WAGR lists Firstbank Amateur Open Golf Championship

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Nigeria’s premier and leading&NewLine;financial services provider&comma; First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that&NewLine;the FirstBank Lagos Amateur Golf Championship scheduled to Tee-Off on Friday&comma;&NewLine;15 November 2019 is now listed amongst the golf tournaments in the&nbsp&semi;World&NewLine;Amateur Golf Ranking &lpar;WAGR&rpar;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A statement from the bank made available to OpenLife states that the WAGR is offered by the R&amp&semi;A and the United States Golf Association as a global service to golf&period;  Through incorporation and assessment worldwide of both amateur and professional events&comma; WAGR™ encourages the international development of the competitive game&period; Since 1894&comma; FirstBank has continued to promote the growth and development of sports in Nigeria&period; <a>Apart from the Lagos Amateur Golf Championship which the Bank has supported for 57 years&comma; the Bank has sponsored the Georgian Cup of the Kaduna Polo Tournament for 100 years&period; Other sports supported by the Bank include&semi; the Dala Hardcourt Tennis&comma; Kano for 32 years and for over a combined 30 years&comma; the Bank has sponsored and owned the popular Elephant Girls Basketball club – which has remained a dominant force in the Nigerian Women Basketball league for many years – and the Elephant boys football club&period; The highpoint of these is the 2019 100th unbroken years of sponsoring the Kaduna Polo Tournament&comma; widely attributed as the longest running sports sponsorship in the world and a Guinness Book of Records potential&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 56-hole golf tournament&comma; to be played over three days would be rounded off with a grand finale and awards ceremony on Sunday&comma; 17 November 2019&period; Other activities to be held in the course of the tournament are the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Professional Coaching Clinic” to nurture the skills of young and upcoming talents and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Beat the Pro Skills competition”&period; The 2018 edition which had over 260 golfers in attendance was won by Sam Njoroge from Kenyan&period; Speaking on the Bank’s sponsorship of the tournament&comma; Dr&period; Adesola Adeduntan&comma; Chief Executive Officer&comma; First Bank of Nigeria Limited said&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are excited at the giant strides achieved with the FirstBank Lagos Amateur Open Golf Championship&period; The championship is now one of the international golf events where all amateur golfers worldwide can now participate and amass points to aid their WAGR rankings&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;FirstBank has been in the business of supporting sports&NewLine;in Nigeria throughout its 125 years of existence&period; We have partnered with&NewLine;individuals and institutions to provide support&comma; not only in the sports arena&comma;&NewLine;but also in Education&comma; the Arts and Small and Medium Enterprises”&comma; he&NewLine;concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;