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David GOMBE
KCB Financial institution Uganda has as we speak launched the second version of the KCB East Africa Golf Event, scheduled to tee off on twenty seventh June 2026 on the Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa.
Organized in partnership with ICEA LION Insurance coverage, Kenya Airways, CFAO, and Ruby Hospital, the event goals to ship a premier regional {golfing} expertise.
This 12 months’s occasion underneath the theme “Roar on the Inexperienced” will draw over 180 gamers from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The event is open to golfers of all ages who maintain a legitimate handicap and are registered with a CDH ID. Contributors will compete in four-ball groups, the place the very best rating on every gap counts towards the group whole, mixing particular person ability with collaborative group play. The competitors will make the most of the Stableford format, a points-based system that rewards constant and strategic play. Aside from the caddy charges, participation within the competitors is free and the eligible contributors won’t be required to buy any merchandise or give cash to take part on this competitors.
The company companions play an important function in executing the event and elevating the golfer’s expertise. Because the Official Insurance coverage Companion, ICEA LION Insurance coverage will showcase its Clubman’s Insurance coverage, a specialised cowl designed for golfers.
The coverage offers safety of as much as UGX 4 million towards loss or injury to {golfing} tools and private results whereas enjoying, practising, or in transit, in addition to protection for third-party property injury incurred throughout play. Whereas Kenya Airways serves because the Official Airline Companion and can award the profitable four-ball group with air tickets, CFAO is presenting an unique Gap-in-One Expertise Automobile, a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Collection and Ruby Hospital joins as a wellness associate.
Talking in the course of the launch, Noela Byuma, Head of Advertising and Communications at KCB Financial institution Uganda, highlighted, “The ‘Roar on the Inexperienced’ theme displays the arrogance and willpower required to succeed each on the course and in enterprise. The KCB East Africa Golf Tour offers a novel platform for constructing relationships, fostering significant connections and bringing collectively individuals from various backgrounds. We’re not solely selling sport and group, but in addition deliberately investing in a greener and extra sustainable future for generations to come back, by way of our tree planting initiatives. This event embodies the values of excellence, sustainability and shared prosperity.”
Event Coordinator, Paul Kaheru, famous that the occasion establishes a premier stage for regional pleasure and endurance, whereas Golf Director Theodor Van Rooyen emphasised that the competitors brings out the best parts of precision and teamwork as Uganda’s prime qualifiers put together for the grand finale in Nairobi.
Constructing on its inaugural success, the event returns with a powerful legacy of aggressive excellence and group impression. Ultimately 12 months’s occasion, group “On the Cash”, that includes Gloria Nanyonga, Dipak Patel, Nic Snyman, and Mathew Nviiri secured the general group title with a stellar 111 Stableford factors, whereas Enoch Nuwagaba (39 factors) and Florence Namara (32 factors) topped the lads’s and girls’ particular person divisions.
This dedication to social and environmental accountability stays central to the event’s id. Alongside the sporting motion, KCB Financial institution Uganda is advancing its Go Inexperienced Marketing campaign.
Following the earlier planting of 300 timber at Serena Kigo, the financial institution is actively working towards its broader environmental goal of planting 15,000 timber nationwide to advertise regional conservation.
The event motion on twenty seventh June will conclude on the nineteenth Gap, which is about to host a chic All-White Get together for golfers, companions, and visitors. To enter the competitors, golfers can be required to register by way of an internet portal which shall be offered by Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort & Spa