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Golf: Ikoyi Club to host world amateurs as FirstBank Lagos Open clocks 60

The golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938, the venue of the 60th edition of FirstBank-sponsored Lagos Amateur Open Golf Championship is set to receive the best amateur golfers from across the world as the sponsor marks 60-years of unwavering commitment to the sport. Billed to tee off with on Thursday, November, 18th, with Corporate Golf Challenge, a special aspect of the competition geared towards raising funds for Charities, under the banks SPARK initiative, an acronym – Start Performing Acts of Random Kindness; a values-based initiative designed to raise consciousness that we can choose to be kind, this year’s event, the organizers, Concierge sports says is a unique event to celebrate FirstBanks unwavering commitment to golf and sports in general.

The FirstBank Lagos Amateur Open Golf Championship is a World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) listed competition that attracts the best golfers from the amateur scene, not only in Nigeria but across the world. Speaking at the events pretournament briefing in Lagos on Wednesday, FirstBank’s Deputy Managing Director, Gbenga Shobo, who represented the Chief Executive Officer of FirstBank of Nigeria Limited, Adesola Adeduntan said this year’s event marks landmark sponsorship of the longestrunning known golf competition in this part of the world.

Also speaking, the Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Ms. Folake Ani-Mumuney said the bank will continue to sponso sporting events, because it reflects the banks belief in the role of sports as a major vehicle for social development, whilst also being a unifying force of individuals, irrespective of language, culture, religion and social strata in any given society.

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