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2007–08 Professional Golf Tour of India

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2007–08 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration18 October 2007 (2007-10-18) – 28 December 2008 (2008-12-28)
Number of official events19
Most winsIndia Mukesh Kumar (4)
Order of MeritIndia Mukesh Kumar
2009

The 2007–08 Professional Golf Tour of India was the second season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2007–08 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a]
21 Oct BILT Open Karnataka 8,000,000 Singapore Lam Chih Bing (1)
18 Nov IOC XtraPremium Masters Golf Assam 2,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (1)
23 Dec Global Green Bangalore Open Karnataka 3,000,000 India Rahul Ganapathy (1)
6 Jan Tata Open Jharkhand 2,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (2)
2 Feb Solaris Chemtech Open Golf Championship Haryana 3,000,000 India Rahul Ganapathy (2)
15 Mar SRF All India Matchplay Championship Delhi 2,000,000 India Arjun Singh (1)
30 Mar Centurion Bank of Punjab Open Golf Championship Haryana 2,500,000 India Mukesh Kumar (3)
31 May PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 3,000,000 India Harendra Gupta (1)
21 Jun PGTI Players Championship (Royal Calcutta) West Bengal 3,000,000 India Rahil Gangjee (1)
23 Aug PGTI Players Championship (Coimbatore) Tamil Nadu 3,000,000 India Digvijay Singh (1)
30 Aug Tamil Nadu Open Golf Championship Tamil Nadu 2,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (4)
5 Sep PGTI Players Championship (Poona) Maharashtra 3,000,000 Bangladesh Siddikur Rahman (1)
13 Sep AIS Golf Open Haryana 3,000,000 India Rahul Ganapathy (3)
21 Sep DLF Masters Haryana 8,000,000 India Jyoti Randhawa (4)
8 Nov Toyota Altis Open Karnataka 2,000,000 India Chinnaswamy Muniyappa (1)
29 Nov HUDA-GTPL – Unitech Haryana Open Haryana 2,000,000 Bangladesh Siddikur Rahman (2)
6 Dec Tata Open Jharkhand 2,000,000 India Shamim Khan (1)
21 Dec ONGC Masters Karnataka 2,000,000 India Shamim Khan (2)
28 Dec BILT Open Karnataka 8,000,000 India Jyoti Randhawa (5)

Order of Merit

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

Position Player Prize money ()
1 India Mukesh Kumar 3,431,992
2 India Shamim Khan 2,783,883
3 India Rahul Ganapathy 2,598,303
4 India Digvijay Singh 2,263,422
5 India Gaganjeet Bhullar 2,037,758

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.

References

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  1. ^ "2007–08 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  2. ^ "2007–08 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Jyoti Randhawa shoots 64 in round four to win BILT Open 2008". Professional Golf Tour of India. 28 December 2008. Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Mukesh Kumar ended the season as the PGTI Order of Merit champion for 2007-08 with earnings of Rs. 34,31,992.
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