A TOTAL of 11 teen golfers will represent Nigeria at this month’s U.S. Kids European Golf Championships taking place in Gullane, Scotland, where they will vie for honours alongside over 500 other children from 30 other countries.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Kids Golf International (KGI) Academy, who is also the Oloni of Eti-Oni in Osun State, Oba Taiwo Thompson, will lead the kids to the championships.

About four of the kids are United States-based while the Nigeria-based one play out of different golf clubs in the country including Ikoyi Club 1938, Enugu Golf Club, Enugu State, Sagamu Golf Club, Ogun State, Kaduna Golf Club, Kaduna and Rayfield Golf Club in Plateau State.

They include Georgia Oboh, Anita Uwadia, Chinwe Obuaya, Avani Prashanth, Kenile Offili, Jordan Thompson, Manji Gimsay, Diana Osmond, Chiemere Isife, Paul Odoh, Osiregbeme Egbakhumeh and Samuel Manchang.

Preparations for their departure, according to Kids Golf International (KGI) Nigeria have reached advanced stage just as the affected teen golfers were said to be joggling their practice with academic works elegantly.

However, Odoh would not make the trip, which also serves as a qualifier for Callaway World Golf Championships in San Diego, California, United States from July 14th to 19th because his examinations falls within this period.

The children will be chaperoned by their parents, relatives and some government officials to the three-day international developmental programme, which runs from May 28 to 30.

Gullane, venue of the tourney, is just minutes drive from Murifield, where this year’s British Open championships will take place.

The players and their parents or chaperons will depart the country early next week to afford them time to settle down and practice in Gullane, and Thompson, who will be at the head of the KGI delegation has expressed delight at the quality of Nigerian representation.

The monarch said he was delighted with the calibre of the players in the team describing them as dedicated and hardworking teenagers who are determined to come back with silverwares.