The Orubebe Invitational Golf Champion, OIGC that will be held in Sapele, Delta State is about to shape the way things are being done in Sapele. A city once regarded as the most famous in the Niger Delta Region. Sapele is an ancient city that is enveloped in several levels of memories ranging from Port Services, West Africa’s most popular Wood Industry, AT & P, Sapele Athletic Club and others too numerous to mention.

Sapele is a city that is strategically located in a place that most road trip travellers must have to visit the city. It is a peaceful, rich with culture and awesome place to stay.

The OIGC is set to bring about change in the city while focusing on restoring its lost glory and bringing hope and aspirations to the good people of the land. It is indeed the turn of Sapele with the wind of transformation in Nigeria to experience its own portion of transformation and progress.  This event will bring thousands together to enjoy the game of golf and also investors to tap into the potentials in the land.

Sapele Athletic Club where this event will be held was originally known as SAPELO GOLF CLUB, it was started in 1898 by a coterie of resident European sailors and captains of ships who traversed the Atlantic Ocean from the United Kingdom down to River Ethiope which has its source from Umuaja, a village in the present Ukwani LGA of Delta State.

In 1913, a major and spectacular event took place which marked the turning point in the history of the club. The Management of Elder Dempster Company Ltd. donated a giant trophy to SAPELO GOLF CLUB to further boost the interest of member in the game.

That singular event was later to become a watershed in the developmental history of the club. The present site of the club was originally conceived as a golf club. It was originally named “SAPELO GOLF CLUB” as is evidently inscribed on the trophy of THE ELDER DEMPSTER CUP, donated by Elder Dempster co. Ltd. for the first golf tournament in 1913.

The tournament was held subsequently from 1914 with the names of the competition winners engraved on the trophy. The relic of the trophy is still in the archives of the club till date.

This is a dream that Elder Orubebe is bidding to reinvent in Sapele. A  land which many have neglected and abandoned is a land that Elder Orubebe has seen her potentials and has decided to champion a history cause for Change and Transformation. and the rare attributes of ORUBEBE who sees beyond the present state of the once famous city of SAPELE hence the choice of SAPELE Golf Course in commemoration of the centenary celebration marking 100yrs of NIGERIA’S Unity and SAPELE been the first Golf Course in Nigeria since 2013.