Panchkula, Oct 3 (UNI) Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will be staging PGTI Players Championship 2022 from October 4 to 7. The tournament carries a prize purse of Rs. 50 lakh.
The Pro-Am event will be played on October 8.
The PGTI Players Championship being held at the scenic Panchkula Golf Club for the fourth year in succession is being supported by Presenting Partner American Express as well as Hosts Govt. of Haryana and Host Venue Panchkula Golf Club.
The event will feature top Indian professionals such as Olympian Udayan Mane, Rashid Khan, PGTI Order of Merit leader Ajeetesh Sandhu, Khalin Joshi, defending champion Chikkarangappa, Manu Gandas, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu and Honey Baisoya, to name a few.
Besides Chandigarh-based golfers Ajeetesh Sandhu and Yuvraj Sandhu, the Tricity will also be represented by prominent names such as Chandigarh’s Abhijit Singh Chadha, Akshay Sharma, Harendra Gupta, Angad Cheema, Amrit Lal, Ranjit Singh, Harmeet Kahlon, Amritinder Singh, Rajiv Kumar Jatiwal as well as Panchkula’s Aadil Bedi and Chandimandir’s Ravi Kumar.
The major foreign names in the field consist of Sri Lankans Mithun Perera, N Thangaraja, Anura Rohana, K Prabagaran, Bangladesh's Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain and Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai.
All the three amateurs in the fray, Arjun Singh Bhatia, Paramraj Singh Sandhu and Brijesh Kumar hail from the Panchkula Golf Club.
Col. A S Dhillon, GM, Panchkula Golf Club, said, "We thank the Govt. of Haryana to have sanctioned the conduct of the PGTI Players Championship at the Panchkula Golf Club (PGC). We have been able to develop PGC into a top championship venue in the country in a short span of few years thanks to the continued support of the Govt. of Haryana. We’re confident that the professionals will relish the excellent playing conditions at the PGC."
Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI, said: "We thank American Express, Govt. of Haryana and the Panchkula Golf Club (PGC) for supporting the event and helping make the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship a regular feature in Panchkula, a city which is now an emerging golfing hub. We can expect a highly competitive week of golf with a strong field vying for top honours at a venue which offers immaculate playing conditions."
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