The
MTN World Golfers Championship national finals will tee off at the prestigious
Ibom Golf Club inside the Ibom Le Meridien Hotel in Nwaniba, Uyo, capital of
Akwa Ibom State from September 8 to 9, 2012.
Considered
to be one of the best in Africa, the club will play host to regional qualifiers
for the national finals to determine Nigeria’s representatives at the World
Finals in Durban, South Africa between October 27 and November 3, 2012.
General
Manager, Consumer Marketing, MTN, Mr. Kola Oyeyemi says MTN has come up with
many innovative products and services to make golfers talk more, laugh more and
love more during and after the national finals.
“In further demonstration of our commitment to
the enrichment of the lives of our customers, we have slashed our rates so low
now that all customers including golfers can talk more for less,” he said.
The long journey to the national finals began
with the Eastern regional qualifiers on May 26, 2012 in Port Harcourt. The
event saw golfers from all over the Eastern part of the country and their
counterparts from the South-South region converge on Port Harcourt the Garden
City, as is fondly called, for the three -day event. Mr. I. Kalio, playing off
handicap 4, returned with a gross score of 77 and net score of 73 to emerge
winner in handicap 0-5, category one.
The trail then moved to Lagos for the Western
regional qualifiers where Mr. Christopher Obije, an aircraft mechanic with
Lufthanza Airlines qualified with eight others for the national finals.
Obije and the others made it to the finals after
coming out tops at the Western edition of the qualifiers held at the Ikeja Golf
Club. The event, which kicked-off as early as 6:40 am on June 9, 2012, saw the
best golfers in the Western region flooding the golf course with great
expectations. Obije won in the 0-5 handicap, category one, with a gross score
of 80, net score of 76 with a personal handicap of 4.
The next phase was the Northern regional qualifiers
which held at the IBB International Golf Club in Abuja from 30th June, 2012.
Wilfred Shagba emerged winner of the northern regional qualifiers after
returning with a gross score of 88 and a net score of 67 in category five
(handicap 21 – 25) to produce the best score in the championship.Having had great fun in each region, the
hard-fighting and extremely calculating golfers will bag their clubs and head
to Akwa Ibom for the mother-of-all-crackers in the national grand finale. The
likes of regional victors Obijie, Kalio and Shagba will square up against each
other.
Ibom golf course is also a natural beauty to
behold, especially with the lush green of its fairways and the dark greens of
its roughs. But one great attraction of the course remains its putting greens,
which are probably among the best maintained of all courses in the country.
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