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Abeokuta Sports Club which started as a meeting point for relaxation for members of the West African Command Headquarters, was founded in 1904. The current location in Ibara GRA was leased to the club on March 23, 1932 and was reputed to be actively engaged in several sport such as golf, shooting, cricket, football, motor car racing, tennis, billiards and snooker during the time. The club was also used for cinema as it had its own cinematography projector and screen. Films were loaned from the Nigerian Motion Pictures Ltd., the American motion Picture Ltd., the British Council and the United States Information Service to show to members.

White men dominated the leadership of the club at onset. Among the past presidents were Mr. Bill Burrows, Captain B. W. Macphenson, Mr. D.W. Farlene, M.E. Clubs, Mr.Frederick Bradford Adams, Captain Cecil Burleigh Wolfe and Captain Henry Mason. The first African president of the club was the late Dr. A. Okuboyejo.

Website:
https://abeokutasportsclub.org/

Section:
Almond Tree Section | Ayo SectionBasilica Section | Billiards & Snooker Section | Darts Section | Draught Section | Elders’ Section | Empire Section | Moonlight Section | Scrabble and Chess Section | Squash Section | Swimming Section | Table Tennis Section | Tennis Section

Committee Members:
President: Dr. Olusola Egbesola
Gen Sec: Mr Yinusa Jamiu Ajani, FINIMN,FCIA,FCICRM.

Contact:
Address: 1, Oba Ademola Road, OPIC Roundabout, Ibara GRA, Abeokuta.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +234 7031846878, +234 8033128150, +234 7030795853

The Bryanston Country Club started out with the Proclamation of the land and 301 acres being set aside for a golf course to be built in the township of Bryanston in 1940. Messrs Hedding, Alrridge and Bentwich came together in 1943 to start the discussions on how to proceed and at some point in their discussions the idea to not just build a Golf Course but to build a Country Club grew and an ad hoc committee was formed with a number of Bryanston residents.
At the end of 1948 the first official committee came into place and in 1951, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the first president of the club opened the Club house and the first 9 holes, with Mrs. Irene Douglas driving in the first ball.

In August of 1953, a fire broke destroying the entire Club house. Rebuilding commenced in July of 1954 and completed in February 1955. In March of 1970 the Club opened the squash courts offering its members diverse sporting activities.

The iconic Durban Country Club was officially opened on 9 December 1922 and boasts a rich and proud history.

Towards the end of the First World War serious consideration was first given to the establishment of a Country Club in Durban. Country clubs were beginning to proliferate in other parts of South Africa and as Durban was already achieving a reputation as the leading seaside resort, it seemed imperative that such an amenity be attained – for residents and visitors alike.

The Durban Golf Club situated on a low-lying swamp at Greyville, with the race track running around it, was repeatedly subject to flooding, which often cancelled out all golf. A final straw was when floods made this course virtually unplayable for the 1920 South African Golf Championships and it was feared that Durban would not be asked to host the event again in 1924.

George Waterman accepted the challenge of building the course and was assisted in this endeavour by fellow professional golfer Laurie Waters – a four times winner of the South African Open. The difficulties these men faced were immense. All earth-moving had to be done manually. Giant sand dunes were flattened, dense bush and trees chopped down and carted away.

The Club’s first General Committee held their inaugural meeting in April 1961 and the main Club building was opened on 29th January 1962. Since its inception, the Club has remained true to its original values. To this day membership of the Hong Kong Country Club remains truly cosmopolitan in character.

Before the Second World War to well into the 1960’s, membership of many Hong Kong social clubs was restricted to a particular racial or ethnic group. Against this backdrop, a group of Hong Kong residents began to formulate the idea of creating a social and family club with good amenities where residents of all nationalities and races could meet socially without fear of discrimination. Although many people played pivotal roles in the founding of the Club, the principal advocate of this group was Mr. J. R. Jones, a legal adviser to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation who worked tirelessly from as early as 1947 to bring this idea to fruition.

