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2016 Professional Golf Tour of India

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2016 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration10 February 2016 (2016-02-10) – 25 December 2016 (2016-12-25)
Number of official events21
Most winsIndia S. Chikkarangappa (3)
India Shubhankar Sharma (3)
Order of MeritIndia Rashid Khan
2015
2017

The 2016 Professional Golf Tour of India was the 10th 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 2016 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a] OWGR
points
Other
tours[b]
13 Feb CIAL Cochin Masters Kerala 6,000,000 India Feroz Ali Mollah (2) n/a
19 Feb PGTI Players Championship (Eagleton) Karnataka 3,000,000 India Shubhankar Sharma (2) n/a
28 Feb Golconda Masters Telangana 4,000,000 India Ajeetesh Sandhu (2) n/a
25 Mar Kolkata Classic West Bengal 3,000,000 India Shubhankar Sharma (3) n/a
2 Apr BTI Open Bangladesh 3,500,000 Bangladesh Siddikur Rahman (5) n/a
8 Apr Pune Open Maharashtra 3,000,000 India Harendra Gupta (5) n/a
4 Jun Louis Philippe Cup Karnataka 12,000,000 India S. Chikkarangappa (9) n/a
6 Aug TAKE Solutions Classic Uttar Pradesh 5,000,000 India Rashid Khan (7) n/a
12 Aug PGTI Players Championship (Classic) Haryana 3,000,000 India Khalin Joshi (3) n/a
9 Sep Eagleburg Masters Karnataka 3,000,000 India S. Chikkarangappa (10) n/a
16 Sep Ahmedabad Masters Gujarat 3,000,000 India Rashid Khan (8) n/a
7 Oct PGTI Masters Haryana 5,000,000 India Ashok Kumar (13) n/a
14 Oct Chennai Open Golf Championship Tamil Nadu 4,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (18) n/a
22 Oct TAKE Open Golf Championship Karnataka 10,000,000 India S. Chikkarangappa (11) n/a
4 Nov PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) West Bengal 3,000,000 India Karandeep Kochhar (1) n/a
13 Nov Chief Ministers Meghalaya Open Golf Meghalaya 4,000,000 India Honey Baisoya (1) n/a
19 Nov IndianOil Servo Masters Golf Assam 3,500,000 India Honey Baisoya (2) n/a
26 Nov CG Open Maharashtra 10,000,000 India Shamim Khan (10) n/a
4 Dec Panasonic Open India Delhi US$400,000 India Mukesh Kumar (19) 14 ASA
18 Dec Tata Open Jharkhand 7,500,000 India Shubhankar Sharma (4) n/a
25 Dec McLeod Russel Tour Championship West Bengal 15,000,000 Thailand Pariya Junhasavasdikul (n/a) 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 India Rashid Khan 4,479,880
2 India Shamim Khan 4,116,458
3 India Shubhankar Sharma 3,921,598
4 India Khalin Joshi 3,578,965
5 India Honey Baisoya 2,733,720

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. ^ ASA − Asian Tour.

References

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  1. ^ "2016 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. ^ "2016 Rolex Rankings". Professional Golf Tour of India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Rashid Khan Wins PGTI Order of Merit in a Fateful Year". News18. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Khan slipped one position to second after mixing four birdies with two bogeys yesterday before finishing with a final round of 72 to win the Order of Merit with season's earnings of Rs 44,79,880.
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