16-year-old Iyeneobong Essien has emerged second place winner at the 2022 Champion of Champions World Golf Championship Invitational in Northern Ireland.
The teenager competed in the 16 to 19 years category between July 26 to 28, 2022 at the Invitational; playing on two challenging courses, the Faldo Course and the Castle Hume Course at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Iyeneobong Essien is one teenager seeking to put Nigeria’s name on the map in the world of golf. She has competed on several continents and currently tops the junior player cadre in Nigeria.
Winning her first medal at five, she has added almost two dozen more medals to her coffers and has represented Nigeria 11 times at tournaments in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Essien was the only teenager among 177 golfers at the 2019 Nigeria Ladies Golf Open Championship where she clinched 10th place.
