Amateur golfers at Ikoyi Club 1938, Lagos, are intensifying preparations for one of the biggest charity events on the club’s calendar, the Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) Foundation Charity Golf Tournament, scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2016.

The tournament, which has provided a platform for club members and corporate bodies to support social causes in the last six years, features a qualifying event scheduled for Saturday January 23, 2016 at the golf section of the club.

According to the chairman of the tournament’s organising committee, Pat Bassey, the event connects well with the golfing community because it fills a vacuum that a number of golfers have yearned for over time.

“We have a huge number of golfers, who need the platform that this event provides to connect with the indigent and the less privileged in the society. The increasing interest, year after year, only goes to show that their expectations are being met,” Bassey stated.

Over 200 players are expected to vie for slots in the qualifier, while players who scale through the one-day qualifier would be drawn alongside invited players and guests at the tournament proper.

“In the last five years, projects supported include renovation/rehabilitation of health centres in rural communities (Mowe in Ogun State and Amaimo in Imo State), building and equipping an Accident and Trauma Centre at Mowe in Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State, sickbay and library facilities (in various schools across the country), skills acquisition for mothers of OVC students and free medical screening and treatment to the less privileged in rural communities, amongst others,” Bassey revealed.