2023 Professional Golf Tour of India

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2023 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration7 February 2023 (2023-02-07) – 24 December 2023 (2023-12-24)
Number of official events20
Most wins Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan (4)
Order of Merit Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan
2022
2024

The 2023 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2023 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 16th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

Contents

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2023 season. [1]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
()
Winner [lower-alpha 1] OWGR
points
Other
tours [lower-alpha 2]
10 FebTata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge)West Bengal10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Sachin Baisoya (1)0.50
26 Feb Hero Indian Open HaryanaUS$2,000,000 Flag of Germany.svg Marcel Siem (n/a)9.29 EUR
4 MarGujarat Open Golf ChampionshipGujarat10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Aman Raj (2)0.57
26 Mar Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge KarnatakaUS$300,000 Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan (8)4.51 CHA
31 Mar The Challenge KarnatakaUS$300,000 Flag of France.svg Ugo Coussaud (n/a)4.65 CHA
7 AprDelhi-NCR OpenUttar Pradesh10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Gaurav Pratap Singh (2)0.85
15 AprTata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh)Haryana10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Karan Pratap Singh (1)0.64
22 AprAhmedabad Open Golf ChampionshipGujarat10,000,000 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Jamal Hossain (1)0.79
19 AugIndia Cements Pro ChampionshipTamil Nadu5,000,000 Flag of India.svg Sunhit Bishnoi (1)0.54
25 AugCoimbatore OpenTamil Nadu10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Harshjeet Singh Sethie (1)0.54
23 SepVizag OpenAndhra Pradesh10,000,000 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Nadaraja Thangaraja (4)0.52
30 SepTelangana Golconda MastersTelangana10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Aman Raj (3)0.57
7 OctJ&K OpenJammu and Kashmir5,000,000 Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan (9)0.43
28 OctHaryana OpenHaryana10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Jairaj Singh Sandhu (1)0.85
5 NovJeev Milkha Singh InvitationalHaryana15,000,000 Flag of India.svg Sachin Baisoya (2)0.83
25 NovIndianOil Servo Masters GolfAssam7,500,000 Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan (10)0.61
2 DecKapil Dev - Grant Thornton InvitationalGujarat20,000,000 Flag of India.svg Karan Pratap Singh (2)0.88
10 DecSSP Chawrasia InvitationalWest Bengal10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan (11)1.06
16 DecJaipur OpenRajasthan10,000,000 Flag of India.svg Aman Raj (4)0.80
24 DecTata Steel Tour ChampionshipJharkhand30,000,000 Flag of India.svg Gaganjeet Bhullar (13)1.13

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was titled as the Tata Steel PGTI Rankings and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees. [2] [3] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2024 European Tour (DP World Tour). [3] [4]

PositionPlayerPrize money ()Status earned
1 Flag of India.svg Om Prakash Chouhan 11,826,059Promoted to European Tour
2 Flag of India.svg Aman Raj 9,190,745
3 Flag of India.svg Sachin Baisoya 7,848,166
4 Flag of India.svg Karan Pratap Singh 7,644,298
5 Flag of India.svg Angad Cheema 5,503,417

Notes

  1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Professional Golf Tour of India events they had won up to and including that tournament.
  2. CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.

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References

  1. "2023 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  2. "2023 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Gaganjeet Bhullar sees it home with a final round 66, wins his second Tata Steel Tour Championship crown". United News of India. 24 December 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023. Om Prakash Chouhan (72-68-65-68) of Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, took the coveted No. 1 spot in the TATA Steel PGTI Ranking (PGTI Order of Merit) after finishing tied 10th at 15-under 273 at the Tour Championship this week. The 37-year-old Chouhan closed the 2023 season with record earnings of INR 1,18,26,059, the highest ever for a PGTI season, to finish number one in the money list by a fair distance… As a result of his Order of Merit triumph, Chouhan has now earned himself a card on the DP World Tour for the 2024 season.
  4. Srivastava, Shantanu (19 January 2024). "Indian golf: The OP Chouhan story shows the power of believing". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 26 January 2024.