and the first to play.

BACK The last nine holes of a

golf course. Also a tee posi-tion that makes hole the longest.

BELOW THE HOLE Your ball is ‘below the

hole’ on a green if your next putt is uphill. Uphill putts can be struck firmly, meaning that any break is less im-portant and there is less risk of running way beyond the hole.

This is particularly true of fast greens, such as one finds in high-level tourna-ments. The opposite of ‘above the hole’.

BEST BALLBETTER BALLBest score on a hole

by partners in a best-ball match.

BIRDIE One under par score on

a hole.

BOGEY One over par score on a

hole.

BREAKIn putting, the curve the

ball will follow due to slope and/or grain in the green.

CARRYDistance a ball travels

from impact to hitting the ground.

CHIPShort shot played with

minimum loft from off the green.

COMPRESSIONDegree of resilience of a

golf ball.

CONDORProbably the rarest of all

scores in golf: four under par on a hole, ie a hole in one on a par five. Only four examples have ever been recorded, three of them by ‘cutting the corner’ on par fives with a dogleg, which considerably shortens the hole. Also called a ‘triple-eagle’ or double-albatross’ in the US.

DIvOTTurf removed when hit-

ting a shot.

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DOGLEGLeft or right bend in fair-

way.

DOG LICENCEIf the winning margin in

match play is 7&6, the victo-ry (or defeat) is called a dog licence. In Great Britain, until 1987, dog owners bought a licence for their pet which cost 7/6d (pre-decimal cur-rency = 37p).

DORMIEIn match play, having a

lead equal to the number of holes remaining to be played, ie. two up and two to play.

DRAWControlled right to left

shot with a moderate curve (or left to right for left-hand-ers).

DROPWhen the ball is lost, or

there is an unplayable lie, a ball is dropped from arm’s length at shoulder height onto the course.

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During the launch of the Chobe Safari Lodge in Murchison Falls National Park late last year, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, instructed the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry and Uganda Wildlife Author-ity to allow the Madhvani Group to build a golf course and swimming pool in the park.

“What is wrong with giv-ing Madhvani a few yards to build a swimming pool? Let them build the pool and put

the golf course in place be-cause I don’t see how these interfere with conservation,” Museveni said.

The President said in-vestors like the Madhvanis’ have played a big role in the recovery of the economy

and therefore need govern-ment support.

The directive was made in response to an applica-tion that the Madhvanis had made a few years ago to construct a golf course in the park. It was halted by Uganda Wildlife Author-ity because of the dangers envisaged on wildlife.

The UWA Acting Execu-tive Director, Mark Kamanzi, has also been blamed by environmentalists for sup-porting a move that would

disrupt wildlife in the park.Mark D. Jordahl, an envi-

ronmentalist writes in part, “while there are efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of golf courses in countries with strict en-vironmental oversight,

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unregulated courses are notoriously polluting. The chemicals used to maintain the “perfect” grass have contaminated water sourc-es around the world. I don’t know where in the park the Madhvanis plan to build this course, but my guess is that they will want a view of the river, which means there is a high likelihood of chemical runoff into the Nile. There is also the issue of irrigat-ing the entire course during the dry season, presumably with water from the river.

Building a golf course in Murchison Falls National Park will also result in yet another area of the park where the wildlife, the main reason for the existence of the park, will not be wel-come. As oil development expands into the production phase, the wildlife will al-ready be feeling pressured as the open habitat shrinks.

Uganda’s natural as-sets should not be sold off to the highest bidder. The national parks here have the highest level of protection of any blocks of land in the country. If even that level of protection can’t keep these

places safe, what does that mean for the rest of the remaining forests and other natural lands? Ugandans successfully fought to keep Museveni from selling off part of Mabira Forest, but they shouldn’t have to con-tinually fight to save places that are already protected.”

GOLF AND WILDLIFE

DON’T MIx - UGAN-DANS SPEAK OUT

It’s a wrong thing. Mur-chison Falls National Park is a gazetted area for ani-mals and activities like that are not allowed. Having a golf course in the middle of the park will attract many people to the park that will distract the animals. It’s an encroachment on their habitat.

