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TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022 tees off on March 15 TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022
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TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022 tees off on March 15

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 14 Mar 2022, 05:48 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022 will tee off at Tollygunge Club, Kolkata from Mar 15 – 18.

The fourth pro-am event of TATA Steel PGTI current season carrying a prize purse of Rs. 50 lakh will be played on Mar 19.

Under the 72-hole stroke play format, the tournament will witness 132 players, including 129 professionals and three amateurs. The cut will be applied after 36 holes.

Presence of Indian professional golf players such as Jeev Milkha Singh, SSP Chawrasia, Rahil Gangjee, Olympian Udayan Mane, defending champion Karandeep Kochhar and PGTI Order of Merit leader Kshitij Naveed Kaul will raise the competitive spirit up.

Indian golf legend Jeev Milkha Singh will be playing a professional event in Kolkata for the first time since 2016.

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.

Gaurav Ghosh, Golf Captain at Tollygunge Club, said, “We are very pleased to host the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship which will be the first PGTI event to be staged at Tollygunge Club in two years."

Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO of PGTI, said, “The depth of the field featuring some of India’s leading names along with the impressive prize purse make for an exciting week of golf."

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