The 2023 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2023 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 16th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.
| Duration | 7 February 2023 – 24 December 2023 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 20 |
| Most wins |  Om Prakash Chouhan (4) |
| Order of Merit | Om Prakash Chouhan |
← 2022 2024 → | |
Schedule
editThe following table lists official events during the 2023 season.[1]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₹) |
Winner[a] | OWGR points |
Other tours[b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) | West Bengal | 10,000,000 | Sachin Baisoya (1) |
0.50 | |
| 26 Feb | Hero Indian Open | Haryana | US$2,000,000 |  Marcel Siem (n/a) |
9.29 | EUR |
| 4 Mar | Gujarat Open Golf Championship | Gujarat | 10,000,000 | Aman Raj (2) |
0.57 | |
| 26 Mar | Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge | Karnataka | US$300,000 | Om Prakash Chouhan (8) |
4.51 | CHA |
| 31 Mar | The Challenge | Karnataka | US$300,000 |  Ugo Coussaud (n/a) |
4.65 | CHA |
| 7 Apr | Delhi-NCR Open | Uttar Pradesh | 10,000,000 | Gaurav Pratap Singh (2) |
0.85 | |
| 15 Apr | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) | Haryana | 10,000,000 | Karan Pratap Singh (1) |
0.64 | |
| 22 Apr | Ahmedabad Open Golf Championship | Gujarat | 10,000,000 |  Jamal Hossain (1) |
0.79 | |
| 19 Aug | India Cements Pro Championship | Tamil Nadu | 5,000,000 | Sunhit Bishnoi (1) |
0.54 | |
| 25 Aug | Coimbatore Open | Tamil Nadu | 10,000,000 | Harshjeet Singh Sethie (1) |
0.54 | |
| 23 Sep | Vizag Open | Andhra Pradesh | 10,000,000 |  Nadaraja Thangaraja (4) |
0.52 | |
| 30 Sep | Telangana Golconda Masters | Telangana | 10,000,000 | Aman Raj (3) |
0.57 | |
| 7 Oct | J&K Open | Jammu and Kashmir | 5,000,000 | Om Prakash Chouhan (9) |
0.43 | |
| 28 Oct | Haryana Open | Haryana | 10,000,000 | Jairaj Singh Sandhu (1) |
0.85 | |
| 5 Nov | Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational | Haryana | 15,000,000 | Sachin Baisoya (2) |
0.83 | |
| 25 Nov | IndianOil Servo Masters Golf | Assam | 7,500,000 | Om Prakash Chouhan (10) |
0.61 | |
| 2 Dec | Kapil Dev - Grant Thornton Invitational | Gujarat | 20,000,000 | Karan Pratap Singh (2) |
0.88 | |
| 10 Dec | SSP Chawrasia Invitational | West Bengal | 10,000,000 | Om Prakash Chouhan (11) |
1.06 | |
| 16 Dec | Jaipur Open | Rajasthan | 10,000,000 | Aman Raj (4) |
0.80 | |
| 24 Dec | Tata Steel Tour Championship | Jharkhand | 30,000,000 | Gaganjeet Bhullar (13) |
1.13 |
Order of Merit
editThe 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.[2][3] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2024 European Tour (DP World Tour).[3][4]
| Position | Player | Prize money (₹) | Status earned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Om Prakash Chouhan |
11,826,059 | Promoted to European Tour |
| 2 | Aman Raj |
9,190,745 | |
| 3 | Sachin Baisoya |
7,848,166 | |
| 4 | Karan Pratap Singh |
7,644,298 | |
| 5 | Angad Cheema |
5,503,417 |
Notes
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ CHA − Challenge Tour; EUR − European Tour.
References
edit- ^ "2023 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "2023 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Gaganjeet Bhullar sees it home with a final round 66, wins his second Tata Steel Tour Championship crown". United News of India. 24 December 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
Om Prakash Chouhan (72-68-65-68) of Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, took the coveted No. 1 spot in the TATA Steel PGTI Ranking (PGTI Order of Merit) after finishing tied 10th at 15-under 273 at the Tour Championship this week. The 37-year-old Chouhan closed the 2023 season with record earnings of INR 1,18,26,059, the highest ever for a PGTI season, to finish number one in the money list by a fair distance… As a result of his Order of Merit triumph, Chouhan has now earned himself a card on the DP World Tour for the 2024 season.
- ^ Srivastava, Shantanu (19 January 2024). "Indian golf: The OP Chouhan story shows the power of believing". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 26 January 2024.