Airtel sponsors 83rd Ghana Golf tournament

Telecommunication brand of the year, Airtel Ghana, has been named title sponsor of this year’s prestigious Ghana Golf Open 2015 being organised by the Ghana Golf Association.

The three day championship is powered by Airtel Business, the business oriented sub brand of Airtel Ghana which is leading the drive in Ghana to provide next generation business communications solutions to enterprises – small, medium and large.

The event, the flagship golf championship on the Ghanaian golf calendar comes off at the newly refurbished Achimota Golf Club, from Saturday 19th – Monday 21st September, 2015 under the distinguished patronage of Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II as the special guest of honour.

The Championship will showcase Ghanaian talents, pitted against the best from the Sub region - Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

The National Director of Golf for Ghana and prolific PGA Golf professional Mr. Steven Wilson expressed his excitement and expectation for the championship.

He said “We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome Airtel Ghana as a sponsor of the Ghana Golf Open. The Ghana Golf Open has a tremendous future with Airtel Ghana as the title sponsors and we look forward to many more years of this partnership culminating into successful championship events.”

Maxwell Dodd, Director of Airtel Business said, “Airtel Ghana has over the years been consistent in contributing to sports in Ghana through our grassroots football development program – Airtel Rising Stars and in recent times headline sponsor for the Accra Millennium Marathon.

This role as headline sponsor of the Golf Open will not only add to our portfolio of sports commitments but will give us the opportunity to extend the benefits of Airtel Business’ end to end business solutions to executives from different sectors of the economy.”

He continued “we’re excited to sponsor the Ghana Golf Open, to showcase Airtel Business Solutions to golf fans whilst providing an atmosphere for them to relax and have fun and to connect with each.

In addition to the visibility of being title sponsor, we’re confident that Airtel Business will find the Ghana Golf Open to be an extremely effective and valuable marketing and business-to-business platform. We very much look forward to working with the Ghana Golf Association this year as we become more and more integrated with golf as a recreational activity and most importantly a platform for business marketing and networking”.

Airtel Ghana, which has demonstrated its commitment towards developing sports in Ghana through its sponsorship of the Accra Millennium Marathon, the huge investment in its grassroot football talent unearthing program – Airtel Rising Stars.

Airtel Business, a sub brand of the telecommunication giant, provides custom-made end-to-end business and enterprise solutions with cutting-edge technology that delivers great value propositions for all forms of businesses on the pillars of reliability, value driven and quality.

Airtel Ghana is capitalizing on its exceptional network capacity as well as its excellent reputation as the network of choice in Ghana to offer telecommunication solutions that will cater for all kinds of enterprise needs to boost the local business industry.

This year’s event seeks to nurture talent and assemble the nucleus of the National Golf Team for continental and world stage championships. The Championship is open to both Lady and Men Golfers.

Since the inception of the championship, early winners have been mainly expatriates, with the first Ghanaian winner being Sam Appiah of Kumasi in 1963 followed by David Abaloo of Achimota in 1971 and subsequently Ghanaians began to win in successive years such as Joe Dey, David Abaloo, Walter Degbe, Charles Quarshie, Victor Brave Mensah, Amos Koblah, George Osei, Vincent Torgah and Kojo Bannieh.

Notable Lady Winners have been Bessy Hahermacher, who entered from Kenya, Mona Myers-Lamptey (nee Captan), Grace Afriyie and Felicity Okyei Gyeabour.

The attributes of Golf which are Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Confidence, Responsibility, Perseverance, Courtesy, Sportsmanship and Positive Judgement resonates with Airtel Ghana.