Nigeria’s teenage golf sensation – Georgia Oboh will tomorrow compete in the first tournament on the Ladies European Tour (LET) at the 2019 Canon Sunshine Ladies Tour Open holding at the Irene Country Club in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Edo State-born golfer, who arrived in South Africa at the weekend alongside her father, Godfrey, who most times caddied for her in major competition.
The Sunshine Ladies Tour is Africa’s premier professional ladies golf tour with over 10 events in South Africa and the Canon Open is the tour’s first event of 2019.
An excited Oboh told Sportinglife.ng from Johannesburg that she was looking forward to the tee off being her first visit to the Rainbow nation. “I am so excited starting my first LET tournament in Africa especially in South Africa. The weather is friendly and the golf course is superb just like any course in Europe. I
am looking forward to have an exciting time and hope for the best in my first tournament in 2019,” she said.
Oboh will have to contend with 66-strong playing field that will feature former LPGA Tour champion Lee-Anne Pace, Sunshine Ladies Tour winners Ashleigh Buhai, Bertine (Strauss) Faber, Kim Williams, Monique Smit, Tandi Mc Callum and Nobuhle Dlamini from Swaziland, former LET winner Laurette Maritz, as well as 21 international campaigners from 13 countries.
A number of rookies will also be making their Sunshine Ladies Tour debut including 2018 Sanlam SA Women’s Stroke Play champion Casandra Hall.
Five-time Sunshine Ladies Tour champion Stacy Bregman is embracing the pressure that comes as defending champion as she prepares to tee it up in the Canon Open.
Bregman, who captured her first Sunshine Ladies Tour title in the Zambia Ladies Open five years ago, racked up victories in the Sun International Ladies Challenge, Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am and Cape Town Ladies Open in 2015. Last year she ended a three-year winning drought when a closing 71 at Pretoria Country Club helped her
towards a four under par total and four-shot victory for her fifth triumph.
Georgia is indeed looking forward to rub shoulders with the best after her professional debut win in Cote d’Ivoire at the 2018 Open Championships and she is quite happy to keep competing on the African continent promoting African ladies golf as her passion for the future.