The Tata Steel Group and Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will organise the Tata Steel Tour Championship at the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur from December 21 to 24.
The PGTI officials claimed the tournament would offer the biggest-ever prize purse on the PGTI with the prize money being doubled to Rs 3 crore this year.
The championship will feature 77 top professionals.
“The Tata Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2022 Tata Steel PGTI season. The tournament is a 72-hole strokeplay championship, and no cut will be applied. There is guaranteed prize money for all participants,” according to a media release issued by PGTI on Tuesday.
The tournament will feature a glittering field including some of the biggest names in Indian golf such as Jeev Milkha Singh, Gaganjeet Bhullar (2020 champion), SSP Chawrasia, Shiv Kapur, Jyoti Randhawa and Rashid Khan.
The field will also feature the top 60 from the Tata Steel PGTI Rankings with the prominent names being Manu Gandas (Tata Steel PGTI Ranking’s leader), Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Ajeetesh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan and Karandeep Kochhar as well as Udayan Mane (2019 and 2021 edition champion).
The tournament will decide the PGTI Order of Merit champion for the 2022 Tata Steel PGTI season. The prize presentation ceremony will be held at Beldih Golf Club on December 24.
“Tata Steel Group considers its association with this prestigious tour as a matter of great honour and privilege and a good representation of what we stand for beyond the excitement all of us get from the game, “On behalf of Tata Steel, I welcome all players, their entourage and fans world over to the Tata Steel Tour Championship 2022,” said Tata Steel vice-president of safety, health and sustainability, Sanjiv Paul.
“We thank Tata Steel for their unflinching support to PGTI for over a decade and a half.
“The Tata Steel Tour Championship 2022, which will be aired live on Eurosport as well as PGTI’s YouTube channel, promises to be a visual spectacle for golf fans across the country as the stellar field will boast some of the biggest names of Indian golf,” said PGTI CEO Uttam Singh Mundy.
