This year's edition of the NCBA Gold Series held in Nanyuki saw the impressive performance of seasoned John Mathai which ultimately bagged him the win. Mathai carded an excellent round of 38 points on Saturday 17th July to emerge as the overall winner of the Nanyuki Sports Club’s leg. His top class golfing abilities saw him edging out fellow club mate, Peter Rimui, who carded a round of 36 to clinch top honours in the men’s category, ahead of Cyprian Bundi, who finished the day with 35 points to claim runner’s-up spot in the category.
The Ladies side was also no different as a masterpiece show saw Dr. Samantha Mathu took the win with a round of 24 points. The runners up went to Lucy Njuguna who finished the round with 21 points. The Nanyuki Sports Club leg, the eighth in the NCBA Golf Series, was the second event of a doubleheader weekend in the calendar, which featured a Club Nite at the Nyeri Golf Club on Friday, July 16, 2021, that was sponsored by NCBA Group.
At the Nyeri event, handicap nine home player, Felix Kibicho, was the 18-hole winner on countback, having carded a round of 35 points ahead of handicap 19, Charles Wanjau, who posted a round of 35 to claim the runner-up spot. Meanwhile, Dr. Richard Kabugi was crowned the nine-hole winner on countback, having carded 18 Stableford points ahead of Dr. Ephantus Mate, who finished the day runner-up in the category with 18 points. Speaking on the side-lines of the Nanyuki leg of the series, NCBA Group Managing Director, John Gachora, said, “Selecting Nanyuki to be part of this series was driven by two things: one is that we have many customers here, and part of what we do through the NCBA Golf Series is to spend time with our customers, so Nanyuki becomes that important for us."
As part of the activities, NCBA donated indigenous tree seedlings and took part in a tree-planting exercise at the Nanyuki Sports Club as part of the Bank’s ‘Change the Story’ initiative – a one million indigenous tree nursery endeavour undertaken in partnership with other like minded partners.