IBB Golf Course Billed for More Transformations
Hole number four of the IBB International Golf and country Club in Abuja has undergone a major change with the felling of the obstructing tree from the tee-box. But the new captain of the club, Mr Gambo Hamza says that the course layout would witness more changes in the next couple of months.
According to him; “the course has been played for the past fifteen years and some of the fairways are becoming monotonous especially if you are a regular at the club. And it is known world wide that restructuring makes the club newer and polishes the challenges the course has to offer.
“In fact courses continue to be renewed and as you can see many that thought the obstructing tree at hole four was the problem. They discovered it was not. Because without the tree now, the hole still brand stroke index one (the most difficult) on the course.
“It is because the water hazard has really come to play now, and that is the beauty of the game and the golf course design. When you think you have conquered it, you face new challenge and that is the beauty of IBB Golf course.”
Some of the other changes include a new tee-box on the hole eighteen which gives a clearer view of the hole’s fairway and if not careful, can pose intimating threat for homeward bound players. At the last PGA event on the course (CMCL Open Golf Championship) the hole was the grave yard of greedy players and also rewarded skillfulness and patience.
There are also on-going change on hole fourteen. Where the right bunker is being dug deeper and expanded, in all, the long par four pose a new challenge for bad short game players.
The IBB International Golf course was commissioned over fifteen years ago and built by the federal government. It is also the first all-green standard golf course that the country had, and as at now is still the most prestigious golf facility that the country boast of. It is a par 72 Golf course with over 2,000 golf membership with players from all walks of life. It has hosted the three editions of Nigerian Open in 1997, 1998 and 1999 out of the twenty eight editions of the event.
Hole number four of the IBB International Golf and country Club in Abuja has undergone a major change with the felling of the obstructing tree from the tee-box. But the new captain of the club, Mr Gambo Hamza says that the course layout would witness more changes in the next couple of months.
According to him; “the course has been played for the past fifteen years and some of the fairways are becoming monotonous especially if you are a regular at the club. And it is known world wide that restructuring makes the club newer and polishes the challenges the course has to offer.
“In fact courses continue to be renewed and as you can see many that thought the obstructing tree at hole four was the problem. They discovered it was not. Because without the tree now, the hole still brand stroke index one (the most difficult) on the course.
“It is because the water hazard has really come to play now, and that is the beauty of the game and the golf course design. When you think you have conquered it, you face new challenge and that is the beauty of IBB Golf course.”
Some of the other changes include a new tee-box on the hole eighteen which gives a clearer view of the hole’s fairway and if not careful, can pose intimating threat for homeward bound players. At the last PGA event on the course (CMCL Open Golf Championship) the hole was the grave yard of greedy players and also rewarded skillfulness and patience.
There are also on-going change on hole fourteen. Where the right bunker is being dug deeper and expanded, in all, the long par four pose a new challenge for bad short game players.
The IBB International Golf course was commissioned over fifteen years ago and built by the federal government. It is also the first all-green standard golf course that the country had, and as at now is still the most prestigious golf facility that the country boast of. It is a par 72 Golf course with over 2,000 golf membership with players from all walks of life. It has hosted the three editions of Nigerian Open in 1997, 1998 and 1999 out of the twenty eight editions of the event.
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