JGF duo of Chanelle Wangari and Andrew Wahome win Congaree Initiative Scholarship

The Junior Golf Foundation (JGF), through the Kenya Golf Union (KGU), received an invitation in September 2022 to nominate players to the 2023 Congaree Global Golf Initiative (CGGI).

The CGGI is an immersive collegiate preparatory program tailored to high school students from the U.S. and abroad with ambitions to play golf at the collegiate level.

During CGGI, selected participants are invited to attend an all-expense paid, one-week summer session at Congaree.

The program is designed to provide CGGI participants with the highest level of golf coaching, academic counselling, mentorship and ongoing support to enhance their opportunities for success when applying to college. The majority of CGGI participants in the first four classes received golf scholarship offers from accredited four-year colleges and universities and 95%enrolled in college. They expect similar results from their 2021 and 2022 participants.

JGF issued a call to members to submit applications for consideration to the program and sixteen (16) entries were received. Six (6) entries which met the requirements were submitted to the Congaree Foundation.

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We are pleased to announce that of the forty-eight (48) available awards globally, Kenyan juniors won two (2) scholarship awards. These awards were won by Chanelle Wangari and Andrew Wahome, who are both JGF members and have represented Kenya in the National Junior Golf Team.

JGF is committed to the development of junior golf in Kenya and college golf is an important pathway that remains key to transitioning a junior golfer to a top amateur or professional golfer.

JGF hopes to identify opportunities in colleges and universities and share such opportunities to its members.