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PGTI:Topstars in fray in the inaugural edition of Trident Open 2025
The Statesman
|November 09, 2025
Leading Indian professionals such as 2025 PGTI Ranking leader Yuvraj Sandhu, Arjun Prasad, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Angad Cheema, Om Prakash Chouhan, and Manu Gandas will be in the fray in the inaugural edition of the Trident Open golf tournament, which will be held at the Chandigarh Golf Club from November 11 ~ 14, 2025. The tournament carries a prize purse of INR 1 crore.
The event was jointly announced by the Trident Group and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), the official sanctioning body of professional golf in India, on Saturday. The tournament will be preceded by the Am-Am event on November 8 and the Pro-Am event on November 9.
Besides Yuvraj Sandhu and Angad Cheema, the Chandigarh Tricity will be represented by the likes of Jairaj Singh Sandhu, Akshay Sharma, Ravi Kumar, Abhijit Singh Chadha, Brijesh Kumar, Raunil Kukar, Anant Singh Ahlawat, Amrit Lal, Chandarjeet Yadav, Brashwarpal Singh, Umed Kumar (PGTI NEXGEN Order of Merit champion), Vasu Sehgal, and Vishav Pratap Singh Gill, to name a few.
This story is from the November 09, 2025 edition of The Statesman.
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