Hosts Zim fight back

HOSTS Zimbabwe put up a decent third round show in which they scored the day’s second best score that resulted in them dislodging Egypt from second position heading into today’s final day of the 2017 FBC All Africa Golf Championships at the Elephant Hills Golf Course.

Having started the day on third place with 440 points, the David Amm-captained hosts put up a strong fight yesterday, with Amm carding a two-under-par 70 finish while compatriot stormed into the individual Top 10 with a level par 72.

Tatenda Makunde and Rasheed Mohameed carded 76 and 75 respectively to see Zimbabwe end Day Three on 658 points, 22 off tournament favourites South Africa, who had Malcom Mitchell and Matt Saulez carding 73 and 76.

It looks promising for Team Zimbabwe heading into today’s final round, but they must be worried about Reunion, who are 14 points behind.

On the individual score sheets, South Africa’s Malcolm Mitchell maintained a decent lead over Egypt’s Issa Abu El Ela and Zimbabwe’s Amm, who are tied on three-under while the South African is a distant eighth.

South Africa ......... 211 Zimbabwe............ 225 Reunion................ 222 Egypt .................... 219 Swaziland ............ 226 Zambia ................. 226 Tunisia .................. 229 Kenya ................... 224 Mauritius.............. 230 Uganda ................ 236 Botswana ............. 234 Ghana................... 228 Namibia ............... 239 Tanzania ............... 240 Angola.................. 254

Country ...................... Malcom Mitchell( .SA) Issa Abu El Ela (Egypt) David Amm(Zimbabwe) Garrick Higgo ...... (SA) A Lasalarie..(Reunion) Tonderayi Masunga(Zim) Alfred Nandwa(Kenya) Edwin Madigela(Bots) DMulambo.. (Zambia)

209 215 221 220 224 229 225 232 223 225 244 240 230 234 260

Day 1 67 71 76 68 69 73 71 72 73

216 218 221 227 225 221 228 228 235 231 219 230 234 238 255

Day 2 68 72 67 77 71 74 73 79 74

636 658 664 666 675 676 682 684 688 692 697 698 703 712 769

Day 3 73 70 70 72 79 72 77 71 76