Kenyan juniors Chanelle Wangari and Andrew Wahome are the winners of the 2023 Congaree Global Golf Initiative scholarships.
Wangari and Wahome, who are members of the Junior Golf Foundation and represented Kenya in the National Junior Golf Team, won the awards out of the 48 possible awards globally.
In September last year, the Junior Golf Foundation (JGF) received an invitation from the Kenya Golf Union (KGU) to nominate players for the CGGI program.
JGF called upon its members to submit applications for consideration, and out of 16 entries received, six met the requirements and were submitted to the Congaree Foundation.
The CGGI program was tailored to high school students from the U.S. and abroad with ambitions to play golf at the collegiate level.
The majority of CGGI participants in the first four classes received four-year golf scholarship offers from accredited colleges and universities and 95 per cent enrolled in college.
Participants of the program were also invited to attend an all-expenses-paid, one-week summer session at Congaree.
JGF has stated that it is committed to the development of junior golf in Kenya, emphasising that college golf is a key pathway to transitioning a junior golfer to a top amateur or professional.
The foundation has said it will continue to identify opportunities in colleges and universities and share them with their members
