New Delhi: The Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI) has added 4 new occasions to the primary half of its calendar, taking the entire variety of home tournaments within the February-April season to 11. There Tour is in talks with potential sponsors so as to add three extra occasions within the jam-packed window to supply most enjoying avenues to home golfers, PGTI CEO Amandeep Johl stated on Monday.
PGTI chairman Kapil Dev (centre) and Arun Sao, Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh (4th from left) at an occasion. (PGTI)
The occasions which were added to the calendar are Chhattisgarh Open Golf Championship (Feb 25‑28, prize cash ₹1cr) to be performed at Fairway Golf & Lake Resort in Naya Raipur, PGTI Invitational at Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort (April 1‑4, prize cash ₹1.5cr), Indorama Open Golf Championship (April 9-12, prize cash ₹2 cr) at Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Membership in Ahmedabad, and Calance Open (April 15-18, prize cash ₹1cr) in Delhi-NCR.
The tour normally breaks for 3 months beginning in Could to account for peak summer season and monsoon months, however this yr, PGTI can also look so as to add a couple of occasions in Could.
The brand new PGTI season will tee-off on February 11 with the PGTI Gamers Championship offered by Tollygunge Membership in Kolkata. As soon as underway, the season will characteristic 11 consecutive weeks of golf with a prize purse of ₹15.66 crore on supply, excluding the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Indian Open, a $2.25million occasion.
The PGTI has to date staged occasions throughout India in 16 States and two Union Territories together with Delhi-NCR. With the inaugural Chhattisgarh Open, PGTI makes its first foray into the state.
“We are very excited to take high-quality golf to Chhattisgarh. Slowly but surely, we will take golf to hitherto unexplored geographies of the country,” PGTI president Kapil Dev stated.
The second half of the season will start in August, the schedule of which remains to be within the works. PGTI performed 20 tournaments in 2023 and 21 in 2024. This yr, the tour goals to carry 25 occasions within the yr with a complete yearly prize purse of ₹35cr, surpassing the document excessive of ₹33cr from the 2024 PGTI season.
Apart from, the three worldwide occasions scheduled to be staged are the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Indian Open and the Problem Tour co-sanctioned Kolkata Problem and Delhi Problem.
PGTI additionally introduced the resumption of its second-tier tour after a five-year hole. Three NexGen occasions, with a prize purse of ₹20 lakh every, are scheduled within the first half of the yr at Phillaur, Kapurthala, and Gurugram.
“The launch of the PGTI NexGen events will help us create an efficient supply of talented golfers,” Dev stated. The PGTI plans to incorporate a complete of eight NextGen occasions in its full calendar. Johl additionally indicated that PGTI could look to experiment with new codecs in a few of its competitions.
“We are aware of the evolving formats, such as LIV, and we are open to try something new this season,” Johl added.