The inaugural Adani Invitational Golf Championship teed off Tuesday at the Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort in Greater Noida.
The tournament, offers a total prize purse of Rs 1.5 crore and marks PGTI’s return to Jaypee Greens after 11 years. The main event will be followed by the Pro-Am event on April 5.
A curtain-raiser to the event was held on 29th March at The Belvedere Golf & Country Club, Ahmedabad. At this event, five leading Indian professionals conducted a golf clinic for children from The Adani International School in the presence of Pranav Adani, director, Adani Enterprises Limited and Kapil Dev, president, PGTI.
Per an official release, the event highlighted the shared vision of the Adani Group and the PGTI to develop golfing talent and advance Indian golf.
The partnership extends to the establishment of a joint Adani-PGTI golf training academy at Belvedere Golf & Country Club in Ahmedabad.
The release further asserts that the initiative “aligns with Adani’s commitment to grassroots development”.
The tournament boasts a field of 126 players including 124 professionals and two amateurs. The event is being 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.
The tournament field features leading Indian professionals Ajeetesh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Yuvraj Sandhu, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Udayan Mane, Shaurya Binu, Sachin Baisoya, Manu Gandas, Aman Raj, Karandeep Kochhar and Chikkarangappa S, to name a few.
The foreign challenge is being led by Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, American Koichiro Sato, Bangladeshis Md Akbar Hossain, Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Razu and Md Somrat Sikdar, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Italians Michele Ortolani and Federico Zucchetti as well as Uganda’s Joshua Seale.
