City's Yuvraj to feature in Delhi-NCR golf meet

Chandigarh, April 18

Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, who is ranked 2 on the PGTI Order of Merit, along with other local golfers, will feature in the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) and Prometheus School’s Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship. The tournament is scheduled to be played at the Noida Golf Course from April 19 to 22.

The Pro-Am event will be staged on April 23. The tournament, the ninth event of the 2022 TATA Steel PGTI season, carries a prize purse of Rs. 40 lakh. The tournament is set to feature some of the top Indian professionals such as Olympian and defending champion Udayan Mane, international winners Rashid Khan and Khalin Joshi, as well as former champion Honey Baisoya. The other prominent names are Asian Tour regular Aman Raj, Manu Gandas and Abhijit Singh Chadha. Besides Rashid Khan, Honey Baisoya and Manu Gandas, the other leading golfers from the Delhi-NCR region, Shamim Khan, Abhinav Lohan, Kartik Sharma, Sachin Baisoya and Amardeep Malik are playing in the event.

The foreign challenge will be led by Sri Lankan nationals Mithun Perera, N Thangaraja and Anura Rohana, Bangladeshi nationals Md Zamal Hossain Mollah, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Md Sayum, Md Muaj and Md Somrat Sikdar as well as Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai.