Chandigarh golfer Angad set to defend title at Coal India Open

City’s Angad Cheema, the Defending champion at the Coal India Open, will return for the second edition of the tournament, which is set to be played at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata from August 11 to 14.The Rs 1-crore prize money event will have a field of 132 players, including 131 professionals and an amateur. The line-up will feature leading Indian professionals including DP World PGTI Order of Merit leader Saptak Talwar, Veer Ahlawat, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Khalin Joshi, Shaurya Bhattacharya besides Cheema.

The leading foreign professionals in the field will be Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Mithun Perera, Thailand’s Tanapat Pichaikool, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Americans Dominic Piccirillo and Koichiro Sato, Japan’s Koichiro Ishika and Taiga Tanaka and Ugandan Joshua Seale, to name a few.

The field has some prominent names from the host city of Kolkata including Shankar Das (former DP World PGTI Order of Merit champion), Rahil Gangjee, Viraj Madappa, Mohammad Sanju, Divyanshu Bajaj, 2026 DP World PGTI NexGen Order of Merit Champion Sunit Chowrasia, Feroz Ali Mollah, Indrajit Bhalotia and Karan Verma.

“The staging of the second edition bears testament to Coal India’s strong commitment to Indian professional golf and its belief in the growth and development of the sport. We are confident that this year’s edition will build on the success of the inaugural event and showcase the very best of Indian professional golf in the sports loving city of Kolkata,” said Amandeep Johl, CEO, PGTI.

The first edition of the Coal India Open was staged in Ahmedabad last year.

B Sairam, Chairman, Coal India Limited, said, “The successful first edition laid a strong foundation, and we are pleased to see the tournament staged at the iconic Tollygunge Club in Kolkata this time around. Through our association with the PGTI, we are proud to contribute to the growth of professional golf in India and provide a platform for our country’s finest golfing talent to showcase their skills.”