Mumbai, Apr 23 (UNI) Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) president Kapil Dev has said that the support from Tata Group helped Indian Golf and considerably improved the sport in India Kapil, who led India to win Cricket World Cup in 1983, called on TATA Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran at Bombay House, the headquarters of Tata Sons here, on Tuesday, and personally expressed his gratitude to him for the TATA Group’s unwavering support and invaluable contribution to the growth of professional golf in India, a PGTI release said on Wednesday.
The long-standing partnership between PGTI and the TATA Group has helped elevate the standard of the sport in India, the cricket legend opined.
TATA Steel had been a tournament title sponsor on the PGTI since the latter’s inception in 2006. Then in 2019 TATA Steel came on board as the Umbrella Partner of the PGTI.
TATA Steel has been sponsoring PGTI’s year-end Tour Championship, featuring an elite field, since 2019. The TATA Steel Tour Championship continues to be the richest event on the PGTI as it offers a prize purse of Rs 3 crore. The event has been staged at the pristine Beldih & Golmuri Golf Courses in ‘Steel City’ Jamshedpur from 2019 onwards.
Kapil, accompanied by PGTI CEO Amandeep Johl, presented a plaque to N Chandrasekaran as a gesture of PGTI’s appreciation for TATA Group’s leading role in creating more playing opportunities for professionals in India.
The PGTI president also presented the TATA Sons chairman with a Coffee Table Book highlighting the nearly two-decade long association between the PGTI and TATA Steel.
