Easy will do it for promising lady golfer Juliya Nampewo

Moses Alsayed Lubega

Just when Nampewo Juliya Joan could easily have remembered IT DOES, she lost memory at a critical time when the principle was indispensable-at Uganda’s premier golf event-The Uganda Ladies Open.

Standing on the tee ground on the opening par three at the Lake Victoria Serena Golf Course, the 19-year-old was faced with a tricky pin position.  She thought- ‘Let me do something magical to overcome the awkward pin and prying bankers’. She paid with a bogey. It was the case for the three unforgettable rounds’; bogeys and double bogeys dotting her score card on par threes. Hole 15 was the odd good story responsible for two birdies.  

During the three days’ event, the handicap 9 recalls how she tried too hard to settle the score after distressing bogeys, and instead turned a blip into a horror; she ended in deeper rough.  

With 93, 90, 90 scores respectively, for a 273 gross score, Nampewo Juliya was remotely done. In defeat, she however gained an ageless career lesson, now safely stashed in her locker; going easy should have done it for me’ she looks back with humble regret. 

Easy is the jewel that champions turn to especially during moments of ill luck.  With those lessons ground in, she can NOW cosy up to memories of future toasts at the Clubhouse that have coincided with a scholarship to Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States. 

She will become the first lady golfer to navigate the unchartered territory, hitherto a male vineyard (six Ugandan male golfers already enrolled)  

It is a twist of fate into golf farmland, with the best conditions to succeed flirting with her. Her entrance into previously ‘the super natural world’ (Julian fondly deems the United States) has been handed the keys with tutelage from Flavia Namakula- the country’s most dominant lady golfer of the past decade. In ‘Flashy five’, a famous name Namakula’s fans warm to, Nampewo Julian is in safe and trusted hands to seize hold of the abundant golf supplies. 

When Julian whispered the good news to her mentor on her scholarship, Flavia Namakula responded with a ‘Guardians goodwill’; ‘we are already late for practice round gal’. The teenage golfer will count on such goodwill from her country mates (male golfers) already settled in, to make an imprint in the land where playing simple is hard enough to master but EASY WILL DO IT for Nampewo Juliya Joan.