Frank Muramuzi, Executive Director, Na-

tional Association of Pro-fessional Environmentalists

There’s nothing wrong with the President allowing a golf course to be built in the park. It does not mean that the land has been given away.

Mark Kamanzi

Executive Director, Uganda Wildlife Authority

A golf course does not really spoil the park environ-ment. The course takes less than a square mile, yet the parks we have occupied are hundreds of square miles. What effect will having three five-star lodges in a 200 sq mile park occupying only 3 sq miles have on the whole park? Absolutely, insignifi-cant on the animal habitat but very significant on the number of tourists visiting the park lodges to relax.

A. Ssewanyana, Kam-pala

The end result is an illegal and forceful marriage be-tween the white ball and the beast. The move is intended to destroy the rich biodi-versity that Murchison Falls National Park provides for Uganda’s development.

Murchison Falls National Park is seen as a virgin space from which tangible benefits can be accrued, but its intangible ecological functions are indispensable and non-substitutable.

Barbara Naggayi Buke-nya, Mbarara

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TG CHATS WITH HAIDER SOMANI

When did you start playing golf?

I started playing golf in 1962 at Kabale Sports Club. I was a businessman there.

How was golf in the 60s?

The whites did not allow us to play nor go near the Golf Course despite the course belonging to the municipality.

Were there many golf courses by then?

Each municipality had a course. However Uganda Golf Club and Kasese were private.

So, when did the blacks and Asians get active in golf?

Blacks and Asians got into golf after independ-ence. When Uganda got independence, the white population dwindled and courses were abandoned. This is the time we took over the management of golf courses and started playing golf.

Which people were instrumental in golf at that time?

I was with late Eng. S. Katama, District Commis-

sioner of Kabale, the Soma-ni family and other Asians.

How do you compare golf in the 60s, 70s and the present time?

Golf has come a long way. Today, there are well-maintained golf courses, the number of players has grown, Uganda has 15 professional players, there is sponsorship, equipment are accessible and there is awareness about golf. This was not the case in the past.

What happened in the 70s during the reign of Iddi Amin?

We remained in Kampala. Our golf was not interrupt-ed.

How has the Somani family contributed to-wards the develop-ment of golf in Ugan-da?

From 1985 – 1995, the Somani family sponsored a tournament in Kabale. Then from 1996 – 2003, the sponsorship was made by Metropolitan Forex Bureau, a Somani family company.

Tell us about Seniors Golfing Society?

I am the founder chair-man of Seniors Golfing Society. We started it with Y. Sidpra, late Francis Ayume, late Zack Muwanga and Naru Thakkar in the early 1990s. The objective was to cater for the affairs of 55 years and above golfers.

What is your role in golf today?

I am a life member and a Trustee at Uganda Golf Club.

What do you do dur-ing your leisure time?

I play golf, pray and have time with my family.

TG CHATROOM

The whiTes did noTallow us To play nor

go near The golf course despiTe The course belonging

To The municipaliTy.

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TG CHATS WITH HERMAN MUTAAWE

When did you start playing golf?

I started in 1998. But be-fore that, I was a caddie.

Any wins during your amateur days?

I won tournaments in Lu-gazi, Arua and Kabale. I was runner-up in Mbarara and Fortportal.

As an amateur, did you play any national role?

Oh yes. I was a member of National Amateur Team that represented Uganda in Arusha, Tanzania.

When did you turn pro?

In 2008. I was playing very well as an amateur and UPGA decided to admit me in the paid ranks.

Have you had any pro outings?

Yes. I have been to Mom-basa, Dar es Salaam and Rwanda.

2010 was a great year for you. You were number 1, 2 or 3 on the pro leaderboard for most of the tourna-ments you participated in. What is the secret?

I do a lot of practice. My routine is that I have to be on the range by 8:00 am and by 1:00 pm I have hit 400 balls. I also do jogging before going to the course.

Who is your role model?

I have played with Kenya’s Dismas Indiza and I really admire his game.

Who is sponsoring you?

I have not signed up with

any sponsor. However, I am sometimes being support-ed by Stanley Mulumba of UgaRose Flowers.

So, you don’t need sponsorship?

