The 14th Tata Open Golf hosted at Golmuri golf course, was inaugurated by the former Chief Minister Arjun Munda. The Pro-Am was played on Wednesday. The event offers a rich prize purse of `75 lakhs.
Uttam Singh Mundy, director, PGTI, said, “It is the support of sponsors such as the Tata Steel Group that has helped the PGTI build a strong base for professional golf in India. We thank them for their continued support to the sports. An exciting contest lies in prospect at the 14th TATA Open as the leading professionals of the South Asian region compete for the lucrative prize purse and top position in the Rolex Ranking.
The tournament was held at both the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses till last year. This year the Golmuri golf course will be the only venue for the tournament. Golmuri is a lush green, beautiful and very well-maintained golf course which doesn’t allow golfers any room for error.
The tournament will feature some of the top Indian professionals such as Chikkarangappa S (current Rolex Ranking leader), Abhijit Singh Chadha, Mukesh Kumar, Udayan Mane, defending champion Om Prakash Chouhan, Shankar Das, Shamim Khan and Ashok Kumar, to name a few. The top foreign players in the field are Sri lankans Anura Rohana, K Prabagaran and N Thangaraja, Kunal Bhasin of Australia, Nepal’s Shivaram Shrestha and Bangladesh’s Md Zamal Hossain Mollah.