2022 Professional Golf Tour of India explained

Year:2022
Tour:Professional Golf Tour of India
Regular Season:
No Of Events:21
Most Wins: Manu Gandas (6)
Honor1:Order of Merit
Honoree1: Manu Gandas
Prevseason:2020–21
Nextseason:2023

The 2022 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2022 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

European Tour partnership

In December, it was announced by the European Tour that the Professional Golf Tour of India had entered into a partnership with them and the PGA Tour. As part of the partnership, the leading player on the PGTI Order of Merit was given status onto the European Tour for the following season.[1]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner OWGR
points
Other
tours
25 Feb Gujarat Open Golf Championship Gujarat 4,000,000 Karandeep Kochhar (4) 5
4 Mar Glade One Masters Gujarat 4,000,000 Manu Gandas (2) 3
12 Mar Mujib Borsho Chattogram Open Bangladesh 5,000,000 Kshitij Naveed Kaul (3) 5
18 Mar Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) West Bengal 5,000,000 Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (2) 5
27 Mar Delhi US$500,000 Nitithorn Thippong (n/a) 10 ASA
1 Apr Gurugram Challenge Gujarat US$75,000 Dodge Kemmer (n/a) 6 ADT
15 Apr Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 5,000,000 Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (3) 5
22 Apr Delhi-NCR Open Uttar Pradesh 4,000,000 Manu Gandas (3) 5
20 Aug Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Coimbatore) Tamil Nadu 5,000,000 Khalin Joshi (6) 0.43
26 Aug Chennai Open Golf Championship Chennai 4,000,000 Manu Gandas (4) 0.47
10 Sep J&K Open Jammu and Kashmir 4,000,000 Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (4) 0.57
17 Sep Jaipur Open Rajasthan 4,000,000 Om Prakash Chouhan (7) 0.40
30 Sep Kapil Dev - Grant Thornton Invitational Gujarat 10,000,000 Varun Parikh (1) 0.52
7 Oct Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) Haryana 5,000,000 Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (5) 0.64
16 Oct Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Haryana 15,000,000 Gaganjeet Bhullar (12) 0.90
22 Oct Pune Open Golf Invitational Maharashtra 4,000,000 Veer Ahlawat (2) 0.65
12 Nov Telangana Golconda Masters Telangana 4,000,000 Manu Gandas (5) 0.44
19 Nov IndianOil Servo Masters Golf Assam 7,500,000 Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (6) 0.44
27 Nov Vooty Masters Telangana 10,000,000 Manu Gandas (6) 0.48
17 Dec SSP Chawrasia Invitational West Bengal 10,000,000 Manu Gandas (7) 1.20
24 Dec Tata Steel Tour Championship Jharkhand 30,000,000 S. Chikkarangappa (17) 0.78

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.[3] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2023 European Tour (DP World Tour).[4] [5]

Position Player Prize money () Status earned
1 8,850,688 Promoted to European Tour
2 7,099,768
3 5,694,880
4 5,205,766
5 4,447,688

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professional Golf Tour of India partners with DP World Tour, PGA Tour . European Tour . 16 December 2022 . 16 December 2022.
  2. Web site: 2022 Tournament schedule . Professional Golf Tour of India . 13 March 2022.
  3. Web site: 2022 Order of Merit . Professional Golf Tour of India . 24 December 2022.
  4. Joy . Chakravarty . TheJoyofGolf . 1606617243059912704 . Well done Manu Gandas! . 24 December 2022 . 24 December 2022.
  5. Web site: Shubhankar looks forward to Gandas joining him on DP World Tour; wants more Indians . ThePrint . 17 January 2023 . 25 February 2023.