Panchkula's Shubhankar to make a comeback after 5 yrs

Chandigarh, December 13

Panchkula’s Shubhankar Sharma, Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Sandhu and Hamreet Kahlon will be among several other golfers from the region to feature in the TATA Steel Tour Championship at Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur, starting from December 16 to December 19.

The event offers a handsome prize money of Rs1.5 crore and will feature an elite field of 74 professionals. The TATA Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2020-21 season. The tournament will be a 72-hole stroke-play championship and there will be no cut applied. There is guaranteed prize money for all participants. The Pro-Am event preceding the tournament will be played on December 14.

Sharma, two-time European Tour winner and former Asia No. 1, will return to play in Jamshedpur after five years. Sharma, a European Tour regular, last played in Jamshedpur at the 15th TATA Open 2016, an event he went on to win. Sharma will also be playing a PGTI event for the first time since February 2020.

The tournament will feature a glittering field, including some of the biggest names in Indian golf such as defending champion Gaganjeet Bhullar (10 international wins), Jyoti Randhawa (nine international wins), Olympian SSP Chawrasia (six international wins) and Olympian Udayan Mane (2019 champion). The field will also feature the top-60 from the PGTI Order of Merit with the prominent names being PGTI Order of Merit leader Karandeep Kochhar, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa, Chikkarangappa S, Aman Raj, Veer Ahlawat and Manu Gandas among others. The tournament will decide the PGTI Order of Merit champion for the 2020-21 TATA Steel PGTI season, a race which is likely to be a closely-contested one.

“Some of the biggest names of Indian golf such as Shubhankar Sharma, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Olympians SSP Chawrasia and Udayan Mane and PGTI Order of Merit leader Karandeep Kochhar will compete with the emerging stars of the country. There is also an added excitement of the tournament deciding the PGTI Order of Merit champion for the 2020-21 season, a contest which is likely to go down to the wire, said Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI.

A putting contest featuring some of the leading Indian professionals will be organised on December 15. — TNS

Rs1.5-cr prize money

The event offers a handsome prize money of Rs1.5 crore and will feature an elite field of 74 professionals. The TATA Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2020-21 season. The tournament will be a 72-hole stroke-play championship and there will be no cut applied. There is guaranteed prize money for all participants.

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