AHMEDABAD: The TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) began its 2022 season with the second edition of the Gujarat Open Golf Championship presented by Gujarat Tourism here Tuesday.
The tournament, carrying a prize purse of Rs 4 million, which teed off at the magnificent Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad, runs through till February 25.
Gujarat Tourism is the presenting partner for the event while the Sports Authority of Gujarat and Incredible India are the associate partners.
Golf tourism has in recent years emerged as a special segment of tourism worldwide and the Gujarat Open Golf Championship 2022 presented by Gujarat Tourism provides the state of Gujarat a great opportunity to tap into this potential.
The tournament comprises a field of 126 players including 123 professionals and three amateurs. The event features some of the top Indian professionals such as Olympian and 2021 PGTI Order of Merit champion Udayan Mane, Karandeep Kochhar, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Manu Gandas, Om Prakash Chouhan, Kshitij Naveed Kaul and Abhijit Singh Chadha, to name a few.
The foreign challenge is led by Sri Lanka’s Mithun Perera, Australia’s Kunal Bhasin, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and the Bangladeshi quintet of Md Akbar Hossain, Md Muaj, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Sayum and Md Shakhawat Hossain Sohel.
The local challenge is led by Gujarat-based professionals Varun Parikh, Anshul Patel, Jay Pandya, Shravan Desai and Arshpreet Thind. The Gujarat-based amateurs in the field are Rajiv Vasa, Dhruv Suri and Rachit Mankoti.
