2007–08 Professional Golf Tour of India explained

Year:2007–08
Tour:Professional Golf Tour of India
Regular Season:
No Of Events:19
Most Wins: Mukesh Kumar (4)
Honor1:Order of Merit
Honoree1: Mukesh Kumar
Prevseason:2006–07
Nextseason:2009

The 2007–08 Professional Golf Tour of India was the second 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 2007–08 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner
21 Oct BILT Open Karnataka 8,000,000 Lam Chih Bing (1)
18 Nov IOC XtraPremium Masters Golf Assam 2,000,000 Mukesh Kumar (1)
23 Dec Global Green Bangalore Open Karnataka 3,000,000 Rahul Ganapathy (1)
6 Jan Tata Open Jharkhand 2,000,000 Mukesh Kumar (2)
2 Feb Solaris Chemtech Open Golf Championship Haryana 3,000,000 Rahul Ganapathy (2)
15 Mar SRF All India Matchplay Championship Delhi 2,000,000 Arjun Singh (1)
30 Mar Centurion Bank of Punjab Open Golf Championship Haryana 2,500,000 Mukesh Kumar (3)
31 May PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 3,000,000 Harendra Gupta (1)
21 Jun PGTI Players Championship (Royal Calcutta) West Bengal 3,000,000 Rahil Gangjee (1)
23 Aug PGTI Players Championship (Coimbatore) Tamil Nadu 3,000,000 Digvijay Singh (1)
30 Aug Tamil Nadu Open Golf Championship Tamil Nadu 2,000,000 Mukesh Kumar (4)
5 Sep PGTI Players Championship (Poona) Maharashtra 3,000,000 Siddikur Rahman (1)
13 Sep AIS Golf Open Haryana 3,000,000 Rahul Ganapathy (3)
21 Sep DLF Masters Haryana 8,000,000 Jyoti Randhawa (4)
8 Nov Toyota Altis Open Karnataka 2,000,000 Chinnaswamy Muniyappa (1)
29 Nov HUDA-GTPL – Unitech Haryana Open Haryana 2,000,000 Siddikur Rahman (2)
6 Dec Tata Open Jharkhand 2,000,000 Shamim Khan (1)
21 Dec ONGC Masters Karnataka 2,000,000 Shamim Khan (2)
28 Dec BILT Open Karnataka 8,000,000 Jyoti Randhawa (5)

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees.[2] [3]

Position Player Prize money ()
1 3,431,992
2 2,783,883
3 2,598,303
4 2,263,422
5 2,037,758

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2007–08 Tournament schedule . Professional Golf Tour of India . 8 January 2023.
  2. Web site: 2007–08 Order of Merit . Professional Golf Tour of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20090105214209/http://www.pgtofindia.com/oom.html . 5 January 2009 . 22 January 2023.
  3. Web site: Jyoti Randhawa shoots 64 in round four to win BILT Open 2008 . Professional Golf Tour of India . 28 December 2008 . 10 October 2023 . Mukesh Kumar ended the season as the PGTI Order of Merit champion for 2007-08 with earnings of Rs. 34,31,992. . https://web.archive.org/web/20081230143942/http://www.pgtofindia.com/pgti_news/details.asp?id=558 . 30 December 2008.