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2022 Professional Golf Tour of India

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2022 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration22 February 2022 (2022-02-22) – 24 December 2022 (2022-12-24)
Number of official events21
Most winsIndia Manu Gandas (6)
Order of MeritIndia Manu Gandas
2023

The 2022 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2022 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

European Tour partnership

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In December, it was announced by the European Tour that the Professional Golf Tour of India had entered into a partnership with them and the PGA Tour. As part of the partnership, the leading player on the PGTI Order of Merit was given status onto the European Tour for the following season.[1]

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a] OWGR
points
Other
tours[b]
25 Feb Gujarat Open Golf Championship Gujarat 4,000,000 India Karandeep Kochhar (4) 5
4 Mar Glade One Masters Gujarat 4,000,000 India Manu Gandas (2) 3
12 Mar Mujib Borsho Chattogram Open Bangladesh 5,000,000 India Kshitij Naveed Kaul (3) 5
18 Mar Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) West Bengal 5,000,000 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (2) 5
27 Mar DGC Open Delhi US$500,000 Thailand Nitithorn Thippong (n/a) 10 ASA
1 Apr Gurugram Challenge Gujarat US$75,000 United States Dodge Kemmer (n/a) 6 ADT
15 Apr Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 5,000,000 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (3) 5
22 Apr Delhi-NCR Open Uttar Pradesh 4,000,000 India Manu Gandas (3) 5
20 Aug Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Coimbatore) Tamil Nadu 5,000,000 India Khalin Joshi (6) 0.43
26 Aug Chennai Open Golf Championship Chennai 4,000,000 India Manu Gandas (4) 0.47
10 Sep J&K Open Jammu and Kashmir 4,000,000 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (4) 0.57
17 Sep Jaipur Open Rajasthan 4,000,000 India Om Prakash Chouhan (7) 0.40
30 Sep Kapil Dev - Grant Thornton Invitational Gujarat 10,000,000 India Varun Parikh (1) 0.52
7 Oct Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) Haryana 5,000,000 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (5) 0.64
16 Oct Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Haryana 15,000,000 India Gaganjeet Bhullar (12) 0.90
22 Oct Pune Open Golf Invitational Maharashtra 4,000,000 India Veer Ahlawat (2) 0.65
12 Nov Telangana Golconda Masters Telangana 4,000,000 India Manu Gandas (5) 0.44
19 Nov IndianOil Servo Masters Golf Assam 7,500,000 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (6) 0.44
27 Nov Vooty Masters Telangana 10,000,000 India Manu Gandas (6) 0.48
17 Dec SSP Chawrasia Invitational West Bengal 10,000,000 India Manu Gandas (7) 1.20
24 Dec Tata Steel Tour Championship Jharkhand 30,000,000 India S. Chikkarangappa (17) 0.78

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.[3] The leading player on the Order of Merit earned status to play on the 2023 European Tour (DP World Tour).[4][5]

Position Player Prize money () Status earned
1 India Manu Gandas 8,850,688 Promoted to European Tour
2 India Yuvraj Singh Sandhu 7,099,768
3 India Ajeetesh Sandhu 5,694,880
4 India Shamim Khan 5,205,766
5 India Karandeep Kochhar 4,447,688

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. ^ ADT − Asian Development Tour; ASA − Asian Tour.

References

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  1. ^ "Professional Golf Tour of India partners with DP World Tour, PGA Tour". European Tour. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ "2022 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. ^ "2022 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  4. ^ Chakravarty, Joy [@TheJoyofGolf] (24 December 2022). "Well done Manu Gandas!" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "Shubhankar looks forward to Gandas joining him on DP World Tour; wants more Indians". ThePrint. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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