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2010 Professional Golf Tour of India

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2010 Professional Golf Tour of India season
Duration25 January 2010 (2010-01-25) – 18 December 2010 (2010-12-18)
Number of official events22
Most winsIndia Ashok Kumar (4)
India Mukesh Kumar (4)
Order of MeritIndia Ashok Kumar
2009
2011

The 2010 Professional Golf Tour of India, titled as the 2010 Aircel Professional Golf Tour of India for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth season of the Professional Golf Tour of India, the main professional golf tour in India since it was formed in 2006.

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 2010 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
()
Winner[a]
28 Jan American Express Bangladesh Open Bangladesh 2,000,000 Bangladesh Siddikur Rahman (4)
5 Feb Aircel PGTI Players Championship (Tollygunge) West Bengal 4,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (9)
7 Mar Aircel PGTI Players Championship (Panchkula) Haryana 4,000,000 India Sujjan Singh (1)
13 Mar Solaris Chemtech Open Golf Championship Haryana 4,000,000 India Shiv Chawrasia (2)
11 Apr SRF All India Matchplay Championship Delhi 2,500,000 India Shamim Khan (3)
7 May PGTI Players Championship (Bombay Presidency) Maharashtra 3,000,000 India Gaganjeet Bhullar (6)
14 May PGTI Players Championship (Aamby Valley) Maharashtra 3,000,000 India Anirban Lahiri (3)
25 Jun Aircel PGTI Players Championship (Poona) Maharashtra 4,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (10)
2 Jul Aircel PGTI Players Championship (Oxford) Maharashtra 4,000,000 India Anirban Lahiri (4)
3 Sep PGTI Players Championship (Chandigarh) Haryana 2,500,000 India Mukesh Kumar (11)
10 Sep PGTI Players Championship (Golden Greens) Haryana 2,500,000 India Chiragh Kumar (1)
19 Sep DLF Masters Haryana 9,500,000 India Ashok Kumar (8)
9 Oct Global Green Bangalore Open Karnataka 4,000,000 India Ashok Kumar (9)
15 Oct Aircel PGTI Players Championship (Willingdon) Maharashtra 4,000,000 India Raju Ali Mollah (1)
23 Oct Haryana Open Haryana 4,000,000 India Vijay Kumar (1)
30 Oct BILT Open Karnataka 10,000,000 India Anirban Lahiri (5)
7 Nov LG Race to Ireland Uttar Pradesh 3,000,000 India Mukesh Kumar (12)
13 Nov IndianOil XtraPremium Masters Golf Assam 2,500,000 India Shankar Das (1)
21 Nov Tata Open Jharkhand 5,000,000 India Ashok Kumar (10)
27 Nov DDA Open Golf Championship Delhi 3,000,000 India Ashok Kumar (11)
11 Dec CG Open Maharashtra 8,000,000 India Mandeo Singh Pathania (1)
18 Dec LG Masters of PGTI Delhi 10,000,000 India Chiragh Kumar (2)

Order of Merit

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The Order of Merit was titled as the Rolex Rankings and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Indian rupees.[2][3]

Position Player Prize money ()
1 India Ashok Kumar 5,394,125
2 India Mukesh Kumar 4,319,917
3 India Anirban Lahiri 3,736,208
4 India Vijay Kumar 3,696,125
5 India Shamim Khan 3,647,075

Notes

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  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Professional Golf Tour of India events they had won up to and including that tournament.

References

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  1. ^ "2010 Tournament schedule". Professional Golf Tour of India. Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  2. ^ "2010 Order of Merit". Professional Golf Tour of India. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Chiragh Kumar bags the LG Masters of PGTI in style". The Times of India. 18 December 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Ashok Kumar finished tied 12th to end the year as the number one on the Rolex Rankings with total earnings of Rs. 5,394,125.
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