eBusiness Weekly
Chipo Sabeta
Zimbabwe professional golfer and national team coach Simon Murungweni, believes the three-member national junior team selected by the Zimbabwe Junior Golf Association (ZJGA), will leave a mark at the at 2018 World Amateur Team Championships (WATC) in Ireland later this month.
The championships will be hosted by the Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI) and the Irish Ladies Golf Union (ILGU) at Carton House, in Maynooth, near Dublin from 29 August to 8 September, 2018.
The country will be represented by top amateur and junior captain David Amm, who has also been in dominant form on the local circuit.
The other players in the star-studded Zimbabwe line-up include Jack Allard & Stuart Krog who participated at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Nagoya, Japan for the past three years.
Amm took part in the All-Africa Junior Championships in Morocco in March before competing in FBC Region V Golf tourney.
The trio will be accompanied by Coach Murungweni and ZGA president Mr Mufaro Chivonivoni.
Murungweni is pinning hopes on the boys’ international exposure to conquer Ireland.
“I am glad that it’s a great team with international exposure at this level. They are experienced enough to play in foreign courses.
Amm is representing the country for the second time at the world event. The World Amateur Golf Team Championships is a biannual event previously hosted by Mexico.
In Mexico Zimbabwe team had David Amm, Kieren Vincent and Ben Folleth-Smith.
“We will be traveling with Jack and Krog who played well at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Nagoya, Japan.
It’s a very experienced duo having played in Japan three times. Ireland is a country with great golfing tradition and experience in hosting major golf events. I know they will leave a mark,” Murungweni said.
The WATC are conducted by the International Golf Federation (formerly the World Amateur Golf Council), which comprises the national governing bodies of golf in more than 125 countries, the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition rotated among three geographic zones of the world: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African.
Only IGF National Members may enter one women’s team and one men’s team. Players must be amateur golfers under the Rules of Amateur Status of the R&A and the United States Golf Association and a National of the country which the competitor is representing as defined in the IGF’s Nationality Policy.
Murungweni also explained about the team and playing format.
“Each team will be having two or three players and plays 18-holes of stroke play for four days. The final team scores will be a total of the best two stroke play scores from the three players each round.
The four-day (72-hole) total is the team’s score for the championship,” he said.
