TAKE Sports and the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India will organize the second edition of the SSP Chawrasia Invitational.

A press conference was organized to announce this tournament.

Launched last year as a tribute to Indian golfing icon SSP Chawrasia, the tournament boasts an enormous INR 1 crore prize fund. The Pro-Am competition is scheduled for December 6.

The tournament will feature 124 professionals. The leading Indian names are 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 are 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 Kolkata besides SSP Chawrasia are Shankar Das, Divyanshu Bajaj, Mohammad Sanju, Arjun Puri, and Raju Ali Mollah.

The legendary SSP Chawrasia is the second Indian professional golfer after Jeev Milkha Singh to have a PGTI event named in his honor.

It will be presented by TAKE Sports at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC), from December 7 – 10, 2023.

Priyanka Dutta