Haryana Open from tomorrow at Panchkula; Pro Am event today

The stakes will be high as top golfers will vie for the top honours in the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) Haryana Open 2024, at the Panchkula Golf Club, from October 17 to 20. The tournament carries a prize purse of Rs 1 crore. The Pro-Am event will be played on October16.

The field at the sixth edition of the Haryana Open will feature 123 professionals and three amateurs. Leading Indian professionals in the field are TATA Steel PGTI Ranking leader Veer Ahlawat, Chandigarh’s Angad Cheema, Rahil Gangjee, Shaurya Binu, Aman Raj, Udayan Mane and defending champion Jairaj Singh Sandhu, to name a few.

Besides Chandigarh’s Cheema and Jairaj Singh Sandhu, the other notable names representing the tricity at the event are Aadil Bedi, Akshay Sharma, Harendra Gupta, Abhijit Singh Chadha, Amrit Lal, Rajiv Kumar Jatiwal, Ranjit Singh, Amritinder Singh, as well as Chandimandir’s Ravi Kumar.

The prominent foreign names in the field include Sri Lankans N Thangarajaand K Prabagaran, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Canada’s Sukhraj Singh Gill and American Dominic Piccirillo. The three amateurs participating Arjunveer Shishir, Jujhar Singh and Manyaveer Bhadoo, are all from the Panchkula Golf Club.

“We are now at the end of the season and therefore look forward to a keenly-contested affair at the Haryana Open as the TATA Steel PGTI Ranking race up. We wish the players all the best,” said Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI.