Rwanda ladies’ golf team will be among the 23 teams battling for top honors at this year’s All-Africa Challenge Trophy (AACT) set to run from June 10-12 at Muthaiga Golf and Country Club in Nairobi.

The four-member team leaves the country today, three days before the start of Africa’s biggest women golf competition.

The team includes; Jenny Linda, Sheetal Philip and Lynda Mugeni with Lady captain Claire Kayitesi as the team manager.

"We trust the ladies to go there and do a decent job against the best lady golfers from across African, we don’t expect them to win the trophy but this is a good learning experience for them,” Rwanda Golf Union boss Andrew Nkwandi said yesterday in a press conference yesterday the Kigali Golf Club.

The Challenge Trophy tournament will pave the way for the Kenyan Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Kenya Ladies Open scheduled for June 15-16, which will be sponsored by the Royal Ancient & Golf Club of Scotland which is amateur golf's world governing body.

This will be Rwanda’s second appearance since making their debut when the bi-annual event was held in Gaborone, Botswana in 2012 where the team finished 18th out of 22 African countries.

South Africa, who are the defending champions, have dominated the event since its inception 22 years ago. Only Egypt, in 2006 in Lusaka, Zambia, is the other country to win the trophy.