By SHAMAOMA MUSONDA At Lusaka Golf Club –
LEADERSHIP has changed hands at the ongoing Zambia Sugar Open Golf Championship with three players getting a share on top with a stunning score of 13-under-par 133 after two rounds of this tournament.
South Africans Vaughn Groenewald and Andrew Georgiou with Welsh Rhys Enoch each grabbed a piece of the top position but just a stroke better than another pair of competitors on a day of amazingly high scores.

•UNITED Kingdom-based Zambian golfer, Cosmas Mufaya blasts off from the bunker during the second round of the Zambia Sugar Open Championship at Lusaka Golf Club yesterday. Picture by PETER NKOTASHI

Meanwhile, just four Zambians from a field of 25 have made the cut and will be in today’s and will be in the draw of 63 players for the next two days of the tournament.
Day-One leader and defending champion Lyle Rowe managed just a two-under-par 71 yesterday with this score taking him on nine-under-par after two rounds but on a day that the course recorded some of the best scores ever seen here, he was thrust into seventh position.
Groenewald yesterday scored eight-under-par 65 to add to the five-under on Day-One which allowed him to join the leaders while Rhys carded seven-under-par but the talk was about joint leader, Georgiou who had the best score of the day of 11-under-par 62.
Also scoring an 11-under-par 62 yesterday was Jacques Kruyswijk of South African which allowed him to go into joint second position with Titch Moore, winner of the defunct 2000 Cock O’ North in Ndola, on 12-under-par 134.
Kruyswijk had on Day-One scored a humble one-under-par 72 and then blew away the course with an amazing round which had no bogey on his scorecard but seven birdies and two eagles.
“It just feels great to have a bogey-free round. I told myself at the start of the day that I was playing nicely and I wanted to keep going, and I really did not want to make a drop, because I didn’t want to lose even a little bit of momentum,” Kruyswijk said after his best ever round.
Knowing golf and its moods, Kruyswijk said he will try and ensure he stayed on his feet.
“Everything went right. It was a fun round. I’m pretty shell-shocked, but I’m very happy.”
Allan Versfeld, who at the 2014 Mopani Copper Mines Zambia Open drove away in a Jeep Cherokee after sinking a hole-in-one, is heading into the third day on 11-under-par 135 following his eight-under-par 65 yesterday.
Versfeld was a stroke ahead of Day-One leader, Lyle Rowe.
For the Zambians, 21 crashed out representing an 84 per cent drop out but Madalitso Muthiya remained the nation’s best prospect and was the top-placed local on four-under-par 142 after the two rounds.
Muthiya added a two-under-par 71 yesterday to the first day’s score while Dayne Moore, who was the best-placed Zambian on Day One on four-under-par 69, dropped one shot yesterday to make it into the last two days on a three-under-par 143.
United Kingdom based Cosmas Mufaya made the cut in his first Zambia Sugar Open tournament with a one-under-par 72 which was an addition to the level-par 73 on the first day.
He was joined into the last two day of the tournament by Abhinav Walia who after starting this tournament with two-under-par 71, dropped the two shots yesterday to finish with level par 146 but most importantly making the cut set at Par.
The bottom of the leaderbord was anchored by five Zambians with professional golfer Aaron Simfukwe leading the way, though into the wrong direction, with a two round score of 29-over-par 175.
Yesterday, Simfukwe made 10 bogeys and three double bogeys with a triple bogey on the 15th.