Elly Limo poses after winning the NCBA Winston Churchill 2026/HANDOUTForty-seven golfers have confirmed participation in the inaugural NCBA Machakos Open, which tees off today (Friday) at Machakos Golf Club.
The NCBA Machakos Open is the eighth leg of the 2026 Kenya Amateur Golf Championship series with a prize purse of Sh400,000.
Machakos
Open is one of two new additions to the KAGC calendar this season, alongside
the Ulinzi Invitational, which was staged earlier in March at the Kenya Air
Force Golf Club in Nairobi.
Golf Park’s
Elly Limo heads into the tournament as one of the players to watch, arriving in
strong form following his victory at the NCBA Winston Churchill 2026 last
weekend.
He will face
competition from a solid field that includes Deaf golfer Isaack Makokha, John
Koina, John Kamais, Felix Dusabe, and Josphat Rono, among others.
Kenya Golf
Union (KGU) vice chairman Brian Akun, who is also the tournament's director, said the inclusion
of two new tournaments on the calendar this year is aimed at elevating the performance
standards of the amateurs while at the same time giving them more structured
pathways for growth.
“The NCBA
Ulinzi Invitational was a big success, and we look forward to an even better
NCBA Machakos Open this weekend,” said Akun.
In the race
for the 2026 KAGC title, Jay Sandhu leads the standings with a commanding 560
points, a significant gap over Junaid Manji, who sits second on 334.02
points.
Elvis Muigua
has climbed to third with 247.26 points following his runner-up finish in
Thika, while Kamoza Longwe has dropped to fourth on 246.30 points. Michael Karanga rounds out the top five on 243.52 points.
At the same
time, attention also turns to Golf Park, which will host the eighth qualifier
of the 2026 NCBA Golf Series this Friday.
The
qualifier will be staged as a mini-event during the club’s Monthly Mug,
offering golfers from the club an opportunity to secure slots for the
season-ending Grand Finale set for Karen Country Club in November.
Golf Park players will battle for top honours across multiple categories, including overall gross winner (men and ladies), runners-Up (men and ladies), third and fourth best overall gross, as well as the junior winner.
This will be
the eighth qualifying event this season after Royal Nairobi Golf Club in
January, Kericho, Muthaiga, and Mombasa in
February, Mt Kipipiri and Kenya Railways in March,
and Nanyuki earlier this month.
