The Smokin Hills Golf Resort, located within the vicinity of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, will host businessmen and professionals for the 2026 Business Network Golf Tournament on Saturday, February 21, The PUNCH reports.
The tournament is sponsored by Bode Adediji Partnership and Kontinental Developers Limited, Lagos-based firms of estate surveyors and valuers, property consultants and developers.
The event is aimed at bringing together a crop of businessmen and professionals, including artisans worldwide.
Adediji, a renowned estate surveyor and valuer, and a great lover of the game of golf, said the tournament is “our little way to contribute to the sporting community”.
“There is a school of thought that tries to establish a linkage between the growth in golf players and infrastructural facilities, on one hand and the overall socio-economic progress of a nation, on the other hand,” he said.
Making reference to countries like Japan, China, South Korea, the United States and Italy, where the game of golf thrives, he said it is not possible to have the game in an environment of backwardness and poverty.
On the relevance of golf to business growth and development, Adediji explained that there are two major reasons why the game is being promoted.
“The main reason is that it falls within the aspect we call leisure and recreation management, which is an integral part of business and professional developments worldwide,” he said.
On the choice of the Smokin Hills Golf Resort for the business networking, he said, Elizade Golf Resorts, ‘The Smokin Hills’, in Ilara Mokin, Ondo State, was developed by Ondo-born High Chief and Chairman of Elizade Motors, Chief Michael Adeojo.
The 18-hole golf resort is the latest addition to Nigeria’s list of growing golf courses.
Adediji said it is one of the best courses in Nigeria today, noting that its sheer aesthetic value surpasses first-time visitors’ expectations.
“Golfers who have hit the course are quick to compare it with IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja and Le Meridien Ibom Golf Resort, Uyo, the only Nigerian courses with world-class attributes,” he said.
“Close by is the Elizade University, and it is a course that takes patience and the ability to be creative around the Green. You could see this from the several bunkers and huge trees that dot the course.
“The course is completely playable, even to a weekend hacker. Elizade University and the golf course are capable of handling any course anyone would think of in Nigeria, and in comparison with other similar universities/colleges across the globe.”
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