{"id":2415,"date":"2018-07-30T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:35:54","slug":"team-kenya-dominates-against-uganda-in-victoria-cup-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/team-kenya-dominates-against-uganda-in-victoria-cup-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM KENYA DOMINATES UGANDA IN VICTORIA CUP TOURNAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Team Kenya over the weekend beat Uganda for the third time in a row.\u00a0 Kenya who are the defending championships of the Victoria cup beat Uganda once again at Vetlab Sports Club the par 72 course in Nairobi over the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">On the final round singles, the locals won 6-4 against Uganda for a total of 19.5 while Uganda finished with six and half (6.5) points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The home team claimed a hat-trick by beating Uganda with a big margin of 13 points.\u00a0 On the last day, Saturday, Kenya lost the first game after Isaac Makokha got a 5-4 blow by Uganda\u2019s David Kamulindwa. Zubair Khan was beaten by Martin Ochaya 6-5 and Mutahi Kibugu halved with Joseph Chinyaai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Kenyan youngster Agil Is-Haq, gave Kenya their first point of the final day singles when he beat Herman Mutebi 1-0 with Limuru\u2019s John Karichu beating Uganda\u2019s Rodel Gaita 2-0 and Mike Kisia winning 3-2 against Richard Baguma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The Victoria Cup was donated to the Kenya Golf Union by retired marathoner Moses Tanui and is contested by Kenya and Uganda on a rotational basis. Kenya won the inaugural edition in 2016 at the Muthaiga Golf Club and retained it in 2017 at Uganda\u2019s Entebbe Golf Club. The fourth edition of the competition will be held in Uganda next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Submitted by Peter Martins Munyuah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">TheGolfer Online correspondent in Kenya<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Kenya over the weekend beat Uganda for the third time in a row.\u00a0 Kenya who are the defending championships of the Victoria cup beat Uganda once again at Vetlab Sports Club the par 72 course in Nairobi over the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0On the final round singles, the locals won 6-4 against Uganda for a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles-from-golfers","8":"category-european-golf","9":"category-featured","10":"category-golf-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}