TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship: The PGTI Players Championship will kick off at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata from February 11 – 14. The tournament offering a prize purse of Rs 1 crore marks the beginning of the 2025 PGTI season. The Pro-Am event will be played on February 15.
The tournament will see participation of 124 players including 121 professionals and three amateurs. The strong field at the event boasts of leading Indian professionals SSP Chawrasia and Rahil Gangjee, both local favourites, as well as Rashid Khan, Chikkarangappa, Yuvraj Sandhu, Karandeep Kochhar, defending champion Manu Gandas, Om Prakash Chouhan and Udayan Mane, to name a few.
The foreign players competing are Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Muaj, Md Razu, Md Solayeman and Md Sajib Ali, Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, Italians Michele Ortolani and Federico Zucchetti, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Americans Koichiro Sato and Dominic Piccirillo and Nepal’s Subash Tamang.
