{"id":3212,"date":"2018-10-29T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:47:03","slug":"okolea-delivers-exciting-golf-experience-at-ruiru-sports-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/okolea-delivers-exciting-golf-experience-at-ruiru-sports-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Okolea delivers exciting golf experience at Ruiru Sports Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">It was another exciting day at Ruiru Sports Club when Okolea International sponsored a Tournament which was well attended by 114 players comprising of RSC members and visitors.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Mr. Gathara Gideon playing off handicap 27 emerged the overall winner after scoring 44 points.\u00a0 Yours Truly (The Club Captain) Mr. Mwaura Peter playing off handicap 15 and recording a score of 43 points was overall runner-up and Mr. Wambugu Sammy playing off handicap 19 and scoring of 42 points followed in third place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The Ladies winner was Mwangi\u00a0 Catherine who played off handicap 20 and eventually scored 36 points, the guest winner went to Ndirangu Jane of Railway Golf Club playing handicap 20 and posted 34 points. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Longest drive in the Men category was won by Fr. Kimani Peter playing handicap 14 and Wainaina Teresia playing handicap 17 took the ladies category. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Mr. Omondi Ben playing handicap 3 won the Nearest to the Pin and Ndirangu Jane took the Ladies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Brigadier Mohammed playing handicap 24 won the first nine scoring 24 points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Speaking during the presentation of prizes the Okolea Boss, Peter said he would make the Tournament an annual event to promote golf in Kenya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Meanwhile, from the start of first week of November till December, the club is embarking on a project that is geared towards encouraging more juniors to play golf. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The club will therefore have golf clinics where the juniors will be coached by the club Pro Mr. Karanja. Children from the age of 7years are encouraged to join.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0in; border: 1pt windowtext; color: #222222; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Submitted by Peter Martins Munyuah<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 20.4pt; vertical-align: baseline; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-stretch: 100%; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; word-spacing: 0px; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0in; border: 1pt windowtext; color: #222222; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">TheGolfer Online Correspondent in Kenya <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another exciting day at Ruiru Sports Club when Okolea International sponsored a Tournament which was well attended by 114 players comprising of RSC members and visitors.\u00a0 Mr. Gathara Gideon playing off handicap 27 emerged the overall winner after scoring 44 points.\u00a0 Yours Truly (The Club Captain) Mr. Mwaura Peter playing off handicap 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,5,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles-from-golfers","8":"category-asian-golf","9":"category-competitions","10":"category-european-golf","11":"category-featured"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/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=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}