As part of Kigali Golf Club’s long-term goal to develop the game of golf in Rwanda, the club has organised a junior golfers’ tournament at Nyarutarama golf course this afternoon. According to the club captain Rajan Tiwari, the tournament’s tee-off is at 2 pm and will run concurrently with a social event open to all the club’s senior golfers. The juniors’ competition has three categories; 4-8, 8-12 and a special group from Green Hills Academy, one of the few schools in Kigali with a relatively big golf following. All the three categories will contest between hole 5-9 and will use stroke play as the mode of play. Mr and Mrs Raval together with Jack Kayonga have bankrolled the juniors’ event ahead of Betsy King’s arrival on October 12.The legendary American female golfer Betsy King is expected to stage a massive golf clinic for both junior and senior amateur golfers next Sunday at Kigali Golf Club. King, a former US Open champion and the leading money winner on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour in 1984, 1989 and 1993, will be accompanied with three other ex-professional lady golfers Katherine Hull, Wendy Posillico and Renee Powell one of America’s recognized professional golf teachers. According Kigali Golf Club officials, the LPGA golfers will set foot in Rwanda October 12 for a charity tour and will conduct clinics to around 40 Rwandan junior golfers and thereafter meet with the first lady Jeannette Kagame. Ends