That is not what I am say-ing. I badly need a sponsor. I need a better golf kit and I need money to move out and play with better players in bigger tournaments.

Your favourite hole?I like Hole No. 13 at Ki-

tante course.

Your most challeng-ing hole?

Hole No. 12 at Kitante course.

Your favourite dress code during competi-tion?

I am comfortable with two-colour T/shirt and khaki trouser. Black and white is good for me for a T/shirt.

Your favourite dish?Posho and beans with a

lot of greens do for me.

Dream car?Jeep Cherokee.

Marital status?Married with two boys

and one girl.

HAIDER SOMANIHERMAN MUTAAWE

i badly need a spon-sor. i need a beTTer golf kiT and money

To move ouT and play wiTh beTTer players in bigger

TournamenTs.

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One thing I’ve been asked over and over about my experience of great Golf is this. Have you been do-ing anything differently to practice or prepare? The answer might not be excit-ing, but it’s “No.” All the time I have been playing good Golf - was a result of serious work on the same few full-swing fundamentals. I also felt very confident with my putting and the decisions I make out on the course.

What does that mean for you? First, find the two or three basic things you need to work on in your swing and dedicate yourself to im-proving them without get-ting distracted by other tips or swing thoughts.

Everyone talks about the hours I spend at the range, but the practice rounds I play are just as important. You need to put yourself in situations where you’re hitting shots on the course that you’ve been practising on the range.

Read on to learn how to be a complete player.

DRIvER - GO WITH ITOne of the main things I

wanted to improve all along was my consistency with the driver. I did that by mak-ing my swing a little shorter

and tighter. I also have a driver that’s built with a closed face to prevent me from losing shots right. I am so confident with my driver that I hit it a lot straighter than most players do. I can hit my driver straighter than I do with my fairway woods.

IRONS - ACCURACYI am driving well now,

but am not taking advan-tage of that with my short approaches. I worked a lot on alignment - be-ing off even slightly is the difference between a makeable birdie and a good two-putt. You have to be able to target the flag with your short irons to score. Here, you make a controlled smooth weight shift, stay balanced and keep your legs as quiet as possible.

ROUGH - READ THE LIEThe first thing to

remember is to take what the lie will give you. If the ball is sit-ting up on top of the grass, you can take a fairly normal swing. You’ll have to make some adjustments

for a potential flyer (like us-ing less club and getting

ready for more roll). If the ball is sitting down, you have to swing aggres-sively and brace yourself for some resistance at mpact. If the ball is down in the grass, don’t make an easy swing. The club can get caught up even in sparse rough.

CLUBSELECTION -BE AGGRESSIvEI’ve heard people say it’s

better to take more club and swing easy, but I like to play the opposite way when it comes to club se-lection. I love it when I have a yardage that’s just past max - like 146 or 147 yards, when my 9-iron goes 144. Then I can hit a full shot and make a good, solid swing. For the average player, the most important number to know is the distance to car-ry a shot to the front of the green, not to the flag. That’s assuming you’re realistic with your carry yardages.

BUNKERSLess Sand, More Spin: A greenside bunker shot

from a good lie is easier than a chip from the rough. You should be thinking

TG SCH LWITH SADI ATIBU • HEAD OF GOLF CLUB PROFESSIONALS • UGC

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about getting up and down. I pick the spot where I want the club to enter the sand based on how much I want the shot to spin - the closer to the ball, the more the shot will check up. Notice how I’ve held the club open through impact and into the finish to keep the bounce of the club working.

CHIPPING -PICK A SPOT For me, chipping is com-

pletely spot-orientated. First, I decide where I want the ball to drop. Depending on whether to check up or re-lease to the hole, I pick the shot I’m going to hit to that spot. I play most of my chip shots with my L-wedge. If I have to hit something long-er, like a 30-yard chip, I’ll use my pitching-wedge. It’s also a safer chipping club for most amateurs.

THE SECRETIS IN THE DIRT Golf is a job for me. I love

to play, but I’m very serious about what I do. I don’t think there is any excuse for me to play without being com-pletely prepared, and that means practising until I’m confident and ready. That could be three hours and 300 balls after I’ve played. The harder I work in practice the better my results are, so I’m not going to stop. I make my divots in a line, working backwards, because I hit to specific targets.

