The Aircel-Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) has announced the Aircel-PGTI Players Championship presented by Poona Club Ltd which will be held at the Poona Club Golf Course from June 22 to June 25. The tournament carries Rs 40 lakh prize money. The Pro-Am event will be played on June 26.
Jaideep Patwardhan, chairman, Poona Club Ltd. (Golf), said, “We look forward to hosting India’s top professionals during the Aircel-PGTI Players Championship. The course is in great shape and we expect a tough battle for top honours as the stakes are higher than ever before.”
Some of the players who will light up the fairways and greens of the Poona Club Golf Course include Gaganjeet Bhullar, C Muniyappa, Anirban Lahiri, Mukesh Kumar, Himmat Singh Rai, Rahil Gangjee, Mohd. Siddikur Rahman, Khan, Sujjan Singh, Vishal Singh, Gaurav Pratap Singh, Harmeet Kahlon, Digvijay Singh, Vijay Kumar, Harendra Gupta. Pune’s Gurki Shergill, who last year became the first Pune-based player to win a professional event, leads the local challenge along with Rajiv Datar, Dinesh Raghuvanshi, Jaideep Patwardhan and Pravin Pathare.
The course at the Poona Golf Club, laid way back in 1918, is today widely acknowledged as one of the most improved and finest in India. The last professional event at the Poona Club Golf Course, the PGTI Players Championship, played in September 2008, saw Bangladesh’s Mohd Siddikur Rahman post his first professional win in India.
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