Stanbic Bank has announced a three-year shs500 million sponsorship of the renamed Stanbic Match Play Challenge.
The event will span eight months, culminating into a grand finale slated for this October and feature both professional and amateur players.
This comes after the partnership between Singleton and the Entebbe Club management came to an end late last year.
Speaking during a news conference today, Sam Mwogeza, Executive Head for Personal and Private Banking at Stanbic Bank said, “We are thrilled to be partnering with our friends of Entebbe Golf Club to bring you what we believe shall be an exciting and fun filled sporting experience and we want to invite all golf lovers. I am proud to confirm the starting date for Stanbic Match Play Challenge is March 16 at the Entebbe Golf Club.”
“We are also excited about all those who are partnering with us and also say well done to the Club chairman and the Club captain for helping with the excellent organization for the event.’’
He said Stanbic Bank is committed to strengthening engagement with its customers and clients and the game of golf has the power of bringing people together.
“We have partnered with the CFAO Motors; a very exciting partnership, because anyone who can hit a hole -in -one will drive away in a brand-new Toyota Land Cruiser.”
Sserwano Walusimbi the Entebbe Club Captain said, “We’re very grateful as Entebbe Club to Stanbic Bank as the title sponsor for the Stanbic Match Play Championship, and of course to Uganda Airlines, CFAO Motors and DSTV for business, who have really been partners of Entebbe Club for quite a number of
years. Stanbic has, of course, not only sponsored this, but we also know they sponsor our Entebbe Open. So we are really grateful for this partnership, knowing the golfing fraternity is really going to benefit.”
“We are going to have about seven rounds starting with the qualifier. After the qualifier we are going to select about 64 pairs. 64 pairs who will not go into round one up till the championship match. As you know this is match play and you know it is a very interesting format that golfers really love. It is very challenging as you play
against the course, you play against yourself, you play with your partner and you play against your opponents.”
