2023 Professional Golf Tour of India

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.

2023 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration7 February 2023 (2023-02-07) – 24 December 2023 (2023-12-24)
Number of official events20
Most winsIndia Om Prakash Chouhan (4)
Order of MeritIndia Om Prakash Chouhan
2022
2024

Schedule

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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

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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

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  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

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  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. ^ a b "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.
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