TIGHT BACKSWINGEveryone used to believe

that you needed a long,

loose backswing to hit the ball far. It isn’t true. I’ve worked to make my back-swing more compact and controlled, and I’m ten yards longer with each club - not to mention straighter - than I was three years ago.

PLANE CHECKI hit my best

shots when my club goes back and comes through on the same plane. To keep track of this, I stick a shaft into the ground at an angle (which resembles the angle of the shaft at address) and lay another shaft on the ground along my target line, just inside the ball. With those shafts in place, I practice with every club, swinging the club back and through so it’s just above the angled shaft.

CLUBFACEI don’t want to miss

shots to the right, so I hit a lot of balls with my caddie behind me, making sure my clubface is square to slightly closed at the top of my backswing. The lines of the shaft and the bottom of the clubhead are parallel to

my left forearm. If the toe of the club were pointing

more downward here, my clubface would be open. Have a coach or friend check your position at

the top - you’ll understand why your shots fly the way they do.

BE ACOMPLETE

PLAYER!

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Perhaps the biggest single hurdle to overcome in teaching basic sand play is the correct set-up posi-tion. Most golfers under-stand the need to open the clubface, but then make the mistake of manipulating the hands and laying the face open independently of the other details that have to be taken into account.

Furthermore, when they open up their stance, most amateurs play the ball way too far back. The exercise you see here can change all that. By drawing a circle in the sand, and then sim-ply adjusting your position around it, you not only ex-perience the sensation of practising from a correctly open stance, but will find that it is easy to play the ball in the correct position - i.e. slightly forward of centre.

The result is greater con-trol of the clubhead as you skim it through the sand - and thus improved trajec-tory and spin. This is what to do: Find a flat area in the sand, and draw a circle (use your club as a compass) with about a 2 foot diame-ter. If I were to take a regular set-up position with a sand iron - as if to play a pitch from the fairway -I would position the ball in the mid-dle of my stance, the lead-ing edge of the clubface aimed dead on the target.

To create an open stance and clubface, simply move

around the circle until the ball is opposite the inside of your left heel. As you do so, shuffle the club through your fingers so that you keep the leading edge of the club ‘looking’ at your target (i.e. the flag) while maintaining a neutral grip as you settle into the shot.

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THE SHORT GAME CIRCLE IN THE SANDUse a sand iron that suits the type of sand you play most often. Hard sand demands a club with less and soft sand a greater degree of bounce.

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THE SHORT GAME CIRCLE IN THE SANDThe lie dictates the shot: i.e. good lie=normal swing, poor lie = V-shaped swing. Wiggle your feet to test the sand and establish a good foundation.

Open the clubface before you make your grip.

Choking down a little compensates for your part-bur-ied feet.

Aim your body 30 degrees left of tar-get - practice us-ing the circle.

Practice a couple of swings to find the right position.


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FEEL THE CLUBFACE WITH THE RIGHT HAND

At first glance this may look very difficult. But prac-

tising with your right hand only is a terrific exercise on these shots, as doing so eliminates any tendency you might have to want to over-control the clubface as you splash it through the sand. [It’s always a good idea to grip an inch or so down the shaft for an enhanced sense of control and feel for the clubhead.

To enjoy the line of least resistance through the sand, you have to learn

to deliver the club along a shallow arc with the face open - the secret to playing these shots well. With just your right hand on the club you will find that the right wrist is encouraged to hinge correctly in the course of the backswing, whereupon you are then able to work on ‘holding off’ the open clubface (i.e. not allowing the toe to pass the heel in the release) as you skim through the sand.

Swing the club as normal - hands and arms follow-ing the line of your body in the sand technique.


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This technique allows you to perform an aggressive action with great control. When you have become

more confident, try hitting balls out of the bunker with one hand. Then, after a few minutes, revert to a regular

grip and go after the same sensations as you repeat that shallow swing that cuts easily through the sand.

Aim to strike two to three inches be-hind the ball for a normal greenside splash shot.

That’s your point!

For a smooth ac-celeration, use the lengths of the follow through to control the dis-tance the ball flies.


