{"id":348392,"date":"2025-10-01T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348392"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:51:03","slug":"golf-olapade-okoko-reign-supreme-at-lakowe-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348392","title":{"rendered":"Golf: Olapade, Okoko reign supreme at Lakowe Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria \u2018s ace golfer last Sunday, September 28,\u00a0 won the professional round of the 2025 Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic with an impressive\u00a0 ten-under par score in 54 holes to win the event.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Golf Manager of Lakowe Lakes Golf and Country Estate, Femi Olagbenro, said Olapade had a brilliant spell at the event and came close to breaking the course\u2019s 54-hole record held by Vincent Torgah.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe every player showing up at Lakowe Lakes Golf Club puts in an extra effort to match the pedigree of the course and the tough field that is always on parade during at each Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic event.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025 event paraded some of the best professional players across\u00a0 West Africa, including Emos Korblah and Barry Yaw from Ghana, Oche Odoh, Kamalu Bako, Gift Willy, Godwin Okoko, Michael Ubi, and Francis Epe. This year\u2019s event is supported by Oando Nigeria, GAC Motors, Providus Bank, ARM Holding Company, Mixtafrica, Newmark, International Breweries, were among others.<\/p>\n

Olapade rounds were 69, 65, and 72 for the three days to beat Korblah with a five-stroke margin and pocket the 5 million naira purse and an additional ARM champion bonus of 2.5 million totalling 7.5 million for his victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very satisfying win, given the effort I have put into my game in the past few months. I have just come back from a training round in Kenya. It\u2019s been a very challenging routine, which is why this is satisfying. I want to thank everyone who has supported me this while, and believe in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Youngster Godwin Okoko, also made the winner\u2019s list with a third-place finish in the professional round while also leading his amateur team members to be crowned the Team Event winners. The members included Ikechukwu Boniface, David Maji, and Frances Omaruaye.<\/p>\n

In the Team Event, Kingsley Oparaku led Roland Alexander, Terry Paul and Abe Ayodeji to the runner-up position.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Chairman of Lakowe Lakes Golf Estate Deji Alli said that the game of golf has impacted on his person, and outlook of business for Lakowe Lakes project, despite the challenges of running a world-class facility like Lakowe Lakes Golf Club.<\/p>\n

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Coach Pledges To Develop\u00a0 Wrestling In South South<\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s national team wrestling coach,\u00a0Purity Akuh<\/a>, has pledged total commitment to the development and growth of wrestling\u00a0 after securing a\u00a0 seat\u00a0 as the South West zone representative seat in the board of Nigeria Wrestling Federation(NWF).<\/p>\n

Speaking to journalists after the election, Purity vowed to support\u00a0 wrestling in the South West after he pulled\u00a0 the available six votes from the\u00a0 six states in a dominant fashion.<\/p>\n

The UWW Educator noted that sports is a veritable instrument of reducing crime and unemployment if optimally pursued, hence his total drive to see it develop in the South West.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, sports generate big foreign exchange for countries all over the world. This and many other embedded issues surrounding and affecting sports, particularly in wrestling, will be addressed passionately and with all sincerity of purpose,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0 thanked the President Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Honourable Daniel Igali, who was his national team coach in his wrestling days and the entire wrestling family for counting him worthy to be elected as NWF board member.<\/p>\n

Purity also appreciated the governor of Ondo state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and the state Honourable commissioner for Sports Development for their overwhelming support.<\/p>\n

Assuring that the experience he acquired as a wrestler and having gone through technical trainings to be certified as UWW Educator will be made manifest, bringing to the NWF board technical insights among other qualities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank the governor of my state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the commissioner and my mentor, Daniel Igali, for the tremendous support I have received and the people of South West in supporting this mandate. Gratitude is not enough to express how elated I am to serve at this capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria \u2018s ace golfer last Sunday, September 28,\u00a0 won the professional round of the 2025 Lakowe Lakes Golf Classic with an impressive\u00a0 ten-under par score in 54 holes to win the event. Golf Manager of Lakowe Lakes Golf and Country Estate, Femi Olagbenro, said Olapade had a brilliant spell at the event and came close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348419,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348392\/revisions\/348419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}