As a young golfer, Liza played for the Kenyan National Women’s Golf Team. She won the Kenya National Championship title and captured medalist honors at numerous other national tournaments. She also represented Kenya in regional and national competitions, such as the 1999 East African Match Play Championship in Uganda, where she finished 5th, and the 1999 All African Strokeplay Championship in Zambia.
When Liza moved to the United States to attend university, she played for Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s women’s golf team from 1999 to 2003 and placed 4th all-time in school history with 27 tournaments played and 9 top-ten finishes. Liza learned how to play golf at a very young age from her late father John Mucheru who was a golfing legend as he captured 11 Kenyan National Championships before his untimely death in 1996.
