adminSikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko is expected to lead a strong team of academics and captains of industry who will take part in the Lupane State University fundraising golf tournament set for Harry Allen Golf Club this morning. The University hopes to raise about $30,000 from the event. The institution’s marketing and public relations director Zwelithini Dlamini said the money is meant to buy computers for students.
Other senior officials expected to take to the greens are Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and Sport and Recreation Minister Makhosini Hlongwane.
Dlamini said vice chancellors from different universities, representatives of the university’s suppliers and captains of industry will also participate in the tournament.
The tournament will use a Four Ball Better Ball format. In this format, golfers tee off in groups of four (either as one four-person team or as two, two-person teams), and each golfer plays his own ball. So there are four balls in play on each hole, but only one ball (the better ball, or low ball) counts per team per hole.
If four-person teams are in use, then all four golfers tee off and play their own balls into the hole. The low score among the four counts as the team score for that hole.
If two-person teams are in use, then Team One and Team Two tee off together (so four balls are still in play), and each team’s low ball counts as that team’s score on each hole.
With two-person teams, 4BBB can be played as stroke play or match play.
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