{"id":49151,"date":"2017-06-26T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=49151"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T07:38:54","slug":"connie-karuku-steve-chisale-win-in-zomba-tnm-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/06\/26\/connie-karuku-steve-chisale-win-in-zomba-tnm-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Karuku, Steve Chisale win in Zomba TNM golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned golfers Connie Karuku and Steve Chisale emerged champions of a TNM Golf tournament held at Zomba Gymkhana Club on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s section, Chisale, was counted in after scoring 45 points to emerge winner whereas second-placed Richards Mkwapatira was counted out after also scoring 45 points to finish as the runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Mukiwa scored 43 points and was counted in to finish on position three.<\/p>\n<p>Chisale said it was an emotional tournament following the death of his daughter last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost my daughter last week and my wife was reluctant to allow me to play in this tournament. It took a lot of persuasion for her to give me the consent to play. So I came here and did the best for my wife and my departed daughter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In men\u2019s subsidiary prizes, Yohane Mzuza hit the longest drive whereas Muhammad Patel won the nearest to the pin.<\/p>\n<p>In the ladies\u2019 section, Karuku, playing of handicap 15, scored 42 points to emerge winner.<\/p>\n<p>Bose Kamphulusa finished as the runner-up with 36 points.<\/p>\n<p>In ladies\u2019 subsidiary prizes, Beatrice Mangwana won the longest drive.<\/p>\n<p>In a category for TNM employees, Harriet Marian was crowned champion with 36 points.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament attracted a field of 67 golfers, breaking the past four years\u2019 record which stood at 56.<\/p>\n<p>TNM Chief Officer (Enterprise Services), Vishwajeet Deshmukh, said the company organised the tournament to promote its digital transformation services which offer a wide range of products and services that ease business operations, hence reducing the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe internet is transforming the way every business operates. Some companies are faring better than others in the race to become digital businesses. Through the Digital Transformation Campaign, we have taken steps to introduce digital services through a broad range of technologies and applications that enable greater efficiency and automation, better decision making and stronger relationship with customers and other external stakeholders,\u201d Deshmukh said.<\/p>\n<p>Deshmukh said, through digital transformation, TNM is providing world-class ICT solutions to enterprises across the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned golfers Connie Karuku and Steve Chisale emerged champions of a TNM Golf tournament held at Zomba Gymkhana Club on Saturday. In the men\u2019s section, Chisale, was counted in after scoring 45 points to emerge winner whereas second-placed Richards Mkwapatira was counted out after also scoring 45 points to finish as the runner-up. Charles Mukiwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49151","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=49151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49153,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49151\/revisions\/49153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}