The Pro-Am (professional-amateur) event of the 13th TATA Open witnessed amateur golfers from the Tata group and Jamshedpur play alongside some of the top professional golfers in the country.
The Pro-Am event was played in the team stableford format with each team comprising one professional and three amateurs.The event was won by PGTI member K Prabagaran's team. Sri lankan K Prabagaran's team comprised of amateurs Karna Parikh, Alka Garg and Sushmita Ghosh. Their team total was 111.PGTI member Mukesh Kumar's team finished runners-up with a team total of 110. The Mhow-based professional's team finished second on the basis of a count-back of the last nine holes. The amateurs who made up Mukesh's team were Rajesh Gautam, Nikhil Adesara and Vipul Amin.
The tournament will feature some of the top Indian professionals, including Chikkarangappa (current Rolex Rankings leader), Mukesh Kumar, Shamin Khan, Om Prakash Chouhan, defending champion M Dharma, Shankar Das, Amardip Sinh Malik, Digvijay Singh and Sanjay Kumar to name a few.The event will also have a foreign flavor with Sri lankans Anura Rohana, K Prabagaran and N Thangaraja, Australia's Kunal Bhasin, Nepal's Shivaram Shrestha and Md Zamal Hossain Mollah in fray.