Top golfers of the country, including defending champion Yuvraj Sandhu, Udayan Mane and Khalin Joshi will be seen in action in the Rs 1 crore, prize money TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship to be played at the Tollygunge Club here from February 7 – 10.

The tournament will see participation of 126 players including 123 professionals and three amateurs. It is a 72-hole stroke play event with the cut being applied after 36 holes.

Apart from Mane, Joshi and Sandhu, the strong field at the event features among others Varun Parikh, Om Prakash Chouhan, Kshitij Naveed Kaul and Aadil Bedi. Aryan Roopa Anand, the winner of the PGTI Qualifying School last week, will also be seen in action as he turns professional this week.

The foreign names competing are Sri Lankans Mithun Perera, Anura Rohana, N Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain and Md Akbar Hossain, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai, American Varun Chopra, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill, Japan’s Makoto Iwasaki and Canada’s Minwoo Park.

The prominent Kolkata-based professionals in the field are Shankar Das, Feroz Ali Mollah, Sunit Chowrasia, Divyanshu Bajaj and Mohammad Sanju. The three Kolkata-based amateurs participating are Gurmehr Bindra, Rudraksh Banerjee and Sandeep Yadav.

“We at Tollygunge Club are pleased to host the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship, the season-opener on the PGTI this year. The tournament provides a great opportunity for the talented junior and amateur golfers of our Club to witness India’s leading professionals in action and draw inspiration from them. We’re confident the professionals will enjoy the excellent playing conditions at our Golf Course. We wish them all the best for the tournament.” said Club’s Golf Captain Deep Banerjee.

Tollygunge Club. We thank Tollygunge Club for partnering with us in staging the event. The handsome prize purse on offer coupled with the impressive field and immaculate playing conditions make for a fascinating week of golf. We wish the players all the best, welcome the rookies on the tour and look forward to a highly competitive season.” added PGTI CEO . Uttam Mundy.