The Ibadan Recreation Club (1902), formally called Ibadan European Club holds a Registration Certificate No. 40 of 1930. In the year 1950, the Ibadan European Club became the Ibadan Recreation Club. Later, in the year 2002, through an amendment to the constitution, the Ibadan Recreation Club became the Ibadan Recreation Club (1902).

The emergence of a recreation club was necessitated by a substantial British presence in Ibadan around 1893 when the Colonial Governor Carter was the Governor-General in Lagos.

That year, troops were stationed in Ibadan. After the British were satisfied that peace and order had been established, the first civic reforms were initiated in 1897 by the second Resident, who met regularly with the Chiefs’ Council. Minutes of council meetings were kept for the first time and licensing fees were instituted to provide small civic revenues and the first physical improvements were begun which somewhat unfortunately was a jail and new barracks for the Hausa units of the British Army stationed on the outskirts of Ibadan

The Ibadan European Club, which was in existence then, served only the British. The African Club later emerged to serve the Africans and another club to serve the Lebanese.

The Syrians and Lebanese led by R.S. Moukarin, who had been in Ibadan since 1926, with L. Bouari, the President of the Syrian Lebanese Union, applied for land to be used for the construction of their own recreation facility since they were not allowed into the European Club or the African Club. In July 1947, the union was granted a piece of Crown land on the outskirts of the city for their recreation club which gave birth to the Lebanese Club of Ibadan.

Website:
http://ibadanrecreationclub1902.org/

Section:
Tennis | Squash | Table Tennis | Billiards & Snooker | Darts | Gymnastics & Aerobics | Swimming Pool Section

Committee Members:
Chairman: Dr. Adesoji Tayo

Contact:
Address: Onireke Road, Sabo, Ibadan, Oyo State
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +234 803 345 6701

Ikeja Golf Club was founded in 1968 by some prominent Nigerians and Expatriates amongst who were: Mr. A. O. Sandey, then Commercial Manager of Nigerian Airways; Major Dickson, then Airport Commandant; Air Cdre Dan Suleiman, then Commanding Officer Nigeria Air Force Base, Pfizer, Bobby Benson and Felix Ibru. Others were Chief A. Sandey, Mrs. Alakija, Dr Bailey, Duncan Blackwood, Chief Gilbert Olukoya, Chief Sunday Dankoro, John Brown (Pro), Albert Afun Ogidan, Captain John Obianyor and Baba Ahmed.

It started as a 6-hole Golf Course and finally took shape in 1969 when the Matchplay Championship Trophy was donated by Bobby Benson.

At that time, only irons were used to tee off and it was called the ‘pitch’ and ‘putt’ with a very small sized brown. These were managed until 1970 when members decided to acquire the present day Golf Course. Until 2003, the putting surfaces of the golf course were “Browns” but today all the putting surfaces of the course are Greens.

Website:
https://ikejagolfclub.org/

Committee Members:
Club Captain: Shina Akinyemi
Lady Vice Captain: Funmi ObisanContact:

Address: 1, Works Road, Off Oba Akinjobi Way, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +234 8105354451

Lagos Country Club was founded on August 3 1949. The original site of the Club was the hanger of the Royal Air Force by the West African Airways Corporation (WAAC) owned by Anglophone West African Countries of Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Upon independence of Nigeria in October 1960, WAAC was changed to Nigeria Airways. The Club was to soon move from its original site to a second site sharing its boundaries with the Grange School and John Holt Supermarket at the Air Traffic Section Wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport. The Club however moved to its present site covering over 5 acres on May 18, 1963.

The first Chairman of the Club was Mr. R. Simpson (a Briton) while the first Nigerian was a Medical Doctor, Dr. Williams. As at 1951, the membership strength of the Club was a modest range of between 75 and 100. With Snooker Billiards and Darts in the early 60s, the club has grown into 10 sporting sections today.

Website:
https://lagoscountryclub.net/

Section:
Badminton | Tennis | Table Tennis | Swimming | Squash | Darts | Snooker | Taekwondo | Scrabble | Other Games

Committee Members:
President: Seyi Adewumi
Sec Gen: Tunde Bajela

Contact:
Address: 2 Joel Ogunnaike Street Off Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way GRA Ikeja, Lagos.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +234 708 860 5062