By Victor Okoye
Abuja, May 10, 2024 (NAN) Over 100 amateur and professional players are ready to compete for honours at the second eTranzact Golf Classic set to tee off in few days, over a hundred professional and amateur golfers are expected to feature in this year’s event at the IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja.
With the total prize money increased to N20 million, Niyi Toluwalope, the Managing Director of eTranzact International, has said the sponsor is committed to promoting golf in the continent.
“When we partnered with the PGD Tours last year, we promised that the Classic will provide a platform to promote and elevate professional and amateur golfing in Africa, while fostering business to business collaborations, and facilitating partnerships between business and government,” Toluwalope said.
“This year, we are re-affirming our commitment to this noble sporting event, and all that it has to offer. We have taken our support a notch higher by introducing some exciting changes around the event. The increased prize money is also a further demonstration of our commitment to make the Classic more competitive and attract the absolute best of golfers to perform at this stage,” he said.
“We are also excited to be bringing the competition to the beautiful, serene, and hilly environment of the prestigious golf course, the IBB course,” he also said.
According to Toluwalope, eTranzact involvement in sports is a demonstration of the organisation’s resolve to keep supporting and providing innovative solutions and platforms to help businesses to succeed in the marketplace.
“This is in line with our vision, which is to be the preferred integrated financial technology platform for merchants and consumers. We are leveraging on our homegrown, world-class switching and paymentprocessing platform to facilitate business successes across all sectors of the economy,” he further said.
Toluwalope also noted that the organisation aims to empower and enable financial technology institutions for financial services eco system in the country and beyond.
Meanwhile, players from Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Togo, Senegal and Nigeria are expected to feature at the four-day event which holds from May 15 to 18.(NAN)