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During every Christmas to New Year holiday, chil-dren between 6 and 18 years go to a golf clinic at

Uganda Golf Club to equip themselves with golf tips and etiquette. Sadi Atibu, Head of Golf Club Profes-

sionals shows youngsters how to chip and put.

See the following pages for specific Instructions:

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JUNIOR INSTRUCTIONS THE PERFECT PUTT

1. Narrow your stance with your feet close to-gether and the arms hanging down naturally with the correct hold.

3. Hands and clubhead all moving together as a unit, while the head stays perfectly still as the centre point of the move-ment.

2. The ball is in the centre of the stance which naturally encourages the Y-shaped arms and shaft sym-metry that we will revisit during the stroke itself.

4. The youngster is envisaging the putter-head fol-lowing through after impact-ing the same distance that it travelled back in the take-away.


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THE PERFECT PUTT

5. Notice the perfect symme-try of his swing, with the Y for-mation of the follow-through being an almost exact mirror im-age of the back swing.

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1. The feet should be close together, with hands slightly lower down the handle for a more compact position with the emphasis now on control.

3. The upper body rotated correctly to face the target, with the weight now on the front foot completing the shift that occurs naturally during the downswing.

2. With a back-swing, you need to think of taking your hands back as far as tummy height but the length of swing will vary accord-ing to the length of the shot.

4. Think of hit-ting down and through the ball with the club bouncing on the ground at impact as it encourages the momentum of the clubhead.

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JUNIOR INSTRUCTIONS PERFECT CHIPPING

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Golf is played, for the most part, without the su-pervision of a referee or umpire. The game relies on the integrity of the individual to show consideration for other players, care for the course and to abide by the Rules. All players should conduct themselves in a disciplined manner, dem-onstrating courtesy and sportsmanship at all times, irrespective of how com-petitive they may be.

Etiquette is an integral and inextricable part of the game, which has come to define golf’s values world-wide. Put simply, it is a series of guidelines that exist to show other play-ers, whether through divot repair or awareness of your shadow, a degree of fair-ness which you would ex-pect to receive in return.

In terms of golf’s environ-ment, etiquette is about showing respect for the course on which you are playing and the work that has been put in to create it. It’s about making sure that the game is played safely and that others on the course are able to enjoy the round as much as you.

In short: it’s about show-ing consideration to all others on the course at all times.

BUNKERSBefore leaving a bunker,

players should carefully fill up and smooth over all holes and footprints made by them and any nearby made by others. If a rake is within reasonable prox-imity of the bunker, the rake should be used for this purpose.

REPAIR OF DIvOTSBALL-MARKS AND

DAMAGE BY SHOES Players should care-

fully repair any divot holes made by them and any damage to the putting green made by the impact of a ball (whether or not made by the player himself). On completion of the hole by all players in the group, damage to the putting green caused by golf shoes should be repaired.

PREvENTINGUNNECESSARY

DAMAGE Players should avoid

causing damage to the course by remov-ing divots when taking practice swings or by hitting the head of a club into the ground, whether in anger or for

any other reason.Players should ensure

that no damage is done to the putting green when putting down bags or the flagstick. In order to avoid damaging the hole, play-ers and caddies should not stand too close to the hole and should take care during the handling of the flagstick and the removal of a ball from the hole. The head of a club should not be used to remove a ball from the hole.

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the putting green, particu-larly when removing the ball from the hole. The flagstick should be properly replaced in the hole before the play-ers leave the putting green.

Local notices regulat-ing the movement of golf carts should be strictly observed.A great deal of time and effort goes into the preparation of a golf course so it’s important to play your part by raking bunkers and repairing your divots or pitch-marks.

PLAY AT A GOOD PACE AND KEEP UP

You should always play at a good pace. The com-mittee may establish pace of play guidelines that all

players should follow. It’s a group’s responsibility to keep up with the group in front. If they lose a clear hole and delay the group behind, they should invite the group behind to play through, irrespective of the number of players in that group. Where a group has not lost a clear hole, but it is apparent that the group behind can play faster, they should also invite the faster moving group to overtake them.

BE READY TO PLAY

You should be ready to play as soon as it’s your turn to lay. When on or near the putting green, leave your bags or carts just off the green on the way to the next tee. When the play of a hole has been completed, leave the putting green quickly.

