Indorama Ventures and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), the official sanctioning body of men’s professional golf in India, will be jointly staging the inaugural Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship from April 9 – 12, 2025, at the magnificent Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad.
The tournament offers a total prize purse of INR 2 crore. The main event will be followed by
the Pro-Am event on April 13.
Indorama Ventures, the title sponsor for the event, is an industry-leading global sustainable
chemicals company. Their diversified, international businesses are integrated across the PET
and specialty chemicals value chain.
Indorama Ventures’ footprint spans manufacturing operations at 117 locations in 31 countries, with market-leading positions in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
The tournament beginning on April 9 at Kalhaar Blues & Greens will have a field of 126
players including 123 professionals and three amateurs.
The event will be played in the stroke-play format consisting of four rounds of 18 holes each. The top 50 players and ties will make the cut after two rounds. The par for the course is 72.
The star-studded field at the tournament will feature leading Indian professionals Ajeetesh
Sandhu, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Yuvraj Sandhu, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Varun
Parikh, Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Udayan Mane, Shaurya Binu, Sachin
Baisoya, Aman Raj, Karandeep Kochhar and Chikkarangappa S, to name a few.
The foreign challenge will be led by Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Sri Lankans N
Thangaraja and K Prabagaran, American Koichiro Sato, Italian Federico Zucchetti, Uganda’s
Joshua Seale, Bangladeshis Md Siddikur Rahman, Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain, Md Akbar
Hossain, Md Jakiruzzaman Jakir, Md Somrat Sikdar, Md Muaj and Md Razu as well as Nepal’s
Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang.
Besides PGTI winner Varun Parikh, the other professionals representing Ahmedabad include
Jay Pandya and Dhruv Suri. The amateur from Ahmedabad is Islam Khan.
Indian golf legend Jeev Milkha Singh’s teenage son Harjai Milkha Singh of Chandigarh will be
the third amateur playing the tournament.
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