Golfers gear up for PGA Masters June 6-8

• Alhaji Ahmed
Padori

The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Ghana is set to host its flagship PGA Masters on June 6–8 at the Damang Golf Club in the Western region.

This follows the successful organisation of the Golden Classic event held at the Centre of the World Golf Course in Tema which served as the first qualifier to December’s main event in Damang.

Ahead of the June date to secure qualification, top golfers across the country are gearing up for the upcoming PGA Masters event which is the second in the series of the qualifiers for the PGA Open 2024.

The qualifiers dubbed ‘Road to Damang’ is to enable organisers select 22 top players for the December showdown.

Alhaji Ahmed Padori, PGA’s Director of Operations, has indicated in a statement that the tournament was very crucial for players who are outside the top 10 on the order of merit table and equally those within.

“Due to the situation at hand,the stakes have become very high and stakeholders within the golfing fraternity are expecting fierce competition among the players including good results,” he said.

Expected to heighten competition are top notch, golfers like Vincent Torgah, Kojo Barni, Augustine Manasseh, Maxwell Owusu Bonsu, Emos Korblah and Brave Mensah plus a few of the new faces among the junior professionals who are knocking hard on the doors of the senior professionals.

Alhaji Ahmed Padori said that he was expecting a tough and competitive tournament.

“I have picked up information that the golfers are gearing up for the competition with daily training and I can only hope that the level will always improve as we have been witnessing during past competitions.”

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