LOST BALL If you think your ball

may be lost outside a water hazard or is out of bounds, to save time, play a provisional

ball. Players searching for a ball should sig-nal the players in the group behind them to play through as soon as it becomes apparent that the ball will not easily be found. They shouldn’t search for five minutes before doing so. Having allowed the group behind to play through,

they shouldn’t continue play until the group coming through has passed and is out of range. Golf is

not a game that needs to be played at a slow pace.


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CONSIDERATIONFOR OTHERSIt’s important to show

respect for all others on the course whether they are your playing partners, your opponents, greenkeep-ing staff or members of the public out enjoying a walk. No Disturbance or Distrac-tion. You should always show consideration for other players on the course and take care not to not disturb their play by moving, talking or making unneces-sary noise.

You should also ensure that any electronic devices taken onto the course don’t distract other players. Only tee your ball up when it’s your turn to play and re-member not to stand close to the ball, directly behind it, or directly behind the hole, when a player is about to swing.

ON THEPUTTING GREEN On the putting green, you

should be careful not stand on another player’s line of putt or, when he is putting, cast a shadow over his line.And you should remain on or close to the putting green until all other players in the group have holed out.

SCORING In stroke play, if

you’re acting as a marker, on the way to the next tee you should, if neces-sary, check the score with the player concerned and record it.

SAFETYEnsure that no one is

standing close by or in a position to be hit by the club, the ball or any stones, pebbles, twigs or the like when they make a stroke or practice swing. Wait until the

players in front are out of range. Players should al-ways alert greenstaff near-by or ahead when they are about to make a stroke that might endanger them.

If your ball’s heading in a direction where there is a danger of it hitting some-one, shout a warning imme-diately.The traditional word of warning is “fore”.



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When Sir Harry John-stone, the naturalist who created Entebbe Botanical Gardens and Zoo, thought of constructing a golf course in 1900 at the shores of Lake Victoria, it sounded much like a dream.

It was not until 1903 that East Africa’s first golf course was launched, attracting

people from different parts of the region to see whites playing a strange game called golf.

Favoured by its location within the nearness of En-tebbe International Airport, Uganda Wildlife Educa-tion Centre (formerly called Entebbe Zoo), Entebbe State Lodge, major hotels

(such as Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Imperial Golf View Hotel and Lake Victoria Hotel) and the Municipal-ity, Entebbe golf course has attracted diplomats and tourists across the world to play golf on what is arguably known as the most chal-lenging course in the Pearl of Africa.

TG 13 • JAN - FEB 2011 COURSES & TRAvEL

ENTEBBE GOLF CLUB EAST AFRICA’S GOLF BIRTHPLACE!

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While Entebbe Golf Club remains the golf cradle of East Africa and one of the very first courses on the African continent, it was not until 1964 that Ugan-dans started playing golf. Before Independence in 1962, golf was known as a white man’s game. Danny Nkata (RIP), remembered to

have redesigned Entebbe golf course, was the first Black African to play golf Entebbe. He was Entebbe Golf Club captain in 1974, the first African to rise to that level. Nkata Memorial Golf Tournament is an an-nual tournament played to commemorate his contri-bution. Despite being the

birthplace of golf in East Africa, the course remained a simple 9-holes until 2003 when it was upgraded to an 18-holes championship course.

Since then, Entebbe has become active attracting big tournaments like East Africa Golf Challenge and Uganda Amateur Open in

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2009. Many companies including Orange Uganda, MTN Uganda, Gauff Con-sultants, Multiple Industries, Alexander Forbes, Param-bot Breweries, Nile Brew-eries and Bro Group are sponsoring tournaments at Entebbe. Other compa-nies that have partnered in events organizations and rehabilitations are Events Warehouse, Quella Band, Eastern Builders & Engi-neers, Spencon Services and Uganda National Roads Authority.

UNIQUENESSApart from its rare con-

figuration, Entebbe course poses different unique challenges to golfers. One of the notable ones is par-4 Hole No. 17, also known the

Akope Challenge. “Hole No. 17 is the longest par-4 hole on the course with Index1. Approach is very difficult and by the time you get there, you are tired. Even Deo Akope, Uganda’s No. 1 player, has many times failed to get a par on this hole,” explained Alex Rwe-go, Entebbe Golf Club’s captain whose ambition is to upgrade the course to par-72.

