Today there are many golf courses in Nigeria with lots international tournaments that attract visitors to this country
There is the urgent need to establish more golf courses in Nigeria and some of these reasons are today golf tourism has given lots of revenue and helped to promote the tourism potential of many countries that have explored its usefulness and Nigeria as a fast developing country with lots of golf golf courses and tournaments also has to improve it and the need to do this is very urgent There are many reasons for this and below are some of them
To generate more revenue to the Nigerian tourism
To attract more golf tourists to Nigeria to boast our daily revenue
To further enhance our environment and surroundings and preserve our ecosystem.Golf tourism have a natural beautifying effect on the environment
due the presence of the greens
Esravos golf course in Niger Delta area of Nigeria
To promote more golf tournaments in Nigeria both local and international ones
consultation of Trent Jones golf course architecture in any golf development in the nigeria s this will be very good considering the fact that Trent Jones is one of the worlds best golf course architecture designers and example is the Playa Dorado golf course in Domican Republic below developed by the company
consultation of Trent Jones Golf course Architecture (USA) in the construction and development of golf courses in Nigeria Trent Jones has developed some of the worlds best golf course architectures of international recognition around the world
golf tourism is very valuable in the tourism potentials of a country like nigeria.golf tourism alone can generate lots of revenue that other topurism types can not bring about and may not be able to match due its versatility in income generation for a country like Nigeria seeking to boast her tourism potentials
take for example a classical case of a golf tourists coming into Nigeria to participate in a golf tournament at the IBB Golf course in Abuja the Nigeria capital.he has top to lodge in a hotel and pay for other services such as transport,feeding and visit other sites of attraction in the Nigeria capital, Abuja and these activities ensures the regular generation of income from a single tourists ,hence the need to further boast golf tourism in Nigeria
In Nigewria today there is the urgent need to enhance golf tourism and the desire is quite impressive as this will further boast the Nigeria Gross Domestic Product(GDP)due to the steady inflow of revenue from visiting foreign golf tourists.below is a list osf some golf copurses in Nigeria
NAMES ADDRESS AND LOCATIONS STATES
1 Sanky Golf Resort,Ilado-Odo Lagos State
2. Odogbo Golf Club, Military Cantonement,Ojo,Ibadan Oyo State
3. Hilltop Golf Course,Oke-Mesan,Abeokuta Ogun State
4. Aba Township Club,Aba Abia State
5. Ibom Golf Club,Uyo Akwa Ibom State
6. Bauchi Golf Club,Bauchi Bauchi State
7. Army Cantonment Club, Makurdi Benue State
8. St. Marks, Akpegede, Otukpo Delta State
9. Calabar Golf Club, Calabar Cross River State
10. Ibori Golf and Country Club, Asaba Delta State
11. Shell Golf Club, Ogunnu, Warri Delta State
12. Sapele Golf Club, Sapele Delta State
13. Abakaliki Golf Course, Abakaliki Ebonyi State
14. Benin Golf Club, Benin Edo State
15. The NIFOR Course, Benin Edo State
16. Ado-Ekiti Golf Club, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State
17. Enugu Golf Club, Enugu Enugu State
18. Makurdi Golf Club, Makurdi Benue State
19. IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja Abuja
20. Ashaka Cement Golf Club, Gombe Gombe State
21. Arsenal Golf Course, Owerri Imo State
22. Oguta Lake Resort Golf Club, Oguta Imo State
23. The Royal Golf Course, Dutse Jigawa State
24. Kaduna Golf Course, Kaduna Kaduna State
25. NDA Golf Club, Kaduna Kaduna State
26. Royal Golf Course, Bida Niger State
27. Jaji Golf Club, Kaduna Kaduna State
28. Zaria Golf Club, Zaria Kaduna State
29. Katsina Golf Club, Katsina Katsina State
30. The Confluence Golf Club, Lokoja Kogi State
31. Kano Golf Club, Kano Kano State
32. Ilorin Golf Club, Ilorin Kwara State
33. Ikoyi Golf Club, Ikoyi Lagos State
34. Ikeja Golf Club, Ikeja Lagos State
35. Dolphin Golf Club, Kirikiri Lagos State
IKOYI GOLF CLUB IN LAGOS IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA
To enhance golf tourism in nigeria i think that the Federal government should enact a law compelling all Five star and three hotels and resorts in the country to establish golf courses in them for the ones that currently do not have golf courses in them.Not quite long ago the federal government directed all hotels to be registered with the Nigeria Tourism Board(NTB) and this is quite commendable and the same direction should be to have golf courses by hotels and resorts in Nigeria
I wish to telll you that you can come back to this site and check later as i will give another post om golf tournaments in Nigeria and the periods in the year these are held.also i want you to leave a comment for me
