{"id":18928,"date":"2020-11-21T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2020-11-21T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:20:04","slug":"tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown","title":{"rendered":"TPDF LUGALO GOLFERS IMPRESS AT TPC OPEN SHOWDOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0MBONILE BURTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> THE Chairman of Tanzanian People\u2019s Defence Forces (TPDF) Lugalo Golf Club, Michael Luwongo is satisfied with the level of performance his players displayed at the just ended TPC Open Golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Lugalo brought nine golfers at TPC course for the annual national tournament jointly organized by TPC Club and Tanzania Golf Union (TGU).<\/p>\n<p>The nine golfers were among the top finishers of the 36 holes tournament. Prior to the tournament Luwongo challenged the club\u2019s golfers to play well and bring home trophies. Lugalo golfers who participated in TPC Open included the team\u2019s captain Kibuna Shaaban, Selemani Semunyu, Nicolaus Chitanda, Hadija Selemani, John Hiza, Samweli Kileo, Halidi Shemndolwa, Malius Kajuna and Laurent Sangawe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lugalo Communication officer Semunyu, the Lugalo club dominated the Men\u2019s Division B battle by taking all top prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Lugalo\u2019s Private Sangawe impressed with aggregates 149 net stroke to win the Division B title by three shots. Sangawe beat his club-mate Private Shemndolwa who carded total 152 net after the end of two 36- hole event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes I challenge youths to do justice at the event, I understand it is a national event played in gross format which traditionally must be very good as it brought together all top golfers across the country, Iam satisfied with the level of their performance and results attained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Division B dominance at the event it gives him courage that with more efforts the club\u2019s players can advance to the next level by clinching the overall gross titles. The tournament saw TPC Club player George Sembi beating other top golfers to win this year\u2019s title.<\/p>\n<p>National team member Sembi impressed with aggregates gross of 147 strokes, while Vincent Gullo also of TPC, finished second with 149 gross strokes. He won on countback over Lugalo player Isihaka Daudi a product from the Lugalo youth development programme.<\/p>\n<p>Division A title went to Nahuum Gabriel who grossed 147 strokes while Juma Mcharo with 148 strokes finished second.<\/p>\n<p>Sahif Kanabhai of Arusha Gymkhana Club (AGC) won the Division C with 144 nett as Issa Issa of TPC with 147 nett finished overall second.<\/p>\n<p>National Ladies team player Madina Iddi hit aggregate 146 net to win ladies title as AGC\u2019s club-mate Neema Ulomi came second, while the senior player\u2019s prize went to Ashik Nanabhai of AGC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0MBONILE BURTON AfricaPress-Tanzania: THE Chairman of Tanzanian People\u2019s Defence Forces (TPDF) Lugalo Golf Club, Michael Luwongo is satisfied with the level of performance his players displayed at the just ended TPC Open Golf tournament. Lugalo brought nine golfers at TPC course for the annual national tournament jointly organized by TPC Club and Tanzania Golf Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[4158,954,238],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-michael-luwongo","tag-tgu","tag-tpdf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TPDF LUGALO GOLFERS IMPRESS AT TPC OPEN SHOWDOWN - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Chairman of Tanzanian People\u2019s Defence Forces (TPDF) Lugalo Golf Club, Michael Luwongo is satisfied with the level of performance his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TPDF LUGALO GOLFERS IMPRESS AT TPC OPEN SHOWDOWN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Chairman of Tanzanian People\u2019s Defence Forces (TPDF) Lugalo Golf Club, Michael Luwongo is satisfied with the level of performance his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-21T18:20:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/04\/631befb0ad8a6c8b7d3dafb3cc5463e7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TPDF LUGALO GOLFERS IMPRESS AT TPC OPEN SHOWDOWN\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-21T18:20:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/04\/631befb0ad8a6c8b7d3dafb3cc5463e7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Michael Luwongo\",\"TGU\",\"TPDF\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tpdf-lugalo-golfers-impress-at-tpc-open-showdown\",\"name\":\"TPDF LUGALO GOLFERS IMPRESS AT TPC OPEN SHOWDOWN - 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