Challenge get The National’s backing

 By KYMLIE KARANI

THE annual Prime Minister’s Corporate Golf Challenge is set for the May 31 at the Royal Port Moresby Golf club.

The event is a fundraiser similar to the annual Trukai Fun Run for the Papua New Guinea Sports Federation and Olympic Committee that also assists in sending the PNG team to international events such as the Pacific Games and Mini-Pacific Games.

Thirty-four teams participated last year but PNGSFOC secretary-general Auvita Rapilla is hoping more teams will join the event. 

Fourteen teams have so far confirmed their participation.

Rapilla said that their targeted amount to be raised from this event for this year would need to go a long way to meeting the K2.8 million cost of sending Team PNG for the Mini-Pacific Games in Wallis and Futuna in September.

PNG will be taking part in eight sports at the Mini-Games. Athletics, Va’a, sailing, rugby 7s (men), volleyball, beach volleyball, weightlifting and taekwondo.

“Most of the sports going to Wallis and Futuna will be using the Mini Games to gauge their current level of performance ahead of the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby,” Rapilla said.

The PM’s Golf Challenge will be staged in Lae on July 14.