Renowned player urges more young females to play golf

@SimonEchewofun A former Lady Captain of Ikoyi Golf Club, Maureen Reece, has called for the involvement of more young females in golf to enhance the sport’s development in Nigeria.

Reece who spoke on the side-lines of the 2017 World Women Golf Day at the Ibadan Golf Club said, “I am calling for the involvement of more of our young Nigerian females in the game of golf. It is a competitive sport and it is this awareness that we are creating today among the young ones who are here to mark the day,” she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was attended by 60 female golfers, while 40 children participating.

She said the game should be introduced to the schools, so that students could learn it from the basics, pointing out that it is a game of skills and endurance.

Reece decried funding to be the bane of the game’s development, recalling how she struggled to get sponsorship for a female golfer, Georgia Obah.

“I am calling on the corporate bodies to also lend a helping hand in developing golf so that the game and the youth involved in it could realise its full potentials,” Reece said.

“Before now, 70 per cent of Golf Clubs belong to men, but now with the development it means women golfers are now being recognised,” a golf enthusiast, Mrs Olanrewaju Otiti said at the event.