Leading golfers of the country will vie for the top honours at the Tata Steel Tour Championship at the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur from December 1 6 to December 19. The event offers a handsome prize purse of Rs 1.5 crore and will feature an elite field of 74 professionals.
The Tata Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2020-2021 Tata Steel PGTI season. The tournament is 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.
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 (9 international wins), Olympian SSP Chawrasia (6 international wins), Shubhankar Sharma (2 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, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Aman Raj, Veer Ahlawat and Manu Gandas, to name a few.
Two-time European Tour winner and former Asia No. 1 Shubhankar Sharma, returns to play in Jamshedpur after five years. Shubhankar, 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.
Sanjiv Paul, vice president safety, health and sustainability, Tata Steel, said, “As an organisation, we have always had a long and enduring commitment for Indian sports and been at the forefront in creating infrastructure and platforms that nurture and support sporting talent. Our association with the PGTI in 2019 to promote golf at the highest level, is a natural progression of this resolve.”
Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI, said: “We thank Tata Steel for their continued support to PGTI through these tough times of the pandemic. The TATA Steel Tour Championship 2021, which will be aired Live for the first time, offers a visual treat for golf fans across the country as 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. As a curtain-raiser to the event, a putting contest featuring some of the leading Indian professionals has been organised on 15 December at the newly-inaugurated putting green at the JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur.