The Celebrity Golf Club at Tema in Ghana has hosted 14 at 16 July 2023, the 9th edition of the Ghana Ladies Amateur Open. Among the players at the start of the competition, a Beninese, Eunice Alice Couthon, licensed by the Beninese Golf Federation. Its presence in Ghana follows an invitation sent to the Beninese Golf Federation by the Ghanaian Federation organizing the event..
Indeed, during the competition, the Beninese was able to compete against other players in the sub-region. So sportingly, Eunice Alice Couthon did not dominate the competition, she was nevertheless enriched by a great experience in the golfing world.
The Ghana Ladies Amateur Open, although an amateur competition, is an open door to the professional world, the winner of the tournament goes directly to professional golf and integrates the classification of the International Federation.
Since its creation, the Beninese Golf Federation has set out to lay the foundations of the discipline in Benin. Between detection, training of trainers and training camps the federation has worked to provide Benin with a good repertoire of players.
The presence of Eunice Alice Couthon at the Tema competition is therefore the beginning of a new era., that of the participation and representativeness of Benin on the international scene.
After the Ghana Ladies Amateurs Open, other competitions will welcome other Beninese competitors. What is certain, the march towards the inking of golf in Benin is following its course and as a good guide, the Beninese golf federation is playing its part to achieve the objectives..