By Daily Sports on January 6, 2016

Golfers at Ikoyi Golf Club in Lagos have commenced preparation for the biggest charity event on the club’s calendar – the DOAM Foundation Charity Golf Tournament, scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2016.

The tournament, which has provided a platform for members and corporate bodies to support social causes in the last six years, features a qualifier event scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938.

Chairman of the tournament’s Organising Committee, Pat Bassey, who has coordinated all previous editions, said that the event connects well with the golfing community because it fills a vacuum that a number of golfers have yearned for over time.

“We have a huge number of golfers who need the platform that this event provides, so that they can connect with the indigent and the less privileged in the society. The increasing interest, year after year, only goes to show that their expectations are being met,” he said.

Daily Sports gathered that over 200 players are expected during the qualifier to vie for slots at the final of the event, the committee members have informed. Players who scale through the one-day qualifier would be drawn alongside invited players and guests at the final of the tournament in February.

The DOAMF Charity Golf funds are channeled to support social causes in the society.

Bassey said in a statement made available to Daily Sports: “In the last five years, projects supported include renovation/rehabilitation of Health Centres in rural communities (Mowe in Ogun State and Amaimo in Imo State), building and equipping an Accident and Trauma Centre at Mowe in Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State, Sickbay and Library facilities (in various schools across the country), Skills Acquisition for mothers of OVC students and free medical screening and treatment to the less privileged in rural communities, amongst others.”

According to Bassey, “The interest to be part of the coming edition of the event has been overwhelming and, we are doing everything possible to accommodate everybody as the underlying purpose here is touching the lives of the less privileged in the community we all belong to.

“For us, progress is measured in both quality and quantity: the quality of the value we pass down to the beneficiaries of the causes and the number of people we are able to reach overall. This year, our goal is to surpass whatever we have done in the past in these areas. So we need more support and we have set out to work accordingly.”

•Photo courtesy of sportingdan.blogspot.com shows some participants at the 2015 DOAM Foundation Charity Golf Tournament.

Source Daily Sports

Posted January 6, 2016

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