PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Dec 13: The Tata Steel Group and PGTI will be hosting the TATA Steel Tour Championship at the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur from December 16 to December 19.
The event offers a handsome prize purse of Rs 1.5 crore and will feature an elite field of 74 professionals.
The Tata Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2020-2021 Tata Steel PGTI season. The tournament is a 72-hole stroke-play championship and there will be no cut applied.
There is guaranteed prize money for all participants. The Pro-Am event preceding the tournament will be played on December 14.
In all four rounds, half the field will play their first nine holes at Golmuri and the second nine at Beldih while the other half will play their first nine at Golmuri and the second nine at Beldih.
From round two onwards, the leading/front half of the leaderboard (leading groups as per the scores) will play their first nine holes at Golmuri and second nine at Beldih. The prize presentation ceremony on Sunday, December 19, will take place at Beldih.
The tournament will feature a glittering field including some of the biggest names in Indian golf such as defending champion Gaganjeet Bhullar (10 international wins), Jyoti Randhawa (9 international wins), Olympian SSP Chawrasia (6 international wins), Shubhankar Sharma (2 international wins) and Olympian Udayan Mane (2019 champion).
The field will also feature the top-60 from the PGTI Order of Merit with the prominent names being PGTI Order of Merit leader Karandeep Kochhar, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa, Chikkarangappa S, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Aman Raj, Veer Ahlawat and Manu Gandas, to name a few.
Sanjiv Paul, vice-president (Safety, Health and Sustainability), Tata Steel, said, “As an organisation, we have always had a long and enduring commitment for Indian sports and been at the forefront in creating infrastructure and platforms that nurture and support sporting talent. Our association with the PGTI in 2019 to promote golf at the highest level, is a natural progression of this resolve.”
The two venues, Beldih and Golmuri golf courses are both lush green, beautiful and very well-maintained, with the charming Dalma Hills in the background.
While the 70-year-old Beldih Golf Course flaunts long fairways, Golmuri Golf Course is a smaller, greener, boutique course disallowing golfers any room for error.
