September 13, (THEWILL) – years after Egba high chief, Apagun Stephen Oluwole Olumide, passed on, the Abeokuta golf club is planning to celebrate his life and times with a memorial golf tournament. The idea of a golf tournament is due to his passion for the game and his selfless encouragement of golfers across the country, regardless of their level. Apagun Olumide had a great vision for Abeokuta Golf Club and he sacrificed a great deal of his time to making it an enjoyable experience for many. This prompted him to beautify the club’s premises with an artificial lake called Lake Toria.
The inaugural annual tournament, which is scheduled to hold on September 24 and 25th, 2021, will also serve as an opportunity to launch a funding mechanism to irrigate the golf course. It will be the golf club’s way of ensuring the late Apagun owns the legacy of achieving the irrigation project which would help improve the playing condition of the golf course during the dry season. This was his vision, but unfortunately, he couldn’t accomplish it before he passed on.
To this end, the club is seeking financial support from family, friends and the golfing community at large, to actualise the proposed annual golf tournament which will cost about N10 million. The five categories of sponsorship to raise the N10m are Platinum (N3 million and above); Diamond (N2 million); Gold (N1million); Silver (N500,000) and Bronze-any amount of one’s choice.
A strong supporter of modern development, culture and tourism, Apagun Olumide committed the last two decades of his life to the golf project in Abeokuta Golf Club and through this project, he became one of the biggest promoters of tourism in Ogun State. He was a philanthropist to the core and a passionate promoter of Egbaland both locally and internationally.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
