Snow leads Kenyan charge at Mena tour

Four Kenyan professionals are among a field of over 100 players drawn for the fifth leg of this year’s Mena Tour at the Saadiyat Beach and Golf Club course in Abu Dhabi.

Three of them Greg Snow, Abdul Sihag and Hardeep Thethy were in Dubai for the Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open where none of them managed to make the second round cut.

Sihag - who is drawn at 12.30pm in Wednesday's’s first round in Abu Dhabi - shot rounds of 75 and 77 to miss by two shots while Greg Snow carded 75 in the first round and a poor 81. Thethy was further down on 158.

During the third leg at the Dubai Creek Open, Snow and Sihag finished in the money list. “The conditions were tough last week but we will see how it goes in Abu Dhabi," said Snow who last year made the top 10 in the Mena Tour Order of Merit.

He is drawn at 8am behind Sihag from Vipingo Ridge - who will be off at 7.15am. They were joined in Abu Dhabi by Ganeev Giddie, a regular in the Mena Tour which usually attracts players from Europe, Middle East and Africa.

SUK WINS

During last week’s Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open at the tough playing Al Badia Golf Club, Cyril Suk from the Czech Republic shot nine under par 207 to win ahead of England’s Luke Joy on seven under par 209.

Back home, the remaining pros are taking a break this weekend following last weekend’s KCB Golf Tour grand finale where Vet Lab’s Brian Njoroge beat Riz Charania of Windsor in a sudden death play off to retain the KCB Golf Tour Grand Finale title at Nyali Golf and Country Club Mombasa.

Next weekend, the pros will move to Royal Nairobi Golf Club for the last leg in the Nation Media Golf Circuit. At stake at Royal will be Sh200,000.

This Friday some of the pros will also be at Royal for the Sunset Golfing Society event.