A well-known Japanese politician has called on Olympic chief, Thomas Bach, to move the Tokyo 2020 golf tournaments somewhere cooler, saying that keeping them in their planned location would be irresponsible because of the heat, reports Reuters.

Captain of Tiger Golf Club, Ibadan, Alfred Amubioya has described golf as “the closest game to the game we call life’ because of the qualities it builds in the players.

A top military officer, Maj. Gen. Nuhu Angbazo, who is the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division Nigerian Army, Rukuba, near Jos, has revealed the reason golf is most common sport among personnel of the force, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The Golf Captain of Ikoyi Club 1938, Babatunde Johnson has described as impressive the development of the club’s junior players, saying they are the future of Nigerian golf. Johnson told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the the junior players were being nurtured to be world beaters, adding that Ikoyi Club provides necessary…

The newly elected captain of the Ibadan Golf Club, Col. Ade Sunmonu has urged schools in Oyo State to embrace golf as ‘it would help shape the character of their students.’ Sunmonu, who has pledged to make the Ibadan Golf Club second to none in Nigeria, said during the inaugural Captain’s Kitty in his honour…

Having played alongside Georgia Oboh at the 2018 Cote d’Ivoire Open, Nobuhle Dhlamini from Swaziland says the Nigerian has the potential to dominate the sport in Africa and also compete successfully in the world. Oboh’s Sunshine Ladies tour came to a successful end last Thursday. The teenager made the cut in the last event and…

Georgia Oboh’s career as a professional golfer has not gone exactly the way she planned it. And it is not because of want of trying. Since winning the Cote d’Ivoire Open in her debut in the paid ranks, the 18-year-old Nigerian has just fallen shot in the major competitions she has featured in. But in…

Nigeria’s Georgia Oboh shrugged off her near miss at the opening of her sojourn in the Sunshine Tour to record an improved performance at the second event of the season, the Serengeti Team Challenge, where she paired with Catherine Lau of South Africa to finish in the fourth position. Oboh missed the cut in the…

The organisers of African Sports Tourism Week – the Pan-African event and platform where sports fuses with tourism, have unveiled Accra, Ghana as the host for this year’s edition, adding that the event will top what was achieved in the previous year. According to Deji Ajomale-McWord, CEO, African Sports Tourism Week, said, “Having thoroughly deliberated…

By all standards, it is rated as a tough qualifying test, but Nigeria’s golf prodigy, Georgia Oboh, says she is set for the battles in Morocco. The challenge is the four-day finals of the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School, which will tee off on Sunday at Amelkis Golf Club in Marrakech, Morocco.   Oboh,…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has commended Ugochukwu Chigborogu and others for brushing aside all oppositions to emerge champions at the 2018 CBN Governor’s Golf Cup held at the IBB Golf and Country Club, Maitama, Abuja, at the weekend. Chigborogu, who had a Handicap of 26.5 before the one-day…

It has started as predicted by golf enthusiasts. Georgia Oboh at the weekend began her professional career on a winning note, beating the field to take the Cote d’Ivoire Open title in Houphouet Boigny’s country. The exciting 17-year-old girl, whose game keeps improving every championship, decided to join the pro ranks after her exploits at…