Tooro Club celebrates Mayombo on 2019 Uganda Open Golf Tour
Home Boy. Cwinyaai will want to give Tooro an advantage today. PHOTO BY EDDIE CHICCO
What you need to know:
Golf. According to Uganda Tourism Board, golfers will do The Top of the World Hike near Kibaale Forest, visit the Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves as well as Semuliki National Park and Sempaya hot springs this weekend.
KAMPALA. Sparking life into the upcountry courses was listed as Uganda Golf Union’s (UGU) key priorities when the 2019 Uganda Open Golf Tour began this year.
The Tour started at the Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort in Kigo on March 30 before heading to Mbale Golf Club a week later.
In Mbale, UGU offered cash and motivational support for the club to revamp its structures, course and membership as it were nearly three decades ago.
The Tour resumes again outside Kampala and it heads west to the Tooro Golf Club in Fort Portal today.
The weekend which is packaged with tourism organised by Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) will pitch with a round of action at the nine-hole course sponsored by Castle Lite.
It is a big moment for Tooro. “The course should ready and we have gotten our hotel partner Njara Suites,” Tooro Club captain Andrew Biryabalema told SCORE early this week.
Tooro will use this Tour leg to celebrate the late son of their soil Brig. Nobel Mayombo who passed away on May 1, 2007.
The club has celebrated the deceased legislator who belonged to Tooro Kingdom’s Babiito Royal Clan since 2008.
“A year after the late Brigadier died, we have had an event in his memory every year.
“It is normally during the beginning of May but since the Tour came around late April, we decided to celebrate him on this day,” explained Biryabalema.
The handicap 12 player now expects a field of about 110 players with 40 from Tooro itself.
Home advantage
The home grown boys include Denis Asaba, Joseph Cwinyaai, Isaiah Mwesige, Emmanuel Jakisa and Lillian Koowe who emerged as overall female winner at Kigo.
“We intend to use medal play format just like Kigo and Mbale did but we are trying to negotiate with UGU to see if we can do stableford. This is because some players from Kabale did not get the link to register and we wouldn’t want to stress the course,” added Biryabalema.
Uganda Golf Club leads West Nile by five points in the overall UGT standings.
According to UTB, golfers will do The Top of the World Hike near Kibaale Forest, visit the Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves as well as Semuliki National Park and Sempaya hot springs this weekend.
