The PGTI Players Championship presented by Tollygunge Club will be played at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata from March 15–18. The fourth event of the 2022 PGTI season carries a prize purse of Rs 50 lakh.
The tournament field consists of 132 players including 129 professionals and three amateurs. It is a 72-hole stroke play event with the cut being applied after 36 holes.
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The stellar field at the event features some of the biggest names in Indian professional golf such as Jeev Milkha Singh, SSP Chawrasia, Rahil Gangjee, Olympian Udayan Mane, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa, Ajeetesh Sandhu, Chikkarangappa, defending champion Karandeep Kochhar and PGTI Order of Merit leader Kshitij Naveed Kaul, to name a few.
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Jeev will be playing a professional event in Kolkata for the first time since 2016.
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Interestingly, at the previous PGTI Players Championship held at Tollygunge Club in 2016, Karandeep, while still an amateur, created history by becoming the youngest player to win on the PGTI at the age of 17 years and 163 days. As a result, he also became the first Indian amateur to win on the PGTI.
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The foreign players competing are Sri Lankans Mithun Perera, Anura Rohana, N Thangaraja and Vijitha Bandara as well as Bangladeshis Md Zamal Hossain Mollah and Badal Hossain.
Besides SSP, Rahil and Viraj, the other prominent Kolkata-based professionals are Shankar Das, Feroz Ali Mollah, Sunit Chowrasia, Divyanshu Bajaj and Mohammad Sanju.
