Golf Veteran Retires

Marudu started playing golf in 1976 in South Africa. He was part of the first Botswana national team that played in the Zone VI tournament held in Gaborone in 1982. He has been in the national team since then. He said a friend first introduced him to golf when he was staying in Zimbabwe.

The Senyawe-born player started as a carrier for white golfers. He said his interest in the game grew in the late 1970s after he had moved to South Africa where he started playing serious golf. He recalls that in those days, the Zimbabwean national team was untouchable but he was the only Motswana who managed to beat a Zimbabwean player.