{"id":3633,"date":"2018-12-23T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:19:55","slug":"how-olapade-held-off-torgah-to-win-tour-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/how-olapade-held-off-torgah-to-win-tour-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"How Olapade held off Torgah to win Tour Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday Olapade on\nSaturday held off a considerably tough field that featured the hitherto defending\nchampion and tournament favorite, Vincent Torgah to win the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday with this win, has\nfulfilled his dream of winning the Tour Championship after finishing at\n10-under par. This brings to a tally his fourth win on West Africa Golf Tour in\n2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201chit man\u201d began the\ntournament at 71. A second round 68 vaulted him to top of the leaderboard which\nhe graciously maintained through a third round of 68 and finally closed at 71. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I played fantastic\ngolf, putted very well, I was very calm at the course and hit the fairway a\nlot\u201d. Sunday Olapade intimated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close contender, Vincent Torgah went into the final round in hopes to repeat his famous last-days wonder which has seen him clinched lots trophies in the past.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sunday-.jpg?fit=655%2C539&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3644\" data-link=\"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/how-olapade-held-off-torgah-to-win-tour-championship\/sunday-4\/\" class=\"wp-image-3644\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He however only managed\nto shoot 1-over 73 to finish the championship at 4-under, a 6-shot yawning\ndistant from Sunday Olapade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless for the champion that he is and his impeccable records, the runner-up&nbsp;Torgah was crowned the ultimate West Africa Golf Tour Order of Merit champion for the second consecutive year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FB_IMG_1545672421016.jpg?fit=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3635\" data-link=\"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?attachment_id=3635\" class=\"wp-image-3635\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FB_IMG_1545672450354.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3636\" data-link=\"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?attachment_id=3636\" class=\"wp-image-3636\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift Willy, an overnight\nleader on day one shot 2-over on final day to close his campaign at 1-over par\nfor the third spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitor Mapwanya posted\n1-over par on day four to finish the tournament at 2-over par to settle for the\nfourth place while Mohammed Liman shot a 72-course par on day fourth and 4-over\nfor the tournament for fifth place. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olapade and Torgah equaled\nin number of victories in the 2018 West Africa Golf Tour. The Nigerian delivered\nvictories on the Port Harcourt Classic, B &amp; E, Nigeria@58 and Tour\nChampionship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent Torgah on the other\nhand won the Memorare, 1st October Championship,&nbsp;NDDC Pro-Am Championship\nand The Masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tour Championship is\nthe grande finale of the 2018 season and the very last tournament of the West\nAfrica Golf Tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West Africa Golf Tour\nis from this moment christened the AFRICAN TOUR to project the growth and\ninclusiveness of the tournament by featuring golfers from other African countries.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the office of\nThe African Tour, first season will be inaugurated with the FCT Classic\ntournament to be held from 20 to 23 February 2019 at IBB International Golf and\nCountry Club in Abuja, Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the eve of the tournament, players will have the opportunity to play the Qualifying School, the last chance to secure African Tour card for the 2019 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sunday-2.jpg?fit=761%2C580&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3645\" data-link=\"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/how-olapade-held-off-torgah-to-win-tour-championship\/sunday-2-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-3645\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Story by TheGolfer Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture Credit: WAGT  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Olapade on Saturday held off a considerably tough field that featured the hitherto defending champion and tournament favorite, Vincent Torgah to win the Tour Championship. Sunday with this win, has fulfilled his dream of winning the Tour Championship after finishing at 10-under par. This brings to a tally his fourth win on West Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-golf","8":"category-featured","9":"category-golf-news","10":"category-rankings"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33995547_2079343185413760_8226936733669785600_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}