Uganda, May 8 -- Deo Akope has lived the greater part of his life in golf. It is something that inevitably humbles him.

"I don't remember when I started playing but it's a long time," he said in an emotional speech last weekend at Entebbe Golf Club.

Akope had just witnessed a field of 211 players grace the inaugural Deo Akope Challenge Golf tournament over three days at the par-71 course

Akope humbled

"Before I go through anything, just seeing you here makes me breakdown," the 43-year-old said. A group of friends and companies had helped Akope launch works of his Deo Akope Foundation through this championship.

"I was not born in Entebbe but was bred in Entebbe because I had my uncle who was a flight engineer. The first club I held wa...