{"id":1017002,"date":"2022-03-10T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/ghana-beats-nigeria-in-independence-golf\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:34:38","slug":"ghana-beats-nigeria-in-independence-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/10\/ghana-beats-nigeria-in-independence-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Beats Nigeria\u2026 In Independence Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ambassador Ibok-Ete Ibas (L) receiving a certificate of appreciation from Captain Kwesi Amoafo-Yeboah and\u00a0 Dr Asimenu, Planning Committee Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Achimota Golf Club hosted and won the Independence Cup against their Nigerian opponents \u2013 IBB Golf and Country Club. The country\u2019s premier golf club posted 25 points against Nigeria\u2019s 16 points in a keenly contested play from March 5 to 7.<\/p>\n<p>Day three of the well organised independence tourney saw golfers from both Ghana and Nigeria play for individual glory, with the following golfers emerging victorious.<\/p>\n<p>Playing handicaps 11.9, John Gaba, Charles Darkwa and Kwaku Asare Ofosuhene triumphed in that order in the men\u2019s Group A category, while Prosper Osei Wusu, Edem Oyo-Ita and Dennis Addo triumphed in the Men\u2019s Group B in that order.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Women\u2019s Group A, Floria Hurtubise, playing on handicap 18.2, emerged tops in the women\u2019s Group A, while Vastie Amoafo-Yeboah and Beatrice Vetsch-Bempong followed in that sequence. In Group B,<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Jiang Yang (Handicap indexes 18.3 to 54), won the first prize, with Liping Wang and Lu ThiJefcott Kim Thao following in that order.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Ibok-Ete Ibas, graced the event as the special guest of honour. The cup was sponsored by KASS Towers, Samsung, MultiChoice, I-ZONE, Lucozade and GIPC.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Ibok-Ete Ibas (L) receiving a certificate of appreciation from Captain Kwesi Amoafo-Yeboah and\u00a0 Dr Asimenu, Planning Committee Chairman Ghana\u2019s Achimota Golf Club hosted and won the Independence Cup against their Nigerian opponents \u2013 IBB Golf and Country Club. The country\u2019s premier golf club posted 25 points against Nigeria\u2019s 16 points in a keenly contested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1017004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1518,85,2384,4077,633],"class_list":["post-1017002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beats","tag-ghana","tag-golf","tag-independence","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017002","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=1017002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}