Coca-Cola Customer Appreciation Golf tournament: Ogunbameru, Oyome qualify for Mauritius Open

Top Nigeria golfers from Ibadan Golf Club (IGC), Lekan Ogunbameru and Evelyn Oyome on Saturday qualify for this year Mauritius Open.

Both golfers qualified for the tournament through Coca-Cola Golf tournament organised at the Ibadan Golf Club last weekend.

Ogunbameru claimed the winner in the men’s category after he played a Net score of 66 while Oyome, Nigeria’s number one female golfer won the female top prize with the Net score of 72.

Four more golfers are expected to join both golfers from Abuja and Ikoyi Golf Club.

Speaking, both players promised to be good ambassadors of IGC and Nigeria in particular.

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Oyome said, “This is a great opportunity for me to give my best at the international level and represent the country well at the Mauritius Open courtesy of Coca-Cola.”

Ogunbameru thanked the sponsor of the tournament (Coca-Cola) for giving them the return tickets which will help them showcase their talent in Mauritius.

In his goodwill message, General Manager, Stills, West Africa Business Unit, Coca-Cola, Yebetal Getachew said Coca-Cola Company has always been associated with iconic and some of the world’s greatest sports, so this is a great opportunity for the company to grow national awareness for the sport and engage with consumers in exciting new ways.

According to him, the core objectives of the Coca-Cola Invitational Golf Tournament are to recruit and develop amateur golfers, Leverage the iconic sport to drive brand relevance and take a position of sport leadership and development, to appreciate our customers who have been the core of our business and promote an active and healthy lifestyle.

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Also, captain of Ibadan Golf Club, Olumide Oyediran lauded the organiser for bringing the tournament to IGC saying it’s a welcome development to the club.

“I am very glad that the organiser’s chose IGC, it’s a welcome development for us and we look forward to associating with Coca-Cola to continue to host this tournament (Coco-Cola golf tournament) here at IGC; and the opportunity for people to expand scope of golf by taking part in the Mauritius Pro-Am taking place in Mauritius every year.

“I’m very optimistic about our representative from IGC, Ogunbameru and Oyome are fantastic golfers. I will just say, they should maintain what they do and if everything fall into place, there is nothing that says they can’t go there and win because they are good golfers, they have shown that over the years and they represent IGC very well in the game.”