{"id":224772,"date":"2026-02-23T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-rewards-golf-star-kibugu-with-millions-after-magical-kenya-open-success\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:09:52","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-rewards-golf-star-kibugu-with-millions-after-magical-kenya-open-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-rewards-golf-star-kibugu-with-millions-after-magical-kenya-open-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto Rewards Golf Star Kibugu With Millions After Magical Kenya Open Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22, 2026 &#8211; President William Ruto has rewarded Kenyan pro golfer Njoroge Kibugu with Ksh 5 million after a stellar show at the Magical Kenya Open.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">President Ruto directed Sports Cabinet Salim Mvurya to wire the 22-year-old&#8217;s bank account for all the hard work in making the country proud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Congratulations to one Njoroge Kibugu&#8230;you have made the country proud. I direct the Sports Cabinet Secretary here to award the sum of Ksh 5 million so that it can inspire other young&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22, 2026 &#8211; President William Ruto has rewarded Kenyan pro golfer Njoroge Kibugu with Ksh 5 million after a stellar show at the Magical Kenya Open. President Ruto directed Sports Cabinet Salim Mvurya to wire the 22-year-old&#8217;s bank account for all the hard work in making the country proud. &#8220;Congratulations to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":224773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15676,4688,430,53738,24196,7033,257,5983,2450,13261,11238,254,10128,12051],"class_list":["post-224772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-golf","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kibugu","tag-magical","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-open","tag-president","tag-rewards","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-success"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}