Kiambu golf club opens its doors to the public, as it states sport not just for the elite

The Star Kenya

Kiambu Golf Club has opened its doors to the public as a way of encouraging more people to join the club to end the stigma of the sport belonging just to the elite.

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00:00 We've already done the handing over.

00:07 This is now handed over to the board of Kiabukof Club for the year 2024.

00:21 We agree that we won't again close this club.

00:25 And we've had a problem maybe with other lanes, that people within this facility think that

00:33 this club is just for elite.

00:35 Now we want to open this club up so that members of the public in a while will be able to come

00:42 and patronise the club at a very reasonable rate.

00:46 We are going to encompass the municipality schools which are within Kiabukof municipality

00:53 where this club is domiciled to ensure that the schools within this municipality, most

00:58 of the primary schools, children from those primary schools who would wish to major in

01:04 playing golf, we are able to support them.

01:08 But this one cannot be done by the club alone because of the limited resources.

01:12 We are going to go forward and get in touch with the area MP through the national government

01:19 and the governor through the county government.

01:21 So that hand in hand we'll be able to bring those schools on board.

01:26 Our focus is really on the youth because we want to see a transition from one age to another,

01:34 I mean the next age group.

01:36 So we are focusing so much on the youth as a future of the club.

01:41 We are having continuous membership drives, giving subsidised rates to encourage more

01:49 people to join the club and remove the stigma, as the chairman has said, of a club membership

01:55 being from the elite.

01:56 Golf is a game, like any other game, it's a revenue generator and it can become a game

02:01 changer for those who really take part in doing what is supposed to be done.

02:05 As we prepare to have more youth coming in, it helps for ladies to be players because

02:10 mothers are more likely to bring in the children to play.

02:13 I think we've seen that more evident now with the lady director heading the children's arm

02:21 of the club and it's been very successful.

02:24 We had quite a number of children come in to play and the numbers are growing as their

02:31 mothers play.

02:32 Also the women population in the club has really, really increased.

02:36 We've got so many activities for the women.

02:38 We had Haiti, a very successful event just a few weeks ago, actually last week, so it

02:44 was very successful and we are going to have very many events for the women, both members

02:49 and non-members, in trying to entice them to come and join us.

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