A steady handicap drop for James Anzabwa presented him with the overall title during the grand finale of Mulembe golf day at Kakamega Golf Club, over the weekend.
Anzabwa, playing off handicap 18.3, shot a round total of 35 stableford points to claim the top honours in the day-long event that saw a huge field of 121 golfers compete at the nine-hole course.
Mulembe Golf day is the climax of a tournament organised by Mulembe Golfing Society. They held a similar event at the par 73 Kitale Golf Club last year.
The tournament was presented by Tuskys, Dlite Limited, Khetias Supermarket, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.
Others were; Centsavvy Credit, members of Mulembe Golfing Society and Kakamega Sports Club.
Anzabwa had a great first nine outing on the course despite setting out on the wrong note with a bogey on his opener, a par 5.
He bounced back with his days’ lone birdie on the second a par 4, unfortunately his tee-shot went wild off the deck on the third into the woods from where he was well out and managed a bogey.
He picked successive pars on the fourth, fifth and sixth holes, scratching on the seventh, bogeyed the eighth, a par-3, which plays 196 yards off the white tee and closed his outward nine with a deserving par on the par-4 ninth.
The going got tough for Anzabwa as he double-bogeyed the par-5 10th, bogeyed the 11th and 12th and double-bogeying the 13th too.
Anzabwa briefly redeemed himself with a par on the 14th hole but this was short-lived as he faltered on the 15th to register a double-bogey.
Things got worse on the 16th where he carded his second No-return for the day as he closed the back nine with two more bogeys on the 17th and 18th.
Meanwhile, a "stoked" Adam Scott won his first tournament in almost four years, keeping his cool on the back nine of the European Tour co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship to clinch a two-shot victory.
The Australian world number 18 had posted more than 20 top-10 finishes since his last success at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in March 2016 and, in front of his home crowd at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, sank a birdie on the 14th and an eagle at the next to hold off New Zealander Michael Hendry.
It was Scott's second Australian PGA title after romping to victory in 2013 ahead of American Rickie Fowler, and partly made amends for his bitter disappointment at being on the losing team at last week's Presidents Cup.
"After a good save on 12 it was time to do something, I was behind," said Scott after a three-under par 69 gave him a 13-under winning total of 275.
"There were opportunities for everyone and I was the one who took them today.
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