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Adel Balala was crowned the winner of the \u00a0NCBA Kabete Open after a sudden death win against Michael karanga in the play-off.<\/strong><\/p>\n Both golfers ended the three-day Kenya Amateur Golf Championships (KAGC) series tournament tied at four-over-par 220, forcing a playoff on holes 1, 17, and 18.<\/p>\n Each hole resulted in a tie, with Balala dropping two shots on the first hole while Karanga bogeyed. Both players parred the 17th, pushing the decision to the 18th hole.<\/p>\n In a dramatic sudden-death playoff on the 18th, both players birdied the first attempt. They returned to the same hole, where Balala held his nerve with a par, while Karanga faltered with a bogey, handing Balala the coveted title.<\/p>\n Balala\u2019s victory was a tale of two halves. He shot an impressive two-under-par 70 in both the first and second rounds before dropping eight strokes in the final round. Karanga, meanwhile, started slow with a three-over-par 75 but climbed the leaderboard with a one-under-par 71 in the final round.<\/p>\n The tournament, sponsored by NCBA Bank as title sponsors, attracted an impressive field of 133 players from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n The event was a qualifying tournament for the World Amateur Golf Championship as well as the local KAGC ranking, adding to its significance and prestige.<\/p>\n Leader board after final round:<\/p>\n Adel Balala (Nyali) 70, 70, 80= 220<\/p>\n Michael Karanga (Kiambu) 75, 74, 71= 220<\/p>\n Joseph Cwinyaai (UGA) 69, 73, 83=225<\/p>\n T4. Josphat Rono (Golf Park) 78, 72, 76= 226<\/p>\n T4. Krish Shah (Vetlab) 77, 75, 74= 226<\/p>\n Jean D\u2019Amour (Kigali, RWA) 74, 77, 76= 227<\/p>\n T7. Shashwat Harish (Muthaiga) 79, 75, 74= 228<\/p>\n T7. Isaac Makokha (Vetlab) 76, 76, 76= 228<\/p>\n T9. Micahel Alunga (UGA) 77, 76, 76= 229<\/p>\n T9. James Mwangi (Golf Park) 77, 75, 77= 229<\/p>\n T9. John Lejirma (Kenya Railways) 76, 78, 75=229<\/p>\n T9. Elvis Muigua (Kiambu) 76, 76, 77= 229<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Adel Balala Wins NCBA Kabete Open 2024 in Playoff<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Adel Balala was crowned the winner of the \u00a0NCBA Kabete Open after a sudden death win against Michael karanga in the play-off. Both golfers ended the three-day Kenya Amateur Golf Championships (KAGC) series tournament tied at four-over-par 220, forcing a playoff on holes 1, 17, and 18. Each hole resulted in a tie, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}