Golf club likely to host PGTI event in Nov
The Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) is most likely to host an event in November as it has not featured in the announcement for the first half of 2025 made by the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI). It will be decided later if the CGC will organise a players’ championship or Jeev Milkha Invitational Golf Tournament.
Last year, the CGC greens had hosted the Chandigarh Open 2024 in April and the 7th edition of the Jeev Milkha Invitational Golf Tournament was cancelled. The ‘showpiece’ event of the CGC was cancelled as the sponsor had sold his company’s share, claimed sources. “We have already talked to the PGTI and an event will be listed for the CGC — most likely in November. Whether it will be the Jeev Invitational or the players’ championship, it will be announced by the PGTI in their calendar for second half of the year. We are prepared to host any prestigious event at any given time,” said Ravibir Singh Grewal, president, CGC. “The PGTI will surely allot an event to the CGC. It will be in November, which is a perfect time to host a national event. The announcement for the same is likely to be made in June. The suspense on hosting the Jeev Milkha Invitational will be also cleared by that time,” said Dr GS Kochhar, member executive committee, CGC.
Many national, international and local professional golfers had taken part in the previous editions of the invitational event. The PGTI announced the first-half calendar for the 2025 season last week. The 2025 TATA Steel PGTI season will tee-off on February 11 with the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship in Kolkata. The season will feature 11 consecutive weeks of non-stop golfing action across many venues between February and April with a total offering of Rs 15.66 crore. As per the schedule, the PGTI will organise Chhattisgarh Open Golf Championship (prize money: Rs 1 crore, venue: Fairway Golf & Lake Resort, Naya Raipur), PGTI Invitational (prize money: Rs 1.5 crore, venue: Jaypee Greens Golf Resort, Greater Noida), Indorama Open Golf Championship (prize money: Rs 2 crore, venue: Kalhaar Blues & Greens, Ahmedabad) and Calance Open (prize money: Rs 1 crore, venue: Delhi NCR).
The PGTI has, so far, staged events across India in 16 states, two Union Territories and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The Kapil Dev-Grant Thornton Invitational with prize money of Rs 2 crore will return for its third edition with the venue moving to Bengaluru. The three international events scheduled to be staged are the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Hero Indian Open (prize money: USD 2.25 million) and the Challenge Tour co-sanctioned Kolkata Challenge and Delhi Challenge (both offering prize money of USD 300,000 each).
Three PGTI NexGen events with a prize purse of Rs 20 lakh each are slated to be held in the first quarter of 2025 at venues such as Phillaur, Kapurthala and Golden Greens (Gurugram).
In December last, after a gap of 15 years, the CGC had hosted the 123rd All India Amateur Golf Championship by the Indian Golf Union (IGU). The 16-year-old golfer from Kolkata, Anshul Mishra had won the event.
Meanwhile, sources claimed that the CGC is likely to host the IGU Samarvir Sahi Golf Championship from May 5 to 9. Top amateur golfers of the country take part in this event, which has been played at CGC since 2000, in the memory of former local golfer Samarvir Singh Sahi.
