Big-time golf returns to Tollygunge Club after two years as the Tata Steel PGTI Players Championship gets underway on Tuesday. This is the fourth event of the season and carries a prize purse of Rs 50 lakh. The tournament field consists of 132 players, including 129 professionals and three amateurs.

The stellar field features some of the biggest names in top Indian professionals like Jeev Milkha Singh, SSP Chowrasia, Rahil Gangjee, Olympian Udayan Mane, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa, Ajeetesh Sandhu, Chikkarangappa and defending champion Karandeep Kochhar and PGTI Order of Merit leader Kshitij Naveed Kaul, to name a few.

Jeev will be playing a professional event here for the first time since 2016.

At the previous PGTI Players Championship held at Tollygunge Club in 2016, Karandeep Kochhar, while still an amateur, created history by becoming the youngest player to win on the PGTI .

He was just 17 years and 163 days old. As a result, he also became the first Indian amateur to win on the PGTI. The foreign players competing are Sri Lankans Mithun Perera, Anura Rohana, N Thangaraja and Vijitha Bandara as well as Bangladeshis Md Zamal Hossain Mollah and Badal Hossain.

Besides Chowrasia, Gangjee and Madappa, the other prominent city-based players professionals in the field are Shankar Das, Feroz Ali Mollah, Sunit Chowrasia, Divyanshu Bajaj and Mohammad Sanju. The three local amateurs participating are Rohan Shroff, Samridh Sen and Rahul Batra.

Tee-off: 7am.