The 2019 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2019 Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.
| Duration | 7 February 2019 – 29 December 2019 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 17 |
| Most wins |  S. Chikkarangappa (2) Rashid Khan (2) Udayan Mane (2) |
| Order of Merit | Rashid Khan |
← 2018 2020–21 → | |
OWGR inclusion edit
In July 2018, it was announced that all Professional Golf Tour of India events, beginning in 2019, would receive Official World Golf Ranking points at the minimum level of 5 points for the winner of a 72-hole event.[1]
Tata Steel title sponsorship edit
In February, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Tata Steel, being renamed as the Tata Steel Professional Golf Tour of India.[2]
Schedule edit
The following table lists official events during the 2019 season.[3]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (₹) |
Winner[a] | OWGR points |
Other tours[b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb | Golconda Masters | Telangana | 4,000,000 | S. Chikkarangappa (13) |
5 | |
| 15 Feb | PGTI Players Championship (Classic) | Haryana | 3,000,000 | Udayan Mane (7) |
7 | |
| 9 Mar | City Bank American Express Chittagong Open | Bangladesh | 4,000,000 | Rashid Khan (10) |
5 | |
| 15 Mar | Bengal Open | West Bengal | 3,000,000 |  Zamal Hossain (3) |
5 | |
| 5 Apr | Pune Open Golf Championship | Maharashtra | 3,000,000 | Kshitij Naveed Kaul (1) |
5 | |
| 19 Apr | Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship | Uttar Pradesh | 3,000,000 | S. Chikkarangappa (14) |
5 | |
| 10 May | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) | Haryana | 3,000,000 | Mukesh Kumar (21) |
5 | |
| 17 May | Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) | Haryana | 3,000,000 | Rashid Khan (11) |
5 | |
| 15 Sep | Classic Golf and Country Club International Championship | Haryana | US$300,000 |  Rory Hie (n/a) |
10 | ASA |
| 27 Sep | Jaipur Open | Rajasthan | 3,000,000 | Priyanshu Singh (1) |
5 | |
| 20 Oct | Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational | Haryana | 15,000,000 | Ajeetesh Sandhu (4) |
5 | |
| 17 Nov | Panasonic Open India | Haryana | US$400,000 |  Tom Kim (n/a) |
10 | ASA |
| 23 Nov | IndianOil Servo Masters Golf | Assam | 6,000,000 | Veer Ahlawat (1) |
5 | |
| 1 Dec | Kensville Open | Gujarat | 4,000,000 | Shamim Khan (15) |
5 | |
| 15 Dec | ICC RCGC Open Golf Championship | West Bengal | 4,000,000 |  Mithun Perera (7) |
5 | |
| 20 Dec | Bengaluru Open Golf Championship | Karnataka | 4,000,000 | Abhinav Lohan (1) |
5 | |
| 29 Dec | Tata Steel Tour Championship | Jharkhand | 15,000,000 | Udayan Mane (8) |
5 |
Order of Merit edit
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.[4][5]
| Position | Player | Prize money (₹) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rashid Khan |
6,627,650 |
| 2 | S. Chikkarangappa |
5,027,778 |
| 3 | Udayan Mane |
3,970,300 |
| 4 | Karandeep Kochhar |
3,049,222 |
| 5 | Veer Ahlawat |
2,980,057 |
Notes edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ ASA − Asian Tour.
References edit
- ^ "OWGR Board Announcement". Official World Golf Ranking. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
The All Thailand Golf Tour and Professional Golf Tour of India will be introduced to the OWGR at a minimum level of 5 first place points for their tournaments that are played over 72 holes.
- ^ "Tata Steel to sponsor the Professional Golf Tour of India". Tata Steel. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "2019 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ "2019 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Rashid Khan emerges Order of Merit champion". The Avenue Mail. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
Rashid, who had earlier won the title in 2013 and 2016, closed the 2019 season with earnings of Rs. 66,27,650, the highest ever for a PGTI season, to finish number one in the money list by a fair distance.