IBB Golf Club’s tourney welcomes 500 foreign, local stars

Golf

Over 100 foreign stars will feature at the IBB Golf and Country Club’s Independence Day tournament from September 25 to October 1, the organisers of the yearly festival have said.

This number would be joined by about 400 Nigerian players from clubs across the country.

The heavy number means some of the world’s best players will grace the country’s single biggest golf tournament, which celebrates unity, talent, and excellence on the lush greens of one of Africa’s best championship golf courses.

According to the organisers, the 2023 IBB Golf Club Independence edition will be exposed to a national and global audience expected to surpass over 100 million people.

“For the first time in its storied history, the Independence golf tourney will see the participation of four countries, welcoming approximately 100 foreign players to the course, IBB Club Captain, Banjo Obaleye, said.

According to Obaleye, “the international camaraderie underscores the tournament’s growing reputation and showcases the lush conditions of the course, made possible by state-of-the-art machinery never seen before in Nigeria’s golf history.”

Breaking away from the traditional approach, this year’s event also promises to create an unforgettable tournament for players and unprecedented experiential experience for sponsors.

Though the IBB International Golf and Country Club itself cannot affiliate with international golf bodies, Obaleye said the pursuit of global recognition remains at the forefront.

The chairman of the Independence Cup Organising Committee, and the Club’s Vice Captain, Ibrahim Babayo, said, “the Club will continue to carefully forge strategic partnerships with overseas golf clubs, and work to propel the Independence Golf Tourney into the ranks