Kolkata, December 5, 2023: TAKE Sports and the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India will jointly stage the second edition of the SSP Chawrasia Invitational presented by TAKE Sports at the historic Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC), from December 7 – 10, 2023. The tournament, launched last year as a gesture to honour Indian golfing legend SSP Chawrasia, offers an impressive prize purse of INR 1 crore. The Pro-Am event will be played on December 6.
The stellar field at the tournament will feature 124 professionals with the leading Indian names being event host SSP Chawrasia, Defending champion, Manu Gandas (2022 TATA Steel PGTI Order of Merit champion), Rashid Khan, Om Prakash Chouhan (2023 TATA Steel PGTI Ranking leader), Rahil Gangjee, Khalin Joshi, Chikkarangappa, Veer Ahlawat, Karan Pratap Singh, Udayan Mane and Aman Raj, to name a few.
The leading foreign names in the field are those of Sri Lankans N Thangaraja, Anura Rohana, K Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Badal Hossain, Md Akbar Hossain, Md Dulal Hossain, American Varun Chopra, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai, Canada’s Sukhraj Singh Gill and Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill.
The other prominent names participating from the host city of Kolkata besides SSP Chawrasia are Shankar Das, Divyanshu Bajaj, Mohammad Sanju, Arjun Puri and Raju Ali Mollah.
Tournament host SSP Chawrasia said, “I’m really looking forward to playing host at the second edition of the SSP Chawrasia Invitational presented by TAKE Sports. I feel privileged to have an event named in my honour. I would like to thank Srinivasan H R, TAKE Sports, PGTI and RCGC for their continued support to this event.
“With a strong field and perfect course conditions provided by the RCGC, we can expect a week of exciting golf. I’m also very motivated to performing well at my home course. I wish the players all the best.”
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