{"id":3160,"date":"2025-09-13T19:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:50:26","slug":"emaswati-make-cut-for-kings-cup-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/3160\/eswatini-daily-news\/emaswati-make-cut-for-kings-cup-final-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Emaswati Make Cut for King\u2019s Cup Final Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_3168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kings-Cup-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golfers James Pennington and Mandla Dlamini Jnr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EZULWINI \u2013 Sixteen Eswatini golfers have booked their places in the final round of the 2025 King\u2019s Cup at Ezulwini Golf and Country Club.<br \/>After two gruelling days of play, only five of the 15 local professionals advanced joined by 11 amateurs. Leading the Eswatini professionals is James Pennington, who impressed with 3-under par. He is joined by Sifiso Vilane (+2), Jabulani Mabaso (+2), Oscar Dube (+2) and Mandla Dlamini Jnr (+3).<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the overall leaderboard are South African stars Hayden Griffiths and Keenan Davidse tied on 7-under par. Both Griffiths and Davidse are chasing their second King\u2019s Cup crown after winning it in 2023 and 2024, respectively.<br \/>Among the amateurs, Vusi Godfrey Dlamini remains the standout local after carding 69 on day one before slipping to 78 yesterday to sit on 3-over par. Hot on his heels is Machawe Maziya, who scored 76 and 72 over the last two rounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eswatinifinancialtimes.africa\/ebet-invests-e0-5mln-in-eswatini-within-three-months\/\">eBet invests E0.5mln in Eswatini within three months<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tournament has so far seen 30 out of the 50 professionals and 15 of the 22 amateurs making the cut for today\u2019s final round. It has drawn a strong international field featuring players from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia and Namibia.<br \/>The competition was officially sanctioned on Friday at a gala dinner hosted at Lozitha Palace, where His Majesty King Mswati III, the tournament\u2019s patron, encouraged local golfers to rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope our golfers will work hard to win the good prize money so that their families may be happy. Let them also take advantage of the E600 000 hole-in-one prize, which I am sure may solve a lot of the winner\u2019s problems,\u201d said His Majesty. This year\u2019s King\u2019s Cup carries a sponsorship package of E3.1 million. The champion professional will pocket E240 000 while the runner-up will take home E164 350. On the amateur side, the top two finishers will earn E24 000 and E15 000, respectively.<br \/>Sponsors include the Eswatini Royal Insurance Corporation (ESRIC), MTN Eswatini, Ubombo Sugar Limited, Nedbank, Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC), Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and Eswatini Railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EZULWINI \u2013 Sixteen Eswatini golfers have booked their places in the final round of the 2025 King\u2019s Cup&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,43],"tags":[73,90,91,54],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eswatini-daily-news","category-national","category-sports","tag-eswatini","tag-golf","tag-kings-golf-cup","tag-sports","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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