New Delhi, Apr 14 (UNI) Calance and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will be jointly staging the inaugural Calance Open at the Qutab Golf Course here from Tuesday.
The tournament offers a total prize purse of Rs crore. The main event will be followed by the Pro-Am event on April 19.
The tournament is returning after a gap of 15 years in which 126 players including 123 professionals are taking part.
The event will be played in the stroke-play format consisting of four rounds of 18 holes each. The top 50 players and ties will make the cut after two rounds. The par for the course is 70.
Professionals like Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Yuvraj Sandhu, Shaurya Binu, Aman Raj, Sachin Baisoya, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Udayan Mane, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Karandeep Kochhar and Chikkarangappa S, to name a few.
The foreign challenge will be led by Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Sri Lankans N Thangaraja
and K Prabagaran, American Koichiro Sato, Italian Federico Zucchetti, Uganda’s Joshua Seale, Bangladeshis Md Siddikur Rahman, Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Md Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Muaj and Md Razu as well as Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur
Rai and Subash Tamang.
Besides Sachin Baisoya, Rashid Khan and Shaurya Bhattacharya, the other leading professionals from Delhi include Shamim Khan, Kshitij Naveed Kaul, Chiragh Kumar, Harshjeet Singh Sethie, Arjun Prasad and Kapil Kumar, to name a few. Calance COO Rohan Govil will compete as an amateur at the tournament.
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