Sunday 7 October 2018

Kampala golfers dominate Serena Johnnie Walker Golf Open


Jadu Patel was the overall winner. 📷 @lcmuha  

Top prizes

 Overall winner
Jadu Patel hc 14 - 43

 Group A men (hc 0-9) 
Michael Tumusime hc 14 - 40
Frank Ochieng  hc 36
Davis cash hc2 36

 Group B men (hc 10-18) 
Jadu Patel hc 14 - 43
Lim Lim hc 12 42
Phillip Ochola hc 15 41

 Group C men (hc 19-28) 
Alfred Kabuchu hc 22 - 37
General Ger  hc 19  36
Peter West hc 28 34

 Group A Ladies (hc 0-18)
Gloria Mbagua hc 07 31
Eva Magala hc 4 30

 Group B Ladies (hc 19-36)
Annete Kiconco hc 19 30
Grace Kabonero hc 21  27
Eva Akaduha hc 34 26
Jack Kamunyu hc19 26

 Professional category results
▶️ Leader-board top 4- 
Kasozi   🇺🇬 75 | 77 | 70 *222 
Wanzala 🇺🇬 72 | 76 | 77 *225 
Mutawe 🇺🇬 75 | 77 | 73  *225
J.Seale  🇿🇦 75| 81 | 71 *227
Kigo, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Handicap 14 golfer Jadu Patel beat a strong field to win the Inaugural Lake Victoria Serena Johnnie Walker Open 2018 with a score of 43 stableford points on Saturday.

 Uganda Golf Club (UGC) Kampala golfers dominated the top prizes as 220 golfers battled at the picturesque Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa course. Chief guest at the prize giving was Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda.

 Jadu was on familiar territory as he also holds membership at Serena Club, and has participated in nearly all warm-up tournaments at the new course. He has in the past two years come second best at the captain's and club members tournaments.

The one-day 18-hole contest was the climax of the Serena Johnnie Walker Golf Open after four days of golf that started with a professionals 54-hole-contest. Phillip Kasozi came from four strokes behind favourite Fred Wanzala to win the professional category on Friday. (full story)

Serena's tournament partners are Johnnie Walker, Barclays, DSTV, PEPSI, AfriSafe, Victoria Motors.

Tournament focus now turns to the Pepsi Independence Open at the nine-hole Palm Valley country and golf club course, located in the tranquil Akright Kakungulu Housing Estate, off Kampala – Entebbe Highway.

It starts with a professional contest today and tomorrow, before the main contest on Independence Day.
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 A history of Serena Golf Resort & Spa

Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa, located to the south of Kampala in Uganda, just recently completed a second nine holes on its golf course designed by Kevin Ramsey of Golfplan, reports golfcoursearchitecture.net.

The resort began working with Golfplan in 2008, with construction of the first nine holes beginning at the end of 2009. Work on the second nine began in 2016 and will officially be opened at this inaugural Serena Johnnie Walker Golf Open Championship.

“The holes that were completed in the first phase were a mix of front and back nine holes,” said Ramsey in an interview with golfcoursearchitecture.net

The 18th hole at the par 72 Kigo golf course.


He told golfcoursearchitecture.net that “There is no difference in style, we are just pushing on to the far end of the site. The key feature of the entire site is the proximity and view to Lake Victoria. Visible on all holes and in play on three including both finishing holes."

Ramsey, who was one of several guests at the launch on Saturday, says the course is a unique gem.

“This is a very unique one-of-a-kind golf facility in the sense that access to the marina is between the ninth and eighteenth holes. I can’t think of anywhere in the world where I have seen anything like this. The course is very natural in its feel and meanders through the site and down to the papyrus groves on the lake."

According to golfcoursearchitecture.net , the resort is owned and has been developed by Kenyan-based contracting company Cementers, and of its CEO, Kartick Halai.

“The Lake Victoria Serena golf course is one of the most beautiful courses in the region, we could not be prouder to have it on our property and simply cannot wait to be positioned as the best golf and spa resort in Africa,” Anthony Chege, general manager of Serena Hotels Uganda, told golfcoursearchitecture.net

“There really is nothing like it. Serene and peaceful,” concluded Ramsey.

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