The TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India announced the third edition of the Gujarat Open Golf Championship. The tournament carrying a prize purse of Rs. 1 crore is to be played at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad from March 1–4.
The tournament comprises a field of 126 players including 123 professionals and three amateurs. The event is set to feature some of the top Indian professionals such as Udayan Mane, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Kshitij Naveed Kaul, Abhijit Singh Chadha and Sachin Baisoya, to name a few.
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The foreign players in the field are Sri Lanka’s Mithun Perera, N Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Canada’s Sukhraj Singh Gill and Minwoo Park, Australia’s Kunal Bhasin, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai, USA’s Varun Chopra, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill and Japan’s Makoto Iwasaki.
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The local challenge will be led by Gujarat-based professionals Varun Parikh, Anshul Patel, Shravan Desai and Jay Pandya. The Gujarat-based amateurs in the field are Dhruv Suri and Swayam Ambalia. The third amateur in the field is Noida-based teenager Aarav Shah of Australia.
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The PGTI staged a qualifying event for professionals ahead of the main event for the first time ever. There were 21 professionals in the field at the qualifier that took place on February 28 at Kalhaar Blues & Greens. The top two professionals who qualified for the main draw of the event were Bikramjit Singh Sandhu (73) and Imran Ali Mollah (74). Imran defeated Manav Bais (74) in a playoff for the second spot.