Most of Uganda’s pro-fessional golfers like Deo Akope, Godfrey Mande, George Olayo, Dickson Lagoro, Amos Kamya, Ger-ald Ayella, Peter Ssendaula, Vincent Byamukama and Silver Opio were bred at En-tebbe Golf Club. Upcoming golfers like Stephen Odong, Patrick Oyee, Irene Nakale-

mbe and Pauline Nambi are also members of the club.

LEADERSHIPAll would have remained

a wonderful dream if good club leadership was not in place. EGC boasts of rela-tively young professional managers who have a zeal for results.

The management team is comprised of Kiryowa Kiwanuka as chairman, In-nocent Kihika as Secretary, Michael Odur as Treasurer, Alex Rwego as Captain, Edward Kauchu as Vice Captain, Herbert Opolot as Indoor & Outdoor Cap-tain, Jonathan Bakwega as Membership Secretary, Oscar Semawere as Bar Member, Morris Ongwech as Course Member and


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Angelica as House Member. The club also has reputable personalities in the names of Emmanuel Mugamba and Justice J.B. Katutsi on the Board of Trustees.

“In the last three years, we have been able to main-tain the course and mobi-lized resources internally that we are using for the ongoing club house renova-tions,” said Rwego.

Annual membership is Ush1,000,000 for indi-vidual and Ush4,000,000 for corporate membership. Current club membership stands at 140.

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JBG Seniors Classic

Rutta reins at JBG Seniors event

Veteran golfer, Eng. A.R Rutta, was the happiest man

after topping his Group A of 70+ (years) category in

a JBG sponsored Seniors Golf Tournament that was

hosted by Uganda Golf Club on Saturday, May 15th.

Playing off handicap 14, Rutta attained 40 stableford full-

handicap points, seven better than Herbert Nsanze (33) to

take the overall trophy in the Group A category for the

highly respected golfers aged 70 plus. Handicap 22 Joseph

Mulenga finished third with 29 points.

UGC captain, Sam Okello Ocero, hogged some limelight

after dominating the Group B category of 61-69 year-olds

with 38 points. Handicap 19 Okello left the handicap 11 pair

of Elly Tumwine (36) and Gad Gumisiriza (33) in his wake.

Group C of the 55-60 year-olds went to Dr James Sekajugo

who fired 38 points to edge out David Mugambwa by two

points. Handicap 7 Tom Alwala shot 35 points to take the

third place.

Subsidiary:In the subsidiary category, Phillip Kasozi (h/c 2) snatched

the Group A honours with 38 points, Dr Sam Sejjaaka

bagged the Group B trophy with 41 points while Warid

Telecom’s Aziz Usman grabbed the Group C trophies with

40 points.

Peace Muyege (38) and Katy Kabenge (41) reigned in the

ladies Groups A and B subsidiary categories respectively.

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ENTEBBE GOLF COURSE - HISTORIC OvERvIEWHole No. Name Given Explanation

1 Sir Henry Hamilton Pioneer Administrator accredited with the Johnston Wit laying out of the Entebbe Golf Course. 2 Col. L.H.R. Pope- The autocrat who supervised the

Hennesey, D.S.O. initial laying-down of the golf course. 3 The Zoo The hole rubs shoulders with the Zoo. 4 Sir Hesketh Bell Former Club Patron (1905-10) and advocate for not

abandoning Entebbe aas administrative capital. 5 Port Alice Initially first administrator, Sir Gerald Portal had adopted this name (his wife’s) for the new capital. 6 Entebbe-Za-Mugula History tells us that the local chief Mugula used rocks from around his Court in administering his subjects. 7 Joshua Tuhumiwire’s Championed redesigning the golf course to bring it to full

