Gujarat Open heralds start of PGTI’s 2022 season

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Varun Parikh
Varun Parikh, who won PGTI's Final Stage Q-School, will headline the local challenge at the Gujarat Open.

The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) begins the 2022 season with the second edition of the Gujarat Open. The tournament carrying a prize purse of Rs 40 lakh is scheduled at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad from February 22 – 25.

The tournament comprises a field of 126 players, including 123 professionals and three amateurs. The event is set to feature some of the top Indian professionals like Olympian and 2021 PGTI Order of Merit champion Udayan Mane, Karandeep Kochhar, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Manu Gandas, Om Prakash Chouhan, Kshitij Naveed Kaul and Abhijit Singh Chadha, to name a few.

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The foreign challenge will be led by Sri Lanka’s Mithun Perera, Australia’s Kunal Bhasin, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and the Bangladeshi quintet of Md Akbar Hossain, Md Muaj, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Sayum and Md Shakhawat Hossain Sohel.

The local challenge will be led by Gujarat-based professionals Varun Parikh, Anshul Patel, Jay Pandya, Shravan Desai and Arshpreet Thind. The Gujarat-based amateurs in the field are Rajiv Vasa, Dhruv Suri and Rachit Mankoti.

 

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Udayan Mane said, “I’m excited about playing the Gujarat Open 2022 as it’s always a treat to play in Kalhaar, one of the top championship venues in India. I play at Kalhaar quite regularly and it is almost like a home course for me. I’ve also won at this venue in the past and that adds to my confidence this week. It’s a course where the approach shots demand a lot of precision. I would like to carry forward the momentum from last year’s Order of Merit win.”

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