HOSUR, Tamil Nadu: The Women’s Golf Association of India enters a new era with its first domestic Rs 1 million event as the number of professionals in the fray rises to 26 alongside three amateurs for the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour.
This is the largest field assembled at the fledgling domestic Hero WGAI Tour. The purse also rises to an all-time high of Rs 1 million for a domestic event.
Barring Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar, Vani Kapoor and Sharmila Nicollet, all other leading Indian women pros are playing in the event. While Aditi is playing on the LPGA, Sharmila is on the Symetra Tour in US. Diksha Dagar is in Europe getting ready for her maiden appearance in a Major, as she plays the Evian and Women’s British Open.
It is a major landmark for the Tour, whose president Kavita Singh and secretary general Champika Sayal have taken the Tour to a new level. Coupled with this, the WGAI has also held the Hero Women’s Indian Open for 12 years in a row. This season, Diksha Dagar also won on the LET with a maiden title in the Women’s South African Open, signalling a new high for Indian women’s golf. Earlier, Aditi has won three LET titles in 2016 and 2017.
The seventh leg to be held at the Clover Greens in Hosur, Tamil Nadu will see the resumption of the Hero WGAI Tour after a gap of two-and-a-half-months. This is the first of four events scheduled in Southern India this season and the next leg is also scheduled in Bengaluru.
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