Scholtysse Wins 16th Nigeria Cup.

A golf tournament tagged Nigeria Cup, to celebrate Nigeria’s 52nd Independence anniversary, was rounded off at the weekend at the Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938, Lagos.

After a keenly contested 16th edition of the Nigeria Cup, a foreign handicap 21 player, Joachim Scholtysse, won the competition with 71 net.

He was rewarded with a giant trophy and a business class ticket to travel to Europe courtesy of Lufthansa Airline. In the results made available to the media, Bonny Obieze was second with 74 net, Fischer was third with 74 on count back, while Tayo Babalakin was fourth with 75 net.

Evenly Oyome, who had earlier won both the Longest Drive Hole and the Nearest to the Pin Hole, was declared winer of the ladies tournament. Lateef Lasis won the pro tourmament. Peter Eben-Spiff was Gross winner with 76 gross followed by Christopher Obije (80) and Tim Ayomike (81). Others winners included Dapo Akande, Uyi Akpata and Femi Olutowobi.

The organisers gave series of items to the winners, which included water dispenser, micro wave oven and freezer. Members of the Golf Section of the Ikoyi Club 1938 commended the organising committee chaired by Tayo Babalakin for putting up a quality tournament this year.

The committee was lauded for its effort to bring in more sponsors for the 16th edition, a feat which the club’s members said would be hard to surpass in the nearest future.

The championship, organised by the Nigerian Community of the Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938 to celebrate the country’s independence, is sponsored this year by UBA, Access Bank, Heineken, Diamond Bank, Luthuansa Airline and Bi-Courtney Aviation Service.