Michael Aggrey | Image by Modern Ghana
Michael Aggrey has been unanimously returned as secretary general of the Africa Golf Confederation (AGC) for a second four-year term, keeping the Ghanaian administrator in charge of the confederation’s day-to-day running as it tries to put its commercial and administrative base on a firmer footing. Aggrey, a former president of the Ghana Golf Association (GGA), was reappointed without opposition at the AGC’s general meeting in Hammamet, Tunisia, on 16 October, held alongside the All Africa Team Championship. His new term runs from 2026 to 2030.
He first took the post in 2022, when he became the first Ghanaian to hold it, elected at the confederation’s assembly at El Gouna Golf Club in Egypt. This year’s meeting in Hammamet also returned Uganda’s Johnson Omolo as president, so the AGC’s two senior officers go into the new cycle unchanged. The confederation credits Aggrey with strengthening its governance structures and financial management, and with leading efforts to introduce and formalise golf in countries where the sport had little or no established presence.
Next 4 Years
Priorities for the next four years include closer ties with international golf bodies on technical training, corporate sponsorship for major regional competitions and grassroots talent development. His profile goes beyond golf, Aggrey was Ghana’s chef de mission at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where the country won a bronze medal, and in 2025 he was serving as general secretary of the Ghana Olympic Committee.
Continuity at the top gives the AGC a clean run at the jobs it has not yet finished with sponsorship being the one to watch. The confederation’s flagship events now draw record fields, with 17 teams in Hammamet, but corporate backing for regional championships has lagged behind participation. The secretary general’s office is where sponsor relationships, member dues and event logistics all come together. Aggrey’s record on financial management will be tested by whether the AGC can turn a growing calendar into recurring revenue.
Golf’s place on the Olympic programme gives national federations a route to National Olympic Committee funding and government attention that many other governing bodies lack. An administrator with experience on both sides of that relationship is well placed to help smaller member countries use it, particularly where golf is still being set up from scratch.
The AGC also needs the administrative capacity to deliver Omolo’s agenda, including the cooperation agreement with the Riyadh-based Arab Golf Federation covering coach and referee exchanges and junior and women’s development. Agreements like these depend on a secretariat that can run them.
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