2022 Professional Golf Tour of India
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.
| Duration | 22 February 2022 – 24 December 2022 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 21 |
| Most wins |  Manu Gandas (6) |
| Order of Merit | Manu Gandas |
← 2020–21 2023 → | |
European Tour partnership
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
The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[2]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₹) | Winner[lower-alpha 1] | OWGR points | Other tours[lower-alpha 2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb | Gujarat Open Golf Championship | Gujarat | 4,000,000 | Karandeep Kochhar (4) | 5 | |
| 4 Mar | Glade One Masters | Gujarat | 4,000,000 | Manu Gandas (2) | 3 | |
| 12 Mar | Mujib Borsho Chattogram Open | Bangladesh | 5,000,000 | Kshitij Naveed Kaul (3) | 5 | |
| 18 Mar | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) | West Bengal | 5,000,000 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (2) | 5 | |
| 27 Mar | DGC Open | Delhi | US$500,000 |  Nitithorn Thippong (n/a) | 10 | ASA |
| 1 Apr | Gurugram Challenge | Gujarat | US$75,000 |  Dodge Kemmer (n/a) | 6 | ADT |
| 15 Apr | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) | Haryana | 5,000,000 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (3) | 5 | |
| 22 Apr | Delhi-NCR Open | Uttar Pradesh | 4,000,000 | Manu Gandas (3) | 5 | |
| 20 Aug | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Coimbatore) | Tamil Nadu | 5,000,000 | Khalin Joshi (6) | 0.43 | |
| 26 Aug | Chennai Open Golf Championship | Chennai | 4,000,000 | Manu Gandas (4) | 0.47 | |
| 10 Sep | J&K Open | Jammu and Kashmir | 4,000,000 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (4) | 0.57 | |
| 17 Sep | Jaipur Open | Rajasthan | 4,000,000 | Om Prakash Chouhan (7) | 0.40 | |
| 30 Sep | Kapil Dev - Grant Thornton Invitational | Gujarat | 10,000,000 | Varun Parikh (1) | 0.52 | |
| 7 Oct | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) | Haryana | 5,000,000 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (5) | 0.64 | |
| 16 Oct | Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational | Haryana | 15,000,000 | Gaganjeet Bhullar (12) | 0.90 | |
| 22 Oct | Pune Open Golf Invitational | Maharashtra | 4,000,000 | Veer Ahlawat (2) | 0.65 | |
| 12 Nov | Telangana Golconda Masters | Telangana | 4,000,000 | Manu Gandas (5) | 0.44 | |
| 19 Nov | IndianOil Servo Masters Golf | Assam | 7,500,000 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (6) | 0.44 | |
| 27 Nov | Vooty Masters | Telangana | 10,000,000 | Manu Gandas (6) | 0.48 | |
| 17 Dec | SSP Chawrasia Invitational | West Bengal | 10,000,000 | Manu Gandas (7) | 1.20 | |
| 24 Dec | Tata Steel Tour Championship | Jharkhand | 30,000,000 | S. Chikkarangappa (17) | 0.78 |
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.[3] The leading player on the tour (not otherwise exempt) earned status to play on the 2023 European Tour (DP World Tour).[4][5]
| Position | Player | Prize money (₹) | Status earned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manu Gandas | 8,850,688 | Promoted to European Tour |
| 2 | Yuvraj Singh Sandhu | 7,099,768 | |
| 3 | Ajeetesh Sandhu | 5,694,880 | |
| 4 | Shamim Khan | 5,205,766 | |
| 5 | Karandeep Kochhar | 4,447,688 |
Notes
- 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.
- ADT − Asian Development Tour; ASA − Asian Tour.
References
- "Professional Golf Tour of India partners with DP World Tour, PGA Tour". European Tour. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- "2022 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- "2022 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- Chakravarty, Joy [@TheJoyofGolf] (24 December 2022). "Well done Manu Gandas!" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 December 2022 – via Twitter.
- "Shubhankar looks forward to Gandas joining him on DP World Tour; wants more Indians". ThePrint. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.