2019 Professional Golf Tour of India

2019 Professional Golf Tour of India season

Duration	7 February 2019 (2019-02-07) – 29 December 2019 (2019-12-29)
Number of official events	17
Most wins	S. Chikkarangappa (2) Rashid Khan (2) Udayan Mane (2)
Order of Merit	Rashid Khan
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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.

OWGR inclusion

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

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

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

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

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

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.

External links

• Official website