Olapade wins Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic

Nigeria’s number two-ranked professional golfer, Sunday Olapade, at the weekend, beat the field to win the ninth Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic.

The Osun State-born Olapade was the star of the 54-hole three-day event, which featured some of the best golfers in the country and invited international pros from a number of West African countries.

Also, in the three days aggregated scores for professionals on the championship course, Olapade again, shooting 73 (+1), 69 (-3) and 71(-1), led the field with three strokes margin, leaving Francis Epe and Kalamu Bako in the second and third place respectively.

“My game is in the right place now. I am scoring well; the layout and the standard of the Lakowe Lakes Golf Course have always fascinated me. I always look forward to playing it and it is the best course by far. So, I think a number of factors came together for me. I am really honoured,” Olapade said in the post-tournament speech.

In the team event that paired professionals and amateur players together, Olapade’ s partnership with Peter Eben Spiff, Fatumata Soukouna Coker and Baxter Scott fetched a second place finish behind Kalamu Bako’s led team that had Vitus Ezenwa, Paul Watton and Ebruwiyor Omaruaye.

Speaking earlier at the event, Golf Manager of the Lakowe Lakes Golf Estate, Olagbenro, said the Classic is part of a basket of activities designed to commemorate the facility’s anniversary, adding that the parent company, Mixta Africa, is billed to expand the offering for all its clients.

“The Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic is one of the events in the basket of events tagged ‘Escape to the Green’ and this basically is to be able to create enough activities to satisfy the interest of the golfers and non-golfers that make up the Lakowe Lakes Golf Estate Community.

“This year, we had fishing, Picnic, wine tasting, Art Auction, Movie Night, Leadership Talk, Boat Riding among others,” he said.