Calcutta, March 9 :     Sixty professionals, along with 180 amateurs will tee off in the early hours over the Royal Calcutta Golf Club tomorrow, for honours in the Pro-Am meet of the Wills Indian Open beginning the day after. There will be four-member teams with a pro leading each. The best two scores of the day will count. Of course, as in all Pro-Ams preceding Indian Open meets, the focus will be on the celebrities, more than on the pros. Cricketers Roger Binny and Ajay Jadeja will be in a team, along with T.V. Ramaswamy and professional H. Buhrmann. Former cricket star and now champion amateur golfer Kapil Dev will be with Vijay Awasty, Anup Singh and last year?s Asian PGA order of merit topper Kang Wook-Soon of Korea. Also in fray will be former cricketer Karsan Ghavri and national selector Ashok Malhotra, in team with U. Lal and professional Brad Andrews. Former Test star Gundappa Viswanath will not be able to make it because of a bereavement in the family, it was learnt. 151 for the Open Meanwhile, the Open fray is at 151 players and the top 65 will stay above the two-round ?cut?. Twenty five from the top 40 in the Asian PGA order of merit are on the list. The success in this possibly due to the prize money staying at $ 300,000. India?s top player at the moment, Jyoti Randhawa, has just made a tour of a part of the European circuit, a circuit in which, he feels, the difference in attitude is the ?great belief those players have in themselves.? Randhawa, who was 22nd in the APGA order of merit last year, today again commented on the new turf. ?The course is very firm, and playing well, but the tenth, especially is tough. I think it is a bit unfair to the players,? he said. Tournament director Lakshman Singh, of course, pointed out that while the slope has been made somewhat steep, and the fairway narrower, ?I?m waiting for someone to comment on the fact that it is a few yards shorter over the entire length.? Boonchu Ruangkit of Thailand, the veteran, said he feels promise and talent on the Thai golfing horizon is on the rise. ?There is also a rise in the Asian standards, and Jeev (Milkha Singh) is a good example of that,? Ruangkit said. The Thai contingent at the Open is large and looks pretty strong. ?The main problem, with the economic slowdown was that it lasted for a couple of years and slashed the amount of prize money,? he added. ?Now things are recovering.? The Koreans were not so sure about the future of the sport in their country. Kang Wook-Soon said: ?Golf is still a very costly game in Korea, and not many can play it.? But the great success of a young Korean girl on the US PGA Tour has started a new, small spurt. The Japanese contingent has swelled to 20 this year, up from just two last year. This is mainly because more players are trying to qualify for their own country?s cash rich 36-tourney circuit through experience from the Asian PGA. ?The not so good ones go out and try to make it big,? said Kazuyoshi Yonekura. The contingent has, in it, Tatshuiko Ichihara, the 1997 world junior champion, who turned pro this year. Five golfers gave tips to youngsters at a clinic this afternoon. They were Jyoti Randhawa, Robert Huxtable of the US, Simon Yates of Scotland, Hendrick Buhrmann of Russia and Scott Rowe of Hong Kong. To enable its members to interact with the overseas pros the RCGC will be hosting a get-together on the club lawns tomorrow evening.