2023 Professional Golf Tour of India explained

Year:2023
Tour:Professional Golf Tour of India
Regular Season:
No Of Events:20
Most Wins: Om Prakash Chouhan (4)
Honor1:Order of Merit
Honoree1: Om Prakash Chouhan
Prevseason:2022
Nextseason: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.

Schedule

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

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner OWGR
points
Other
tours
10 Feb Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) West Bengal 10,000,000 Sachin Baisoya (1) 0.50
26 Feb 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 Karnataka US$300,000 Om Prakash Chouhan (8) 4.51 CHA
31 Mar 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 11,826,059 Promoted to European Tour
2 9,190,745
3 7,848,166
4 7,644,298
5 5,503,417

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023 Tournament schedule . Professional Golf Tour of India . 8 January 2023.
  2. Web site: 2023 Order of Merit . Professional Golf Tour of India . 24 December 2023.
  3. News: 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 . 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. News: Indian golf: The OP Chouhan story shows the power of believing . Hindustan Times . Shantanu . Srivastava . 19 January 2024 . 26 January 2024.