VP Mujuru to tee off at UNWTO golf tourney

Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
VICE-President Joice Mujuru will be among the more than 100 players that will tee off at the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) golf tournament set for the Elephant Hills Golf Course in Victoria Falls on Friday. VP Mujuru is expected to take to the greens at approximately 10.30am for the event that is meant to showcase the resort town of Victoria Falls as a destination of choice ahead of the forthcoming UNWTO general assembly that will be co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia from 24-29 August.

“Vice President, Mujuru is the patron and will take on the first tee at say 10.30 in the morning. The tournament’s objective is to promote Victoria Falls as a destination of choice for the UNWTO and beyond,” said a statement from the organising committee whose chairperson is the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Development permanent secretary Munesu Munodawafa.

Besides VP Mujuru, the tournament will see other high profile sports personalities like  racing driver Axcil Jeffries and renowned cricketer Hamilton Masakadza taking part in marketing the event and Victoria Falls.

“We will also have captains of industry, chief executive officers, chairpersons of various boards and other dignitaries,” added the organisers.
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.