{"id":1250898,"date":"2022-11-15T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T11:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/pga-cedrella-open-tees-off-tomorrow-gh%c2%a2100k-purse-up-for-grabs\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T11:05:24","slug":"pga-cedrella-open-tees-off-tomorrow-gh%c2%a2100k-purse-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/15\/pga-cedrella-open-tees-off-tomorrow-gh%c2%a2100k-purse-up-for-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Cedrella Open Tees Off Tomorrow &#8230;GH\u00a2100k Purse Up For Grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mark Coffie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second on the series for \u2018The Road to Obotan\u2019, which is \u2018Cedrella Open Championship\u2019, will tee off at the Safari Valley golf course at Adukrom tomorrow to Saturday in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p>The championship is second in the series of \u2018The Road to Obotan\u2019 tournament after the first tournament, \u2018Mahogany Open\u2019, in March early this year in Samreboi.<\/p>\n<p>The championship will see over 70 professional golfers across the country. The competition also features amateur event besides the flagship regular and Seniors Professionals competing to secure their spots in the Obotan Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>A prize money of GH\u00a2100,000.00 is at stake, with winner of the regular side receiving GH\u00a217,000.00. Second placed will go home with GH\u00a210,000.00 and the third GH\u00a27,000.00. In the seniors category, the winner will pocket GH\u00a25,000.00, with first and second runner-up taking home GH\u00a23,500.00 and third runner-up goes home with GH\u00a22,800.00 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tournament Director, Akwesi Prempeh, said the course is ready to host the much anticipated golf championship and all golfers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course is very fine and in a beautiful shape. It\u2019s a small course but really shaped well, every golfer will love playing on the course but it\u2019s very small in size, so every golfer need much experience to play on such course because it comes with hazards and bankers to trap your play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not have the long drive ability but good putting greens to sink your balls,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>West African number one pro golfer, Vincent Torgah, a member from Center of the World and teaching pro at Samartex Golf Club, who won the first Obotan tournament, would have to compete strongly against celebrated players in Africa such as Emos Korblah and other top Ghanaian golfers like Kojo Barnni, Lucky Ayisah, Maxwell Owusu Bonsu, Francis Torgah, Kwame Ligbidi, and young golfer who is leaving no stone unturned Augustine Manasseh Agbenene, if he really want to defend his title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From The Sports Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Coffie \u00a0 The second on the series for \u2018The Road to Obotan\u2019, which is \u2018Cedrella Open Championship\u2019, will tee off at the Safari Valley golf course at Adukrom tomorrow to Saturday in the Eastern Region. The championship is second in the series of \u2018The Road to Obotan\u2019 tournament after the first tournament, \u2018Mahogany Open\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28908,15593,3864,722,615,9075,5629,1074],"class_list":["post-1250898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cedrella","tag-gh100k","tag-grabs","tag-open","tag-pga","tag-purse","tag-tomorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250898","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=1250898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}