PGTI Eagleburg Masters to be fourth ‘Super Series’ event of the 2014 season

• Prize purse of Rs. 40 lakh
• Fourth of seven Super Series events in 2014
• Rashid Khan, Chikkarangappa top names in the field

Eagleton – The Golf Resort, Bangalore, September 29, 2014: The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), ‘the official sanctioning body of professional golf in India’, will stage the PGTI Eagleburg Masters from September 30 – October 3, 2014, at Eagleton – The Golf Resort near Bangalore. The tournament, the fourth of seven Super Series events scheduled in 2014, carries an attractive prize purse of Rs. 40 lakh.

The tournament will feature leading Indian golfers such as reigning Rolex Rankings champion Rashid Khan, current Rolex Rankings leader Chikkarangappa, Shamim Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Om Prakash Chouhan and Shubhankar Sharma, to name a few.

The foreign challenge will be led by Sri Lankans K Prabagaran, N Thangaraja and Bangladesh’s Md Zamal Hossain Mollah.

M Dharma, C Muniyappa, R Murthy, Abhishek Jha, R Srinivas and Gaurav Diwan are the other top Bangalore golfers in the fray besides Chikkarangappa. Chikkarangappa will be playing on his home course as he hails from Eagleton – The Golf Resort.

Seven events will be staged as part of the PGTI Super Series in 2014 with a total prize purse of Rs. 4.3 crore. Points are allocated for each event of the Super Series. The player with the highest points at the end of the seven Super Series events stands to earn a bonus of Rs. 30 lakh. Rashid Khan currently leads the Super Series points table with 1436.5 points. Chikkarangappa is in second place with 1296.4 points followed by Shubhankar Sharma in third place at 1272 points.

Mr. Chetan Meda, Director, Eagleton – The Golf Resort, said, “It gives me immense pleasure to welcome all players to the inaugural PGTI Eagleburg Masters. Eagleton – The Golf Resort provides the ideal setting for India’s best professionals to compete for the high stakes in prize money and Super Series points. We seek to encourage the growth of professional golf in Bangalore and other parts of Karnataka by staging events such as the PGTI Eagleburg Masters.”

Announcing the event, Mr. Padamjit Sandhu, Director, PGTI, said, “A thrilling week of golf lies in prospect at the PGTI Eagleburg Masters as the top names on the PGTI vie for the impressive prize purse of Rs. 40 lakh and crucial Super Series points. We thank Eagleton – The Golf Resort for partnering with us in staging this event and seek to build on our partnership with them with the objective of promoting professional golf in and around the city of Bangalore.”

The venue for the event, Eagleton – The Golf Resort, situated on the Bangalore-Mysore highway, is home to a USPGA standard course. This picturesque course is spread out over 170 acres and has undulating fairways and huge greens with an excellent drainage system. Over 40,000 trees, lush turf and sophisticated fertilization, irrigation and waste water management contribute to a natural and pleasing biosphere.