Kolkata, Aug 10 (IANS) Coal India Limited and the Professional Golf Tour of India (DP World PGTI), the official sanctioning body of men’s professional golf in India, will be jointly staging the second edition of the Coal India Open from August 11 to 14, 2026, at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata.
The tournament offers a total prize purse of Rs 1 crore.
The event will have a field of 132 players, including 131 professionals and one amateur. The impressive field at the tournament will feature leading Indian professionals including PGTI Order of Merit leader Saptak Talwar, Veer Ahlawat, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas, Khalin Joshi, Shaurya Bhattacharya and defending champion Angad Cheema, to name a few.
The leading foreign professionals in the field are Sri Lankans N. Thangaraja and Mithun Perera, Thailand’s Tanapat Pichaikool, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai and Subash Tamang, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, Americans Dominic Piccirillo and Koichiro Sato, Japan’s Koichiro Ishika and Taiga Tanaka and Ugandan Joshua Seale, to name a few.
The field includes some prominent names from the host city of Kolkata, including Shankar Das (former PGTI Order of Merit champion), Rahil Gangjee, Viraj Madappa, Mohammad Sanju, Divyanshu Bajaj, 2026 DP World PGTI NexGen Order of Merit Champion Sunit Chowrasia, Feroz Ali Mollah, Indrajit Bhalotia, and Karan Verma.
Amandeep Johl, CEO, DP World PGTI, said, “The staging of the second edition of the Coal India Open bears testament to Coal India’s strong commitment to Indian professional golf and its belief in the growth and development of the sport. We thank Coal India for providing our professionals with a valuable, competitive platform at the revered Tollygunge Club, further enhancing the stature of the current DP World PGTI season. We are confident that this year’s edition will build on the success of the inaugural event and showcase the very best of Indian professional golf in the sports-loving city of Kolkata.”
The first edition of the Coal India Open was staged in Ahmedabad last year.
–IANS
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