The TYB International Golf Resort and Country Club has rewarded no fewer than 200 caddies and others for their contributions to the club.
The recipient categories which include caddies, course workers, cleaners, stewards and the professionals were rewarded with foodstuff and other items. Sporting Tribune reports that the event was part of activities to mark the end of the year 2023.
In the one-day Kitty competition organised by the club, J.O. Umoru playing off handicap 13 emerged the winner in the men’s category. Umoru played a gross score of 45 over 9 holes to return a best net of 32. Bose Nwoegbo, playing off handicap 13, emerged as the winner with a gross score of 47 over 9 holes to return a best net of 34 in the women’s category while Salis Usman was crowned the winner in the veteran’s category, Â after he playing 46 gross and returned 32 net.
Presenting the gifts to the beneficiaries, Captain of the Golf Club, Major General Samson Jiya, said the reward was to appreciate the participants in the outgoing year for their efforts in contributing to the growth of the golf club.
“The club was actually established sometime in 2017 and it has been our passion and our desire to give to our caddies, our professional workers and the general workers of this esteemed club. To recognise them and to appreciate them for their trust, their sincerity and dedication to their duties.
“Members miss some items like their mobile phones, some other items and these less-privileged boys and girls, in trust, bring those things back and we recognise them. We just felt, as a duty from the club, we should reward them as a form of encouragement to them to do more,” General Jiya told Sporting Tribune.
Also, the Lady captain of the Club, Staff Sergeant Maureen Apute, said the items would make the recipients contribute more to the overall interest of the club.
“It’s a yearly event. Aside from the club doing this, we still have individual members that reach out to the caddies, especially those who have performed extremely well. So it’s our normal routine that we do here.
“Asides that, now that they are on holidays, they come to the golf course to work so it is a way of us also showing the parents that their coming here is not a waste of time,” Apute said.
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