Challenge Tour returns to India one year later

The Problem Tour returns to India, one 12 months later, as soon as once more that includes two consecutive occasions organized in collaboration with the Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI). Relations between the 2 associations have resumed after a hiatus since 2013.

The Delhi Problem (14-17 March) will probably be held in Gurugram, adopted by the Kolkata Problem (Kolkata, 21-24 March) the next week. On the Basic Golf Nation Membership, on the championship course designed by Jack Nicklaus together with 9 different holes, 4 Italians will compete: Luca Cianchetti, Gregorio De Leo, Aron Zemmer, and Pietro Bovari.

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Among the many favorites are two seasonal winners, the Swedes Mikael Lindberg, winner of the Cape City Open, and Björn Åkesson, victorious within the earlier NMB Championship, at present ranked first and fourth respectively within the Street To Mallorca (order of benefit).

The sphere contains English gamers Sam Hutsby, Chris Paisley, and George Bloor, French gamers Martin Couvra and Robin Sciot-Siegrist, Australian Hayden Hopewell, and Spaniard Victor Pastor, all of whom are among the many prime 20 on the cash record.

There will probably be 52 Indian gamers taking part, together with Om Prakash Chouhan, who emerged victorious in final 12 months’s Duncan Taylor Black Bull Problem in Bangalore. Among the many Italians, Cianchetti will goal to construct on his robust efficiency within the NMB Championship (seventeenth place), whereas De Leo, Zemmer, and Bovari, coming off two consecutive cuts, might want to step up their sport.

The prize cash quantities to $300,000 (roughly €275,000). The Problem Tour was established in 1986, coinciding with the opening of nationwide excursions in Sweden, France, and Italy to overseas gamers. Initially named the Satellite tv for pc Tour, it underwent a change the next 12 months, in 1989, with the introduction of the Order of Benefit.

This method awarded the highest 5 gamers membership to the European Tour for the following season. In 1990, the tour was formally renamed the Problem Tour, a title already informally utilized in 1989. From its inception till 1993, the Problem Tour rankings have been decided by every participant’s greatest a number of outcomes.

Nonetheless, beginning in 1994, it transitioned to an easy cash record format, the place all outcomes are accounted for. Success on the Problem Tour grants gamers membership to the European Tour for the next 12 months. The highest twenty gamers obtain direct promotion, whereas these rating twenty first to forty fifth may additionally qualify for choose low-prize-money European Tour occasions.

Moreover, they’ve the chance to boost their standing via the European Tour Qualifying Faculty. Gamers who safe victory in three Problem Tour occasions inside a season are expedited onto the principle tour instantly and revel in full exemption for the following season, mirroring the pathway of the US-based Korn Ferry Tour.