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The Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship brings together top Indian and international golf professionals for an exciting tournament in Ahmedabad. Renowned players like Rashid Khan, Udayan Mane, and Olympian athletes will compete at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club. The tournament features a massive ₹2 crore prize pool and will test players over four challenging rounds. International players from countries like Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh will add global flavor to this domestic sporting event.

Key Points: Rashid Khan, Udayan Mane Lead Stellar PGTI Golf Showdown

  • 126 players including 123 pros and 3 amateurs will compete
  • Tournament runs from April 8-12
  • ₹2 crore prize purse at stake
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PGTI Tour: Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Udayan Mane among stars in the fray in Ahmedabad

Top Indian golf pros compete in Indorama Ventures Open at Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club with ₹2 crore prize

"An impressive prize purse, a stellar field, and immaculate playing conditions - Amandeep Johl, PGTI CEO"

Ahmedabad, April 8

Top stars on the domestic season like Ajeetesh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, and Olympian Udayan Mane will be in the fray in the Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship, a new event on the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club here from Wednesday.

Ahmedabad, April 8 (IANS) Top stars on the domestic season like Ajeetesh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, and Olympian Udayan Mane will be in the fray in the Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship, a new event on the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club here from Wednesday. The tournament, which is being jointly organised by Indorama Ventures and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will end on April 12 and offers a total prize purse of INR 2 crore. The main event will be followed by the Pro-Am event on April 13.

The tournament will have a field of 126 players including 123 professionals and three amateurs. The event will be played in the stroke-play format consisting of four rounds of 18 holes each. The top 50 players and ties will make the cut after two rounds. The par for the course is 72.

Among the other stars in the field are top Indian professionals like Yuvraj Sandhu, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Varun Parikh, Shaurya Binu, Sachin Baisoya, Aman Raj, Karandeep Kochhar and Chikkarangappa S.

The foreign challenge will be led by Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Sri Lankans N. Thangaraja and K. Prabagaran, American Koichiro Sato, Italian Federico Zucchetti, Uganda’s Joshua Seale, Bangladeshis Md Siddikur Rahman, Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Md Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Muaj and Md Razu as well as Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang.

Besides PGTI winner Varun Parikh, the other professionals representing Ahmedabad include Jay Pandya and Dhruv Suri. The amateur from Ahmedabad is Islam Khan.

Indian golf legend Jeev Milkha Singh’s teenage son Harjai Milkha Singh of Chandigarh will be the third amateur playing in the tournament.

Aloke Lohia, Founder & Group CEO at Indorama Ventures, said, “We are proud to begin our association with the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) as the title sponsor of the inaugural Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship,” he said.

Amandeep Johl, CEO, PGTI, said, “An impressive prize purse, a stellar field, and immaculate playing conditions at the magnificent Kalhaar Blues & Greens make for a fascinating week of golfing action. We wish the players all the best.”

- IANS

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Rahul S.
Exciting lineup! Rashid Khan has been in great form lately. Hope he can pull off a win here 🏌️‍♂️ The international players add nice diversity too.
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Priya M.
Great to see more tournaments being added to PGTI! Though I wish they'd include more women golfers in these events - would love to see mixed tournaments.
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Arjun K.
Kalhaar Blues & Greens is such a beautiful course! Played there last year. The pros are in for a treat. That par-3 over water is going to be exciting to watch!
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Shreya P.
Interesting to see Jeev Milkha Singh's son participating. Golf runs in the family! Hope he does well among all these experienced players.
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Vikram D.
The prize money is decent but could be better compared to international standards. Still, it's good progress for Indian golf. More sponsors like Indorama should come forward.
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Neha R.
So many talented players in one tournament! 😍 I'll be following Khalin Joshi closely - his swing is just beautiful to watch. Anyone know if this will be televised?

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