Re-awakening at Bauchi Golf Club
For choice, the Bauchi course is not exactly where you will want to play your golf. The course, though vast, has not seen much of civilization. You could liken it to a dense forest where hunters, with dogs tugging behind, freely ply their trade. There is absolute no control to herds that throng the fairways. Even, the fairways are an admixture of thick grasses and pebbles.
Will you still want to play your golf here? Yes, that is if you know that after a round of golf, you can always shift base to the Yankari Games Reserve which is just some 40 minutes drive from the golf course. And again you might even catch a glimpse of the State Governor, Barrister Muhammed Abubakar, who is so passionate about the game, and is working pretty hard to give the course a turn-around. All the same, the good days are here for this Club.
Last Saturday, the Club inaugurated a powerful executive that would steer the affairs of the Club for the next two years. At the helm is a sitting Commissioner in the State Executive, Hon. Gazali Abubakar.
Aside being elected as Captain, Abubakar is indeed thrilled that the Club is finally witnessing a true turnaround. He indeed promised that his tenure would open fresh door for the Club and its members.
‘We shall be setting for work immediately”, Abubakar stated. “We shall at once go on membership drive and we shall heed the advice of our Patron, General JS Bindawa and get the course busy at all times. I will not tell you all is well with the course. Several challenges abound. Especially that of fencing our vast course so all manner of hunters and cattle shall be warded off. This is an enormous task but it must be done. Again, you can see we have started work on our Greens but we want to tread softly here. We don’t want to build Greens that will be devoured by herds. This is why fencing this vast place is top on my priorities”.
“To show appreciation to our Governor who woke this course from the dead, we are already planning an elaborate Governor’s Cup Pro-Am for the end of March this year. From here some three other major tourneys will follow before the year closes”.