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Takudzwa Chitsiga
Sports Reporter
IN-FORM Zimbabwean professional golfer Scott Vincent moved to the top 50 of the LIV Golf Series standings after his 12th place finish in Chicago last weekend.
Vincent will take a short break before he returns to the course at Stonehill Golf Course just north of Bangkok, Thailand, from October 7-9. Vincent is now on seven points after he gained five points from his previous outing where he managed to bag five points.
After accumulating a point each in the London and Boston tournaments, the 30-year-old is now on position 37 and is expected to take part in the remaining of the seven tournaments of the new series.
Vincent’s 12th place finish in Chicago, which earned him a cool US$332 500, was his best on LIV Golf Series, bettering his tied 20th effort in the inaugural event in London.
Returning to the tour, the Zimbabwean will be part of the field that is located on 340-acres in a new private golf course set to open in 2022 in Pathum Thani province, Stonehill. The field will have top players who the Zimbabwean golfer grew up emulating like Dustin Johnson, Louis Garcia and Phachara Khongwatmai, a Thai professional golfer and the youngest winner of a professional tournament when he won the Singha Hua Hin Open on the All Thailand Golf Tour in July 2013 at the age of 14.
Johnson is leading the points race on 179 points ahead of Branden Grace who is on 79 with last week’s winner Cameron Smith on third. The inaugural 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series includes a season-long points race to crown the Individual Champion. Each of the seven regular-season events will award points based on individual leaderboard results. The top three players in ranking points will receive prize bonuses from the US$30 million purse, with the Individual Champion receiving the top bonus of US$18 million.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean professional golfer Robson Chinhoi celebrated yet another victory on the African circuit after clinching the Kinshasa Open at the Golf club de Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday.
Chinhoi walked away with US$10 000 and a floating trophy for his victory after he carded a three-under-par round of 69 to finish on one-under par 215 in the 54-hole tournament which is one of the popular events on the continent.
Also in the field was Visitor Mapwanya and Nyasha Muyambo who finished on position 10 and 17 respectively.
This year’s edition of the Kinshasa Open, which attracted professional golfers from several African countries and a few from France and Sweden, had a lucrative prize pool is US$25 000.
Chinhoi has been doing well on the East-Africa-based Safari Tour, and has managed to win several tournaments.
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