NEW DELHI, April 21: After some uncertainty, the SRF Open golf will finally be held at the Delhi Golf Club from Thursday. The tournament, hitherto known as the DCM Open and a regular event on the Professional Golf Association of India's tour, was to have been held in March and for some time there was even talk among golfers that the tournament might be called of this year. The reason: economic recession.The event will finally be held and almost all the leading stars with the exception of the Indian Open champion, Feroz Ali, will be playing the tournament, which is the 19th stop on the PGAI Tour. Feroz, who played in China last week, is going to Japan for another tournament.
Gaurav Ghei, who was out for more than a month because of muscle pull sustained during the second round at the Indian Open in Calcutta, will be back in action. Ghei is the defending champion here.
The field includes Vijay Kumar, the current leader on the Order of Merit on the PGAI Tour with nearly Rs 11 lakh in prize money and theIndian regulars on the Asian PGA Tour like Arjun Atwal, Arjun Singh, Kanwar Sekhon and Amandeep Johl.
Others are SIEL Open champion Vivek Bhandari, 1996 DCM Open winner, Amritinder Singh, former Indian Open winner, Ali Sher, Mukesh Kumar, Jyoti Randhawa and Indrajit Bhalotia. The winner of the SRF Open will get Rs 1,16,620.
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