Business executives show golf skills as firm marks 20th anniversary with tourney

They may be chieftains and arrowheads of blue chip firms from across the country, but their heavy portfolios off the course did not stop them from showing the immense golfing skills, which they are endowed with.

This was as executives of at least 40 firms exchanged swings at the Asset & Resource Management (ARM) Company Limited 20th Anniversary Golf Tournament, which took place Thursday at the Lakowe Lakes Golf and Country Club, Lekki, Lagos State.

Firms that vied for the ultimate diadem, the ARM Director’s Cup included ExxonMobil, Chevron, Addax Petroleum, Peugeot Citroen, Guarantee Trust Bank, Deux Projects Limited and MTN, Stanbic IBTC, Sahara Oil, Total Oil, Starwood Hotels and Berger Paint.

Others were Mainstreet Bank, Sea Bulk Nigeria, Interswitch, Airtel, Custodian and Allied Insurance and CMCL Golf Tours Ltd.

At the end of the keenly contested encounter, with a 60 netscore garnered over 18 holes, Team Mens’ Clinic Nigeria did enough to lift the trophy, while Peugeot/Citroen, with a 62 netscore finished second and Deux Projects Limited ended the day in third place.

Addax Petroleum, and Guarantee Trust Bank completed the top five places.

The tourney, which format was Team stroke play (best net score per hole), saw the better gross score for the hole counting for the total team score.

The corporate golf tournament had players organised in teams of two from each company competing for the ARM Directors Cup. Golfers with unofficial handicaps, were given a handicap by the tournament director based on 18 for men and 24 for ladies or as otherwise instructed.

According to organisers, “the anniversary event, while a celebration of our momentous milestone, was intended to capitalise on the unique opportunity for ARM to give back to the society and our stakeholders.

One of the participants at the event described it as “a great opportunity to fraternize with friends, exercise the body and rejoice with an indigenous firm that has done well for itself, it staff members and its patrons.

He stressed that it was important for workers to find time to exercise their bodies and generally take their minds off official and economic worries. By doing so, he said good health would be guaranteed and the body rejuvenated for greater and even better performances.