Bagalana confident of fine start at Safari

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“That experience taught me how to deal with hard times and now, I can face anything,” said the man who turned pro in 2018. Bagalana had planned to travel fly out on Friday but his Covid-19 test results delayed him, meaning that he will play a blind course.

Abbey Bagalana is cheerful lad yet a man often who speaks less yet calmly. So when he says his game is on, surely it is. He will be the only Ugandan professional who feature at the first event of the much-changed Safari Tour Series at Limuru Country Club in Kenya today.

“Right now, I am at my peak,” Bagalana described his current game status before he flew out yesterday morning aboard Uganda Airlines. Bagalana is motivated by a failure from last season’s Series’ leg at Lake Victoria Serena course in Kigo in November. He was tied 15th and among the five Ugandans who had made the cut after Day Two but got disqualified on Day Three for not submitting that he used two balls to play Hole No.4. “I played two balls on Hole No.4 and then I was supposed to declare. But the course was not easy and it was my fault that I forgot to inform the necessary parties. It had been a tiresome day.”

“That experience taught me how to deal with hard times and now, I can face anything,” said the man who turned pro in 2018. Bagalana had planned to travel fly out on Friday but his Covid-19 test results delayed him, meaning that he will play a blind course.