{"id":3632,"date":"2015-06-05T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:31:28","slug":"lions-club-in-fundraising-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/05\/lions-club-in-fundraising-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions club in fundraising golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions Club of Blantyre is set to hold a charity golf tournament at Mbawa Country Club, Bvumbwe.<\/p>\n<p>Lions Club conveney Taranga Makhecha, said they expect Malawi\u2019s Vice President, Saulos Chilima to grace the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>He said each team is expected K75,000 to participate to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proceeds from this tournament will go towards our Education Grants Program which is responsible for needy students in various government secondary schools who are doing Form 1 to 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLions Club of Blantyre has supported an estimated 300 needy students in government secondary schools in the country. Unfortunately, owing to donour fatigue from our sister Lions Clubs in the UK, for the current year the Club needs to raise approximately K6 million to sponsor 200 needy students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Makhecha said the club\u2019s resources only managed to sponsor seven students at Stella Maris, Blantyre and HHI Secondary Schools this academic year.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tournament would use 2BBB format to determine the champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a best ball tournament in which the teams comprise two players rather than three or four players. In other words, it\u2019s another name for a better ball tournament. And for good measure, if 2-Person Best Ball is played at match play, then it\u2019s just another name for fourball,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions Club of Blantyre is set to hold a charity golf tournament at Mbawa Country Club, Bvumbwe. Lions Club conveney Taranga Makhecha, said they expect Malawi\u2019s Vice President, Saulos Chilima to grace the occasion. He said each team is expected K75,000 to participate to pay. \u201cThe proceeds from this tournament will go towards our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}