{"id":7583,"date":"2015-08-17T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2015-08-17T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:42:17","slug":"thomas-malopa-lusubilo-chakaniza-triumph-in-total-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/08\/17\/thomas-malopa-lusubilo-chakaniza-triumph-in-total-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Malopa, Lusubilo Chakaniza triumph in Total golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mzuzu-based golfer Thomas Malopa and Lusubilo Chakaniza emerged winners of this year\u2019s Total Malawi invitational golf tournament held at Kasasa Golf Club in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was a colourful tournament which attracted a pool of over 40 golfers.<\/p>\n<p>Malopa posted a score of 38 points when he counted out Zone VI golfer Kondwani Mphula.<\/p>\n<p>Mphula finished second when he counted out Jimmy Chansa on 38 points.<\/p>\n<p>For being champion, Malopa received a return air ticket to Johannesburg plus a trophy, while Mphula got a brai stand.<\/p>\n<p>In his victory speech, Malopa hailed Total Malawi for organising the golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the ladies category, Chakaniza reigned supreme when she won the main prize with 28 points as well as the longest drive and nearest to pin.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Mvula came second with 24 points.<\/p>\n<p>Kasasa Golf Club vice captain Geoffrey Mkoko won the club\u2019s closed contest which was open to Kasasa golfers only.<\/p>\n<p>Mkoko finished the nine-hole golf course with 37 points to claim the logic gas stove.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews Mwansa and Harvey Machinjiri won the nearest to pin and longest drive in that order.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the prize presentation ceremony, Total Malawi managing director, Seggie Kistasamy, decribed the tournament as a success saying it was organised to interact with Illovo customers in Dwangwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllovo is one of our key customers, we have been in a good relationship for over 51 years. The tournament was a good platform for us to interact with customers,\u201d said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mzuzu-based golfer Thomas Malopa and Lusubilo Chakaniza emerged winners of this year\u2019s Total Malawi invitational golf tournament held at Kasasa Golf Club in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota over the weekend. It was a colourful tournament which attracted a pool of over 40 golfers. Malopa posted a score of 38 points when he counted out Zone VI golfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7583","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\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}