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Dignitaries in a pose after the launch<\/strong><\/p>\n About 50 professional golfers are currently battling it out on the Samartex Golf Course in the Western Region for whooping GH\u20b5100,000 prize money.<\/p>\n The first of four series of the Road to Obotan, dubbed \u2018Mahogany Open\u2019, was a shared vision and passion to project the sport of golf, give professional players more playing time, and develop young talents in the sport.<\/p>\n The four-day competition was opened to all valid members of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of Ghana.<\/p>\n Organised by Samartex Timber and Plywood Company Limited together with Safari Group, the competition is aimed at becoming the biggest professional golf tournament experience in the Western part of Africa.<\/p>\n Richard Nsenkyire, Managing Director of Samartex, explained that as a company, they want to develop talents, develop healthy living and develop sustainable living.<\/p>\n He said, after the \u2018Mahogany Open\u2019, which ends on Sunday, March 6, there would be the \u2018Cedrela Open\u2019, which would be the second in the tournament series to be played at the Safari Valley in June, followed by the \u2018Odum Open\u2019 at Samartex in September and finally the Obotan Tournament, which is the main event to be played in December at the Safari Valley.<\/p>\n \u201cThis concept is to give opportunity to all, and we have already started to harness and develop young talent, especially less privileged kids within the catchment working areas of Samartex and Safari Valley.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have already started by getting kids between the ages of eight and sixteen registered, and under training by some professional golfers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Lord Nana Tandoh, the Municipal Chief Executive of Amenfi West, commended the organisers for coming up with the event, and urged them to continue doing their best for the community.<\/p>\n He said such event improves the socio-economic activities of the community, therefore, more of such events should be hosted to encourage more people to visit the region.<\/p>\n Akwasi Prempeh, Tournament Director at PGA-Ghana, explained that the tournament would be based on a point system; therefore the golfer with the highest points after the four tournaments would be crowned the overall winner.<\/p>\n Dignitaries in a pose after the launch<\/p>\n From The Sports Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dignitaries in a pose after the launch About 50 professional golfers are currently battling it out on the Samartex Golf Course in the Western Region for whooping GH\u20b5100,000 prize money. The first of four series of the Road to Obotan, dubbed \u2018Mahogany Open\u2019, was a shared vision and passion to project the sport of golf, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[944,417,2384,3864,5627,722],"class_list":["post-1010602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-big","tag-cash","tag-golf","tag-grabs","tag-mahogany","tag-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}