2015 Professional Golf Tour of India explained

Year:	2015
Tour:	Professional Golf Tour of India
Regular Season:	–
No Of Events:	15
Most Wins:	S. Chikkarangappa (3)
Honor1:	Order of Merit
Honoree1:	S. Chikkarangappa
Prevseason:	2014
Nextseason:	2016

The 2015 Professional Golf Tour of India was the ninth 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 2015 season.^[1]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (₹)	Winner	OWGR points	Other tours
6 Feb	PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula)	Haryana	3,000,000	Nadaraja Thangaraja (2)	n/a
13 Feb	Hemisphere PGTI Masters	Uttar Pradesh	3,000,000	Shamim Khan (9)	n/a
1 Mar	Golconda Masters	Telangana	4,000,000	Harendra Gupta (4)	n/a
7 Mar	Cochin Masters	Kerala	5,500,000	Mukesh Kumar (16)	n/a
3 Apr	Ahmedabad Masters	Gujarat	4,000,000	Khalin Joshi (2)	n/a
10 Apr	PGTI Players Championship (Kensville)	Gujarat	3,000,000	S. Chikkarangappa (6)	n/a
2 Oct	PGTI Players Championship (Rambagh)	Rajasthan	3,000,000	Udayan Mane (1)	n/a
9 Oct	BILT Open	Haryana	10,000,000	Abhijit Singh Chadha (2)	n/a
23 Oct	Western India Oxford Golf Masters	Maharashtra	3,000,000	Udayan Mane (2)	n/a
31 Oct		Karnataka	US$120,000	S. Chikkarangappa (7)	6	ADT
8 Nov		Delhi	US$400,000	Chiragh Kumar (5)	14	ASA
21 Nov	IndianOil Servo Masters Golf	Assam	3,000,000	Shankar Das (6)	n/a
5 Dec	CG Open	Maharashtra	10,000,000	Ashok Kumar (12)	n/a
20 Dec	Tata Open	Jharkhand	7,500,000	Mukesh Kumar (17)	n/a
27 Dec	McLeod Russel Tour Championship	West Bengal	15,000,000	S. Chikkarangappa (8)	n/a

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was titled as the Rolex Rankings and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees.^{[2] [3]}

Position	Player	Prize money (₹)
1		4,887,440
2		3,941,710
3		2,682,203
4		2,639,763
5		2,221,507

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2009 Tournament schedule . Professional Golf Tour of India . 2 January 2023.
2. Web site: 2015 Rolex Rankings . Professional Golf Tour of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20160105002208/http://www.pgtofindia.com:80/ . 5 January 2016 . 2 January 2023.
3. News: Chikka signs off in style . Deccan Herald . 27 December 2015 . 10 October 2023 . Chikka's brilliant win at RCGC took his season’s earnings to an outstanding Rs 48,87,440 as he climbed from second place to top the Order of Merit..