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Naivasha, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & UGU MEDIA | In the position they are in, Team Uganda will only have themselves to blame if they let the 7th edition of the Victoria Cup escape their hands in the final round today.
Standing at 10.5 points, the Ugandans driven by the grit of captain Joseph Cwinya-ai, will be looking for two and half points this afternoon to secure only their 2nd ever victory in the Victoria Cup. Cwinya-ai led the team at their last triumph in 2019.
” We are glad to be in this position and we thank God for this lead,” team coach, UPDF Sergeant Flavia Namakula, said yesterday.
“The team is good. Spirits are high and very positive. We just need to trust the process.”
After a false start in Round one where they were beaten 3-1 by the hosts on Thursday, the quality of Namakula’s team came to the surface in the following rounds as they built a massive 5 point lead. The victories in round 2, 3 and draw in the 4th, indicate the Ugandan visitors have what it takes to be crowned champions Saturday evening — when the battle in 10 singles games concludes.
Asked if he has the players to seal victory Saturday, team captain Cwinya-ai confidently said: “Yes I have the player’s who can win me the Victoria Cup. We just need 4 wins out of the 10 games and we will be home and dry.”
Cwinya-ai travelled to Naivasha with a team that boasts of four teenage prodigies. The performance of 19-year-old Joseph Reagan Akena and his 15-year-old buddy Peter Mayende over the last two days, has particularly been outstanding,
They are the only pair that won their Foursomes on both days at the new Mt Kapipiri golf course. They picked Uganda’s only point in round one after stunning Kenyan captain John Lejirma and Elly Barno 7-6, and were on hand as the visitors raced to a 4-0 Foursomes whitewash of the hosts in round three, Friday morning.
Akena has emerged as a force to reckon with. The softspoken Lugazi-born kid enjoyed various highs in the past year, the pick of which was winning the Uganda Golf Open Championship for the first time in history at only 18 years.
In many observers’ eyes, Akena represents the new breed of golfers around whom the national team of the future will be built. Akena has a composed long game, but is perhaps deadliest when scrambling.
His partner, the young Mayende, is one of the most promising golfers from the famed Lugazi Hills Golf & Country conveyor belt that has produced back-to-back Uganda Golf Open champions.
Players play in pre-determined pairs and each play their own golf ball. This is in direct contrast to the foursomes, whereby a pair of players play with just one golf ball.
The individual with the lowest score in each pair, on each hole, provides the team’s score for that particular hole, hence the name ‘better-ball’.
🟦 TEAM UGANDA
*⃣ JOSEPH CWINYA-AI (CAPTAIN)
AGE: 27 years
HANDICAP INDEX: -0.8
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 310
*⃣ JOSEPH REAGAN AKENA
AGE: 19 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 0.3
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 298
*⃣ PETER MAYENDE
AGE: 15 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 4.3
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: N/A
*⃣ ELTON THEMBO
AGE: 21 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 1.5
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 1413
*⃣ IBRAHIM SSEMAKULA
AGE: 18 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 1.9
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 4294
*⃣ TITUS OKWONG
AGE: 30 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 1.2
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 615
*⃣ JOHN MUSIIMENTA
AGE: 20 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 2.1
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 4898
*⃣ ANTHONY OTUKEI
AGE: 16 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 1.8
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 4898
*⃣ ABDUL KAKEETO
AGE: 23 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 0.4
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 1829
*⃣ ABDALLAH KAKOOZA
AGE: 26 years
HANDICAP INDEX: 2.7
WORLD AMATEUR GOLF RANKING: 3910
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