Drawings 18-holes championship size. 8 Sikh Troop Fatigue Col. Pope Hennesey’s Indian Sikh Troops of two companies worked the soils and bushes here like Trojans. Well, charity begins at home and they did work hard, didn’t they? 9 Jean Short Long Shot A lady member of the early years, and Uganda Amateur Ladies Champion who hit long as to at times overdrive the 9th green (the 5th at the time). 10 Centeneray Committee The Club Committee’s collective efforts over the Hole preparation period deserves recognition. 11 Plus 2 M.P. Tennant Club player of the mid-1920s with plus 2 handicap, would at times be eagle putting here. 12 Sir Phillip Mitchell Quarry Sir Philip Eugene Mitchell, Governor and Club Patron and scratch player liked it! And the perennial excavation speaks for itself. 13 Eric Kirby’s Eagle E.K., a visiting Mbale Sports Club player eagled the hole to make history. 14 Ann Wykes Elbow She held the ladies course Champion’s record of gross 75 for long at Entebbe. She’s still living and golfing in Kent, England. 15 Roads’ Hole No hole could be surrounded by more roads! 16 St. John’s Church Pews Just look at the Kirk and then those sand-bunkers. 17 Deo Akope’s Challenge The ace says that this is the hole. He is Entebbe and Uganda’s contemporary golfing star with three successive Uganda Amateur Championship wins for 2000, 2001 and 2002! He is Entebbe Club’s back-marker off 0-handicap. 18 Danny Nkata Designed additional bunkers and tees including the Munyigwawabiri Trail cockpit on hole #14; Nkata is a long time golf archivist in East Africa and an international golf writer.

The infamous Bunker at the 17th Hole


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COURSE GUIDE

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Leisure Lodge Beach & Golf Resort P.O. Box 84383, Mombasa, Kenya Phone: (+254) 40 320 3624 or 320 2620 Fax: (+254) 40 320 2046 Website: www.leisuregolfclub.com E-mail: [email protected] Description: Holes: 18 • Length 6.084 Meter • 6.632 Yards • Par 72

Machakos Golf Club P.O. Box 148, Machakos, Kenya Phone: (+254) 145 21778 Fax: Website: E-mail: Description: Holes: 9

Mombasa Golf Club P.O. 90164, Mombasa, Kenya Phone: (+254) 11 228531 Fax: Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 9 • Front Nine 2.888 • Back Nine 2.949 Yards

Nyali Golf & Country Club P.O. Box 95678, Mombasa, Kenya Phone: (+254) 11 471589 Fax (+254) 11 472632 Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 18 • Length 6.510 Yards • Par 71

Muthaiga Golf Club P.O. Box 41651, Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (+254) 2 762414 Fax (+254) 2 761268 Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 18 • Length 6.893 Yards • Par 71

Windsor Golf & Country Club P.O. Box 45587, Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (+254) 020 862300 Fax: (+254) 020 860160/1 Website: www.windsorgolfresort.com E-mail: [email protected] Description: Holes 18 • Length 7.277 Yards • 5.580 Yards • Par 72

The Golf Park P.O. Box 40373 Nairobi Phone: 020-573994/573923 Fax: 0202573871 Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 9 • Length 6.612 Yards • Par 70

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Royal Nairobi Golf Club P.O. Box 40221, Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (+254) 2 725769 Fax: (+254) 2 712520 Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 18 • Length 7.021 Yards • Par 72

Railway Golf Club P.O. Box 40476, Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (+254) 2 721859 Fax: Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 9 • (18 tees & 10 greens) Length 7.021 Yards • Par 72

Karen Country Club P.O. Box 24817, Nairobi, Kenya Phone: (+254)-2-882801 / Professional: (+254)-2-884089 Fax: +254 20 884088 Website: www.karencountryclub.com E-mail: Description: Holes 18 • Length 6.951 Yards • Par 70

Entebbe Golf Club P.O. Box 107, Entebbe, Uganda Phone: (+256) 414 322067 Fax: Website: www.entebbegolfclub.com E-mail: [email protected] Description: Holes 18, Par 71

Jinja Golf Club P.O. Box 678, Jinja, Uganda Phone: (+256) 43 20169 Fax: Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 9 • Length 5.926 Yards • Par 72

Uganda Golf Club P.O. Box Phone: (+256) 414 236848, or (+256) 414 233911 Fax: Website: E-mail: Description: Holes 18 • Length 6.112 Yards • Par 72

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