2023 Professional Golf Tour of India

2023 Professional Golf Tour of India season

Duration	7 February 2023 (2023-02-07) – 24 December 2023 (2023-12-24)
Number of official events	20
Most wins	Om Prakash Chouhan (4)
Order of Merit	Om Prakash Chouhan
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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.

Schedule

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

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (₹)	Winner [a]	OWGR points	Other tours [b]
10 Feb	Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge)	West Bengal	10,000,000	Sachin Baisoya (1)	0.50
26 Feb	Hero Indian Open	Haryana	US$2,000,000	Marcel Siem (n/a)	9.29	EUR
4 Mar	Gujarat Open Golf Championship	Gujarat	10,000,000	Aman Raj (2)	0.57
26 Mar	Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge	Karnataka	US$300,000	Om Prakash Chouhan (8)	4.51	CHA
31 Mar	The Challenge	Karnataka	US$300,000	Ugo Coussaud (n/a)	4.65	CHA
7 Apr	Delhi-NCR Open	Uttar Pradesh	10,000,000	Gaurav Pratap Singh (2)	0.85
15 Apr	Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh)	Haryana	10,000,000	Karan Pratap Singh (1)	0.64
22 Apr	Ahmedabad Open Golf Championship	Gujarat	10,000,000	Jamal Hossain (1)	0.79
19 Aug	India Cements Pro Championship	Tamil Nadu	5,000,000	Sunhit Bishnoi (1)	0.54
25 Aug	Coimbatore Open	Tamil Nadu	10,000,000	Harshjeet Singh Sethie (1)	0.54
23 Sep	Vizag Open	Andhra Pradesh	10,000,000	Nadaraja Thangaraja (4)	0.52
30 Sep	Telangana Golconda Masters	Telangana	10,000,000	Aman Raj (3)	0.57
7 Oct	J&K Open	Jammu and Kashmir	5,000,000	Om Prakash Chouhan (9)	0.43
28 Oct	Haryana Open	Haryana	10,000,000	Jairaj Singh Sandhu (1)	0.85
5 Nov	Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational	Haryana	15,000,000	Sachin Baisoya (2)	0.83
25 Nov	IndianOil Servo Masters Golf	Assam	7,500,000	Om Prakash Chouhan (10)	0.61
2 Dec	Kapil Dev - Grant Thornton Invitational	Gujarat	20,000,000	Karan Pratap Singh (2)	0.88
10 Dec	SSP Chawrasia Invitational	West Bengal	10,000,000	Om Prakash Chouhan (11)	1.06
16 Dec	Jaipur Open	Rajasthan	10,000,000	Aman Raj (4)	0.80
24 Dec	Tata Steel Tour Championship	Jharkhand	30,000,000	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]}

Position	Player	Prize money (₹)	Status earned
1	Om Prakash Chouhan	11,826,059	Promoted to European Tour
2	Aman Raj	9,190,745
3	Sachin Baisoya	7,848,166
4	Karan Pratap Singh	7,644,298
5	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.

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. "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.

External links

• Official website