Jamshedpur, 24-12-2025

TATA STEEL GROUP & PGTI ANNOUNCE TATA OPEN 2025

The TATA STEEL Group and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) have announced the TATA Open golf tournament which will be held in Jamshedpur from 25th – 28th December, 2025. The four-day tournament will be hosted at the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur. The event offers a prize purse of INR 2 crore and constitutes the last leg of the 2025 PGTI season.

The tournament will have a field of 126 professionals. The event will be played in the stroke-play format consisting of four rounds of 18 holes each. The top 50 players and ties will make the cut after two rounds.

The TATA Open is one of those rare events in the world which is played across two venues. The format for the event is as follows: In round one, one half of the field will play its 18 holes at Beldih Golf Club while the other half of the field will play its 18 holes at the Golmuri Golf Club. In round two, both halves of the field will switch venues (those who played at Beldih in round one, play eighteen holes at Golmuri in round two and vice-versa). In rounds three and four, after the cut has been applied, the leading groups will tee off from Golmuri and play their first nine holes at Golmuri before moving to Beldih to play their second nine holes.

The tournament will feature some of the top Indian professionals such as 2025 PGTI Order of Merit champion Yuvraj Sandhu, 2024 PGTI Order of Merit champion Veer Ahlawat, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Arjun Prasad, Manu Gandas, Angad Cheema, Om Prakash Chouhan (former champion), Ajeetesh Sandhu, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi and Chikkarangappa, to name a few.

The top foreign players in the field are Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Mithun Perera (former champion), Bangladesh’s Md Siddikur Rahman and Jamal Hossain, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek, American Koichiro Sato, Nepal’s Subash Tamang and Uganda’s Joshua Seale.

Besides Om Prakash Chouhan and Mithun Perera, the other former TATA Open champions in the field are Mukesh Kumar, Shamim Khan and Gurki Shergill.

The local challenge will be led by professional Kurush Heerjee.

Mr. D B Sundara Ramam, Vice President, Corporate Service, Tata Steel cum Jamshedpur Golf Captain, said, “Tata Steel has always believed in the transformative power of sport to inspire excellence and strengthen communities. The return of the PGTI tournament to Jamshedpur this year once again reflects our enduring support for golf and our commitment to offering a platform for emerging and established talent. Incidentally, the tournament reverts to its original identity as the TATA Open, a title last used in 2018, after being held as the Tata Steel Tour Championship between 2019 and 2024.

“As the Jamshedpur Golf Captain, it is a matter of great pride to host this championship on our home course, underscoring the city’s rich golfing legacy. We look forward to an engaging and competitive weekend marked by high-quality play and camaraderie among the golfing fraternity.”

Mr. Amandeep Johl, CEO, PGTI, said, “The PGTI extends our sincere gratitude to Tata Steel for their unwavering commitment to Indian golf and for the revival of the Tata Open—one of the most iconic tournaments in the history of the PGTI. Its return as the season finale in 2025 has added a special significance to the calendar and has rightly made it one of the most eagerly-awaited events of the year.

“The Tata Open 2025 brings together a stellar field of India’s leading professionals competing for a handsome prize purse across the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur. The stage is set for a thrilling week of golf that promises to captivate fans on-site, as well as television and digital audiences across the country and overseas. With PGTI Rankings, playing cards for the next season, and pride on the line, the intensity is expected to reach its peak as players make one final push in a fitting climax to the season. We wish all the players the very best and look forward to an unforgettable Tata Open.”

The two venues, Beldih & Golmuri golf courses, are both lush green, beautiful and very well-maintained, with the charming Dalma Hills in the background. While the Beldih Golf Course flaunts long fairways, Golmuri Golf Course is a smaller, greener, boutique course disallowing golfers any room for error.

Picture Caption:

(L to R) Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sinha, Chief - Safety, TATA Steel, Mr. D B Sundara Ramam, Vice President, Corporate Service, TATA Steel and Captain, Jamshedpur Golf, leading Indian professionals Shaurya Bhattacharya and Yuvraj Sandhu and Mr. Vikas Singh, Director, Marketing & Tour Development, PGTI, pose with the trophy at the Press Conference of the TATA Open 2025 on Wednesday