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Financial burden for Kasozi ahead of PGA European Tour Allan Darren Kyeyune Phillip Kasozi is a happy man after earning a place at the PGA European Tour’s Magical Kenya Open which comes March 18-21 at the Karen Country Club in Nairobi. The Uganda Golf Club pro will be in the fray for the $1.3m (Shs4.7b) kitty for a second time after taking the last and third available place for non-foreigners via the 2020-2021 Safari Tour Series. By making the cut to finish 19th at the Karen Masters on Wednesday, Kasozi had scored a vital 19 points to finish with a collated 105.8 Tour points. “It was too tough. The final field had over 80 players from all over and you had to be in top 20 to make it since it had more points,” he told this paper this week. The Safari Tour final points’ tally had 30 percent contribution from the combined total scored in the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons while the nine events of the 2020-2021 took up 70 percent. “It’s never easy, s
Following on from the recent successes of Mallow golfer James Sugrue, Banteer man Paul Buckley has become the latest north Cork man to make his mark on the international golfing scene.
This after Buckley became the latest Irishman to triumph in the UAE, with a one-stroke victory in the Omega Emirates Men s Amateur Open at the Emirates Golf Club - the same venue at which Rory McIlroy won his first professional title back in 2009.
Having worked with renowned putting coach James Janowski prior to the tour, Buckley put the experience to good use, with just 28 putts in his opening three-under par round of 69, before finishing out the tournament with a closing 73 and a final total of -2.
up. if he patches it up with jeff flake, that really will be remarkable. i remember some of the things that lindsey graham and he were saying about each other, particularly when then candidate donald trump tweeted out lindsey graham s cell phone number, and i didn t think that they would get it back together. they played golf together and enjoy each other s company. here s a little thing i ll let you in on. bob corker is an excellent golfer. he plays a lot at a club just outside of chattanooga called the honors course, which is where they played the amateur open there a number of times. if trump and corker can bond on golf, then shep, lordy be, they may be able to bury the hatchet. shepard: that would be quite a thing coming to nashville. bob corker, favorite son around there. nice to see them appearing to get along. the one thing that i left out from the press gaggle, john, the