Golfers Manu Gandas and Gaganjeet Bhullar ready to tame greens at the Noida leg of PGTI tour

Defending champion Manu Gandas and Gaganjeet Bhullar have confirmed their entries for the Delhi-NCR Open 2023 leg of the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), starting on Tuesday at the Noida Golf Course.

The four-day tournament has a prize purse of Rs 1 crore. The Pro-Am event will be staged on April 8.

Besides Gandas and Bhullar, the tournament will feature some of the top Indian professionals, including Rashid Khan and PGTI Order of Merit leader Om Prakash Chouhan. Aman Raj, Khalin Joshi and Viraj Madappa will also be seen in action during the tournament.

Golfers from neighboring Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal will also tee off at the Noida Golf Course on Tuesday. Mithun Perera, N Thangaraja, Anura Rohana and K Prabagaran are some of the most prominent Sri Lankan golfers who have confirmed their entries.

Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain (all three from Bangladesh) and Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai will give the Indian golfers good competition.

Ankur Prakash, Ishaan Sawhney and Parth Raman Sood are three amateurs on the field and are well versed with the Noida Golf Course. It will be interesting to see how all three of the above golfers are able to tame the greens during the competition.

With an impressive prize purse of Rs 1 crore at stake, Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO of PGTI, said a spectacle of golf is on the cards this week in Noida.

“For the first time, big prize money has been announced for the competition at the Noida Golf Course,” Mundy told the press.

Steven Menezes, secretary of the Noida Golf Course, said the event is a great opportunity to provide exposure to budding golfers in the region.

“Excellent playing conditions at the Noida Golf Course and prize money of Rs 1 crore will surely give competitors a chance to give their best,” Menezes said.