FOUR alleged cheats, who were disqualified from the Glo Golf Tour West Africa for varying degrees of malpractices, have had their judgement day shifted as their meeting with the disciplinary committee of the Professional Golfers’ Association of...

FROM January 14 to 19, Category One players wishing to relinquish their amateur status and play golf professionally will be battling to earn their tour cards as the 2013 Qualifying School of the Professional Golfers’ Association of Nigeria holds...

Fourteen-year-old Tolu Ajayi, Wednesday became the winner of the maiden Junior Golf Championship at Ikeja Golf Club, Lagos State.

Ajayi, who returned 107 gross score to win the 18-hole tournament, which was meant to encourage kid’s...

DIRECTOR of the Professional Golfers’ Association of Nigeria (PGAN), Mr. Festus Makalemi, has singled out the out gone 2012 as a year like no other in the history of professional golf in the country.

To this end, Makalemi says the body was...

AFTER a cursory look at the out gone 2012 season in the Nigerian Tour, Director of Special Duties of the Professional Golfers’ Association of Nigeria (PGAN), Dominic Andrew says his colleagues must redouble their efforts if they intend to remain...

IAN Poulter is the first of Europe’s Ryder Cup heroes into action in 2013, but this week’s Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii is his only appearance until late February.

Part of a PGA Tour winners-only 30-strong field at Kapalua, the...

JORDAN Spieth has accepted a sponsor exemption to the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open, tournament chairman Sidney Wolf told Golfweek. This is the first public announcement of a sponsor exemption for Spieth, who turned pro last month.

The Puerto...

WORLD number one golfer, Rory McIlroy, has revealed that he may not play in the next Olympics.

The 23-year-old from Holywood would be eligible for selection by either Great Britain or Ireland at the 2016 Games in Rio.

However, in a BBC...

WITH a contract to administer golf at Lakowe Lakes Golf Estates, International Management Group (IMG) says it would work assiduously to contribute its quota to bringing Nigeria up to speed with golf advancement as seen in other parts of the...

JUST like the Scottish missionary Mary Slessor, which it is named after, the Mary Slessor Charity Golf Championship has the capacity to touch lives and revolutionise golf in Cross River State in particular and Nigeria in general.

This was the...

At the commencement of the 2012 season, nothing suggested the year was going to be a historic one for professional golf in Nigeria. But as the season approached a familiar end, a spirited effort by a single organisation midwifed what ended up...