Residence skilled Mutahi Kibugu Tuesday grabbed a one shot lead going into Wednesday’s last spherical of the fifth leg of 2023/24 Safari Tour at par 71 Muthaiga Golf Membership course.
Kibugu, who was the one Kenyan participant to make reduce within the 2023 Magical Kenya Open at Muthaiga, picked up a birdie on the fourth and parred the remaining. He nonetheless dropped his first shot of the day on the par five-Tenth the place he drove straight to the appropriate spherical, hit a foul second shot, then missed a par narrowly.
He then overshot the inexperienced to the bunker on the twelfth to select up his second bogey of the day. Nonetheless, he made good the remaining six holes the place he birdied the fifteenth, parred the sixteenth then made two successive birdies on the seventeenth and 18th for the day’s two below par 69, and a 3 rounds whole of 4 below par 209.
“The course typically has been ready nicely clearly due to the forthcoming Magical Kenya Open, however the tough is dangerous information! All you want is to exit of the green and you might be finished,’’ stated Kibugu.
For the ultimate spherical on Wednesday, Kibugu stated he was all set to battle it out with the opposite main gamers.
“I’ve been on this place earlier than, so it doesn’t actual trouble me teeing off because the chief within the last spherical,’’ added Kibugu who’s more likely to be within the flight of Namibia’s Paulino Kasoma and Justus Madoya or with Golf Park’s Erick Ooko all of who closed the day on three below par 210.
Kasoma eagled the final gap (18th) having birdied the fifteenth along with two extra birdies from the entrance 9, for 3 below par 68. The Nice Rift Valley Golf Resort’s Madoya made six birdies, three in every 9, however solely managed two below par 69, curtesy of three bogeys on the opening 9 and one on the 14th.
Alternatively, Ooko dropped just one shot on the eighth, however managed to sink solely three birdies for the day.
All these must be careful for the group behind them led by “Mzee wa Kazi’’ Dismas Indiza who made an excellent eagle on the 18th to cancel two bogeys on the 14th and sixteenth to steer a bunch of three, together with one other Muthaiga participant Greg Snow and Railway’s Samuel Njoroge on two below par 211.
Due to the Muthaiga club-nite, the ultimate spherical of the Safari Tour will get underway from 7.30am with the main group set to tee off at 8.30am.
The winner of the occasion being sponsored by ABSA, will take dwelling Sh150,000 plus some factors in the direction of the “Highway to Magical Kenya Open’’ set for a similar venue from February 22 to 25.
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Mutahi Kibugu 68, 72, 69= 209
Paulino Kasoma(Nam) 70, 72, 68= 210
Justus Madoya 68, 73, 69= 210
Erick Ooko 68, 73, 69= 210
Dismas Indiza 72, 70, 69= 211
Samuel Njoroge 70, 70, 71= 211
Greg Snow 68, 74, 69= 211.
