City golfers to play inaugural Adani Golf Championship
Local golfers, including Yuvraj Sandhu, Aadil Bedi, Karandeep Kochhar, Harendra Gupta and others will participate in the inaugural Adani Invitational Golf Championship from April 1 to 4 at the Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort in Greater Noida. The tournament offers a total prize purse of Rs 1.5 crore and marks PGTI’s return to Jaypee Greens after 11 years. The main event will be followed by the Pro-Am event on April 5.
The championship will have 126 players, including 124 professionals and two amateurs. The event will be played in the stroke-play format consisting of four rounds of 18 holes each. The top 50 players and ties will make the cut after two rounds. The par for the course is 72. The stellar field at the tournament will also feature leading Indian professionals Ajeetesh Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Udayan Mane, Shaurya Binu, Sachin Baisoya, Manu Gandas, Aman Raj and Chikkarangappa S to name a few.
The foreign challenge will be led by Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, American Koichiro Sato, Bangladeshis Md Akbar Hossain, Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Razu and Md Somrat Sikdar, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Italians Michele Ortolani and Federico Zucchetti as well as Uganda’s Joshua Seale.
“The Adani Group joining hands with the PGTI is very exciting news for Indian golf.,” said Yuvraj Sandhu.
Olympian and former PGTI No. 1 Udayan Mane, said, “We as players look forward to this partnership taking Indian golf to greater heights. An exciting contest is in the offing at Jaypee Greens, where we will have one of our strongest fields this year.”
