: Golf: PGTI announces events calendar for second half of 2022 season #IndiaNEWS #Sports,Golf New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The second half of the PGTI season will resume from August 17 with the organisers

Golf: PGTI announces events calendar for second half of 2022 season #IndiaNEWS #Sports ,Golf
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The second half of the PGTI season will resume from August 17 with the organisers announcing a strong line-up of 14 events.
The 14 events is a shot in the arm for Indian professional golf as it boasts prize money in excess of Rs. 11 crore thereby taking the seasons total prize purse to over Rs 18 crore.
The events include three new ones in Kapil Dev-Grant Thornton Invitational, SSP Chawrasia Invitational and Vooty Masters, all carrying a prize purse of Rs. 1 crore each.
The first half of the season consisted of eight events and was followed by the mid-season break. The action will now resume with the Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship 2022 presented by KGISL which will be played at the Coimbatore Golf Club from August 17 20 marking PGTIs return to Coimbatore after eight years.
The following week, PGTI will hold its first ever event at the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course and make its return to Chennai after four years with the staging of the third edition of the Chennai Open Golf Championship from August 23 26.
The Jammu Tawi Golf Course in Jammu will be yet another new venue for the tour as the J&K Open presented by J&K Tourism, staged in Srinagar during its inaugural edition in 2021, moves from the Kashmir valley to the Jammu region. The event will be held from September 7 10.
Thereafter, the fifth edition of the Jaipur Open will be held at the Rambagh Golf Club from September 14 17.
The month of October begins with the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship at the Panchkula Golf Club which will be played from October 4 7.
The fifth edition of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational presented by TAKE is to be played at the Chandigarh Golf Club from October 13 16. The event carries a prize purse of Rs. 1. 5 crore.
This will be followed by the sixth edition of the Pune Open to be staged at the Poona Club Golf Course from October 19 22 and the second edition of the MP Cup slated from October 26 29.
The inaugural Kapil Dev-Grant Thornton Golf Invitational worth Rs 1 crore in prize money is scheduled from November 1 4.
The IndianOil Servo Masters Golf returns for its 22nd edition. The tournament will be staged from November 16 19 at the Digboi Golf Links.
Dream Valley presents Vooty Masters, also offering a prize purse of Rs 1 crore, is another new event added to the schedule. The event scheduled for November 24 27also takes the PGTI to a new venue Vooty Golf County in Vikarabad, Telangana.
The eighth edition of the Golconda Masters is up next to be played from November 30 December 3 at the Hyderabad Golf Association.
The third new event to be launched worth Rs. 1 crore is the SSP Chawrasia Invitational presented by TAKE which will be staged at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club from December 8 11.