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SILICON TOUR 113
All these Clubs charge a green fee of $8 per person during week days and $11per person weekends and holidays. ACHIMOTA GOLF CLUB This is one of the biggest in the country with about 87 Acres of land. The Achimota Golf Club is situated in a pleasant wooded country, some ten kilometers north of Accra in the grounds of Achimota School. About 75 minutes drive from the city center. Golf was played in Accra on not less than five nine hole course from the early part of this century. While the Achimota course was relatively late comer, it is the only one which has survived the building development which has changed Accra over some decades, from a sleepy center of colonial Administration to the present bustling commercial metropolis. The Gold Coast established Achimota School in 1927 as the Prince of Wales College and it happened that several of the early teaching staff of the school including the Principal had Scottish origins. They immediately lent strength to the Accra golfing community. However, the journey to the Accra courses took up valuable travelling time which could otherwise have been devoted to the Royal and Ancient Game of golf. The spacious grounds of the Achimota School were ideally suited to the layout of a golf course; and it is a well-known fact that wherever three or more British are gathered together outside their native land the first thing they do is to found a club. 'Staff Club" was therefore incorporated into the school's layout and it was eventually agreed that golf should be added to the School amenities. It was pointed out to the anti-malaria authorities as the time that the long grass and shrub surrounding the school constituted dangerous breeding grounds for mosquitoes and these should therefore be cleared and levelled.
The first tee was accros the road from the club house (situated near the School's present tennis courts), North of the Achimota School Hospital. The course ran down to Guggisberg Park (along the present 4th fairway) and finally finished around the present 3rd brown. A few years later the course was extended to 9 holes. Only guests of the school staff were invited to play at Achimota Golf Course but a few distinguished members of the community were made honorary memebers and this was considered a great honour. The Ghana Open Championship was first held at Achimota Golf Course in 1940.
As a result of this, thoughts towards an extension by another nineholes were considered and the school generously placed further land at the disposal of the club and work on the new nine holes started in 1967. The full 18 holes course was used for the first time in 1970 during the Benson & Hedges Trophy Competition.
GHANA 8DAYS/7NIGHTS GOLF TOUR Day 2 Early morning departure for Achimota Golf Club. Day 3 Achimota Golf Club Day 4 Achimota Golf Club Day 5 Depart for Cape Coast. Check into Coconut Grove Beach Resort. Day 6 Golf at Coconut Grove Golf Club. Optional Elmina Castle Tour. Day 7 Depart for Accra Day 8 Early morning Golf at Achimota Golf Club. Afternoon Shopping.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Price Per Person sharing double = $840
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
10PAX 15/20 PAX 20/25 PAX HOTEL 2 or 3 Star. 10PAX 15/20 PAX 20/25 PAX 10% Commission to Agents.
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Consequently,
the anti-malaria authorities agreed. A seven hole course was laid
out and in 1934 the Achimota Staff Club golf section was formed.
In
1955, the present Club House was made available by the school and
due to the closure of the other golf courses in Accra, application
for membership at Achimota increased greatly. By the end of 1959,
the course apparently was being played to capecit. In order to avoid
over-crowding and to maintain the conditions of the fairways, the
membership was limited to 350 and the waiting time for new applicants
was more than a year.
The
present terrace was built in 1973 as replacement to the previous
step, followed by the re-designing of the clubhouse to the present
outlook. Since that time, efforts have been made to improve the
course by means of adding hazards, planting trees, regrassing of
fairways and re-arranging the sequence of play, etc. The latest
developments being the construction of a halfway ClubHouse, courtesy
UNILEVER and refurbishing of the main Club House terrace.
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