The TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2025, hosted by Tollygunge Club, will take place from February 11-14, 2025, marking the start of the 2025 season. The tournament, which offers a prize purse of INR 1 crore, will feature 124 players, including 121 professionals and three amateurs.

The championship boasts of leading Indian professionals like SSP Chowrasia, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Chikkarangappa, Yuvraj Sandhu, Karandeep Kochhar, defending champion Manu Gandas, Om Prakash Chouhan and Udayan Mane, and many more.

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.

Besides SSP Chawrasia, the other Kolkata-based professionals in the field are Shankar Das, Mohammad Sanju, Divyanshu Bajaj, Indrajit Bhalotia, Feroz Ali Mollah, and Karan Verma. The three Kolkata-based amateurs participating are Varish Mohta, Suveer Kapoor, and Anshul Mishra.

PGTI has partnered with Victorious Endeavours, a sports development company, to introduce Victorious Choice as a Tour Partner for this season.

Priyanka Dutta