P100,000 reserved for hole in one

Orapa will host the inaugural edition of the annual international Orapa Diamond Golf Challenge at the Orapa Golf Course next week. The tournament is sponsored to the tune of P900,000 with over 100 professional and amateur golfers expected to battle it out. The golfers will do two rounds on the nine-hole golf course. A hole in one award stands at P100,000. Winners for both male and female categories will also be rewarded with double air tickets to either Windhoek or Durban from Gaborone.

The tournament will be in a stroke-play and a championship division format for professionals and other divisions will play a stable-ford format. Registration fee is P400 and the tournament is open to the public. Event coordinator, Tebatso Hule confirmed entries of golf professionals from neighbouring countries. “I am not in a position to mention names of individual golfers that have registered, but I can confirm we have entries from South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe,” he said.