2019 Professional Golf Tour of India

The 2019 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2019 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

2019 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration7 February 2019 (2019-02-07) – 29 December 2019 (2019-12-29)
Number of official events17
Most winsIndia S. Chikkarangappa (2)
India Rashid Khan (2)
India Udayan Mane (2)
Order of MeritIndia Rashid Khan
2018

OWGR inclusion

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In July 2018, it was announced that all Professional Golf Tour of India events, beginning in 2019, would receive Official World Golf Ranking points at the minimum level of 5 points for the winner of a 72-hole event.[1]

Tata Steel title sponsorship

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In February, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Tata Steel, being renamed as the Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India.[2]

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2019 season.[3]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a] OWGR
points
Other
tours[b]
9 Feb Golconda Masters Telangana 4,000,000   S. Chikkarangappa (13) 5
15 Feb PGTI Players Championship (Classic) Haryana 3,000,000   Udayan Mane (7) 7
9 Mar City Bank American Express Chittagong Open Bangladesh 4,000,000   Rashid Khan (10) 5
15 Mar Bengal Open West Bengal 3,000,000   Zamal Hossain (3) 5
5 Apr Pune Open Golf Championship Maharashtra 3,000,000   Kshitij Naveed Kaul (1) 5
19 Apr Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship Uttar Pradesh 3,000,000   S. Chikkarangappa (14) 5
10 May Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) Haryana 3,000,000   Mukesh Kumar (21) 5
17 May Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 3,000,000   Rashid Khan (11) 5
15 Sep Classic Golf and Country Club International Championship Haryana US$300,000   Rory Hie (n/a) 10 ASA
27 Sep Jaipur Open Rajasthan 3,000,000   Priyanshu Singh (1) 5
20 Oct Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Haryana 15,000,000   Ajeetesh Sandhu (4) 5
17 Nov Panasonic Open India Haryana US$400,000   Tom Kim (n/a) 10 ASA
23 Nov IndianOil Servo Masters Golf Assam 6,000,000   Veer Ahlawat (1) 5
1 Dec Kensville Open Gujarat 4,000,000   Shamim Khan (15) 5
15 Dec ICC RCGC Open Golf Championship West Bengal 4,000,000   Mithun Perera (7) 5
20 Dec Bengaluru Open Golf Championship Karnataka 4,000,000   Abhinav Lohan (1) 5
29 Dec Tata Steel Tour Championship Jharkhand 15,000,000   Udayan Mane (8) 5

Order of Merit

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The Order of Merit was titled as the Tata Steel PGTI Rankings and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees.[4][5]

Position Player Prize money ()
1   Rashid Khan 6,627,650
2   S. Chikkarangappa 5,027,778
3   Udayan Mane 3,970,300
4   Karandeep Kochhar 3,049,222
5   Veer Ahlawat 2,980,057

Notes

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  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Professional Golf Tour of India events they had won up to and including that tournament.
  2. ^ ASA − Asian Tour.

References

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  1. ^ "OWGR Board Announcement". Official World Golf Ranking. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2023. The All Thailand Golf Tour and Professional Golf Tour of India will be introduced to the OWGR at a minimum level of 5 first place points for their tournaments that are played over 72 holes.
  2. ^ "Tata Steel to sponsor the Professional Golf Tour of India". Tata Steel. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ "2019 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  4. ^ "2019 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Rashid Khan emerges Order of Merit champion". The Avenue Mail. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Rashid, who had earlier won the title in 2013 and 2016, closed the 2019 season with earnings of Rs. 66,27,650, the highest ever for a PGTI season, to finish number one in the money list by a fair distance.
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