2015 Professional Golf Tour of India

The 2015 Professional Golf Tour of India was the ninth season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

2015 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration3 February 2015 (2015-02-03) – 27 December 2015 (2015-12-27)
Number of official events15
Most winsIndia S. Chikkarangappa (3)
Order of MeritIndia S. Chikkarangappa
2014
2016

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2015 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a] OWGR
points
Other
tours[b]
6 Feb PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) Haryana 3,000,000   Nadaraja Thangaraja (2) n/a
13 Feb Hemisphere PGTI Masters Uttar Pradesh 3,000,000   Shamim Khan (9) n/a
1 Mar Golconda Masters Telangana 4,000,000   Harendra Gupta (4) n/a
7 Mar Cochin Masters Kerala 5,500,000   Mukesh Kumar (16) n/a
3 Apr Ahmedabad Masters Gujarat 4,000,000   Khalin Joshi (2) n/a
10 Apr PGTI Players Championship (Kensville) Gujarat 3,000,000   S. Chikkarangappa (6) n/a
2 Oct PGTI Players Championship (Rambagh) Rajasthan 3,000,000   Udayan Mane (1) n/a
9 Oct BILT Open Haryana 10,000,000   Abhijit Singh Chadha (2) n/a
23 Oct Western India Oxford Golf Masters Maharashtra 3,000,000   Udayan Mane (2) n/a
31 Oct TAKE Solutions India Masters Karnataka US$120,000   S. Chikkarangappa (7) 6 ADT
8 Nov Panasonic Open India Delhi US$400,000   Chiragh Kumar (5) 14 ASA
21 Nov IndianOil Servo Masters Golf Assam 3,000,000   Shankar Das (6) n/a
5 Dec CG Open Maharashtra 10,000,000   Ashok Kumar (12) n/a
20 Dec Tata Open Jharkhand 7,500,000   Mukesh Kumar (17) n/a
27 Dec McLeod Russel Tour Championship West Bengal 15,000,000   S. Chikkarangappa (8) n/a

Order of Merit

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The Order of Merit was titled as the Rolex Rankings and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees.[2][3]

Position Player Prize money ()
1   S. Chikkarangappa 4,887,440
2   Mukesh Kumar 3,941,710
3   Abhijit Singh Chadha 2,682,203
4   Khalin Joshi 2,639,763
5   Udayan Mane 2,221,507

Notes

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  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Professional Golf Tour of India events they had won up to and including that tournament.
  2. ^ ADT − Asian Development Tour; ASA − Asian Tour.

References

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  1. ^ "2009 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. ^ "2015 Rolex Rankings". Professional Golf Tour of India. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Chikka signs off in style". Deccan Herald. 27 December 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Chikka's brilliant win at RCGC took his season's earnings to an outstanding Rs 48,87,440 as he climbed from second place to top the Order of Merit.
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