By SHAMAOMA MUSONDA –
THE Zambia Junior Golf Association (ZJGA) is scouting for up to K55, 000 to get custom-fit golf clubs for the two golfers on scholarship at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
The two are exciting Timothy Sondashi and Mukuka Mwango, who are probably the only students at the University of Pretoria (Tuks) without custom-fit kit.
ZJGA director Aloysius Phiri said yesterday that the two are having class and practical works at the university but that, their golf clubs are not tailor-made and that was affecting the scores on the course.
“In our quest to improve the scores of Timothy and Mukuka who are at the Tuks University, we are working at having to custom-fit them. Right now, we have written to several companies to assist us raise the R58, 000 required to custom fit them,” he said.
Phiri called on the corporate world to assist the two players who he said held an important chapter in the development of Zambian golf.
He added that the ZJGA had contacted a top South African tailor-made company that gave a quotation of R58, 000 for the two and expressed hope that the corporate world will respond favourably.
Phiri said at the end of the two’s four-year course, they will become Zambia’s first ever golf experts and will be used to train all golfers in the country with the latest trends in the game.
“It’s been very expensive to bring in these experts from South Africa and it has been hitting the finances of the association very badly. So we are hoping that these two will make it easier for us once they graduate,” he said.
Sondashi has been the  most outstanding of the two players at the university and has been one of the top performers though Mwango does stand too far away.
During a tournament played at the weekend at the Vitange Park Golf course, Sondashi finished in joint fourth place with one round score of 74 while, Mwango finished in a disappointing 15th after scoring 86.
Sondashi’s 74 score was six shots off runaway winners Otto van Buynder, who took the title with a three-shot lead over Quintin Wilsnach while Andrew Plint and Louis Albertse were on 72.