2018 winners of the GCB Golf Competitions Leagues, Prof. BK Baiden and Mrs. Felicity Okyei-Gyeabour successfully defended their trophies for 2019 in the Men and Ladies categories. At the end of year event of the Royal Golf Club, Kumasi, the pair were once again crowned at the awards dinner held at the clubhouse.
In the Men’s category, Prof Baiden, Head of Operations at RGCK, accumulated 108 pts from 19 handicap qualifying competitions to narrowly push Daniel Ntim to 2nd position who had 107 pts from 16 competitions.
Edward Prempeh, winner of the 2019 Latex Foam Monthly Medal League, came 3rd with 85 pts from 14 competitions. He was closely followed by Paul Chen with 83pts, from 15 competitions.
Mark Asiamah, the RGCK Competitions Secretary, took the 5th and last winning position with 78 pts from 21 competitions. All winners were given commensurate amounts of RGCK Cash vouchers usable at the club for course user fee and products at the bar.
Mrs. Okyei accumulated 236 pts from 18 competitions to win the ladies section for the second successive time. She was followed by Christabel Oppong who had a total of 116 pts from 9 competition.
Juddy Gyimah Bota took the 3rd and final position for the ladies with 111 pts from 11 competition. Winners present were similarly given RGCK Cash Vouchers for use at the bar and for golf.
Explaining the league system, which is in the second year of sponsorship from GCB bank, Mr. Mark Asiamah, the RGCK Competition Secretary, indicated that points were awarded to golfers in all handicap qualifying events (a total of 24) who finished within the first 12 positions.
The golfer with the highest accumulated points was crowned as winner. He further indicated that a number of games such as greensome, foursome, partners and similar handicap non-qualifying events were excluded in the computation.
In the main event of the day, MC Classic 2019, Charles Agyei Boateng of Sinapi Aba returned an impressive score of 66 net to win the 2019 Captains Prize. He also returned 42 points in the stableford computation to emerge the winner of the President Putter competition for 2019. Constance Awuni emerged the winner of the 2019 Lady Captain’s price after returning a net score of 71.
In the opening remarks at the awards ceremony, Mr Kwasi Attah-Antwi, Chairman of the Management Committee of the club recounted some of the successes chalked by the current administration and thanked all who patronize the club for their immense support and contribution to the development of the club.
He also used the opportunity to thank all who have contributed to the peaceful atmosphere at the club. He finally thanked the workers for their hard work in bringing the course to the highest possible standards seen in recent years.
Prof. Baiden thanked GCB Bank for their continued sponsorship of the league. He was hopeful that the mileage and popularity gained by the bank through the sponsorship will encourage them to continue. He used the occasion to encourage golfers to do more business with GCB Bank so that they will see the direct benefit of their sponsorship.
Submitted by The Royal Golf Club, Kumasi
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