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The squad and franchise announcement for the AM Green India Golf Premier League saw the organisers expanding the fig of events from 11 to 15 for the season, including 5 overseas, though the docket and different logistics are yet to beryllium finalised.
The format means the golfers volition beryllium playing astatine some the squad and idiosyncratic level simultaneously done the year. Each squad has 4 players competing for idiosyncratic prizes from a excavation of ₹1.5 crore at each lawsuit portion besides representing their team.
The 2 champion scores from each squad each time volition number towards the squad placings. Points volition beryllium accumulated implicit the play with the apical 3 astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth rewarded.
“Last twelvemonth we had 11 events due to the fact that we had little time. This year, we person gone up to 15 events, to beryllium held done the year, with 10 astatine location and 5 overseas.
“The determination was taken to besides springiness capable clip to our players to effort and ore connected events extracurricular India connected the higher tours — International Series, Asian Tour and others — and astir apt effort and enactment successful Qualifying Schools for the European Tour oregon elsewhere,” IGPL CEO Uttam Singh Mundy explained.
However, not each apical players connected the IGPL tour person signed up for the league arsenic good with seasoned Gaurav Ghei, Shiv Kapur and Gaganjeet Bhullar being the lone marquee names. The archetypal 3 planetary venues volition beryllium successful Mauritius, South Africa and Congo aboriginal this month.
“There is simply a batch of young endowment retired determination that needs vulnerability and eventually, successful the adjacent 5-10 years, they volition get determination internationally,” said co-founder and erstwhile cricketer Yuvraj Singh.
The squads: Mumbai: Aman Raj, Udayan Mane, Aadil Bedi, Tushar Pannu. Goa: Varun Chopra, Saarthak Chhibber, Aalaap I.L., Kanav Chauhan.
Kolkata: Varun Parikh, Sukhman Singh, Syed Saqib Ahmed, Kartik Sharma. Vizag: Manav Shah, Dharma M, Milind Soni, Danish Verma.
Bengaluru: Veer Ganapathy, Sunhit Bishnoi, Trishul Chinnappa, Sudhir Sharma. Gurugram: Pukhraj Singh Gill, Shaurya Binu, Shat Mishra, Digraj Singh Gill.
Punjab: Karandeep Kochhar, Kapil Kumar, Harendra Gupta, C. Muniyappa. Hyderabad: Sachin Baisoya, Raghav Chugh, Arjun Bhatti, Ranjit Singh.
Delhi: Shiv Kapur, Aryan Roopa Anand, Chiragh Kumar, Gaurav Ghei. Chennai: Gaganjeet Bhullar, Yashas Chandra M.S., Samarth Dwivedi, Harshjeet Singh Sethie.
