Hero WPGT resumes at Clover Greens with record sized field

By Rahul Banerji

Action resumes on the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour with a record field in the eighth leg at Clover Greens in Hosur (Tamil Nadu) from Wednesday.

With 35 professionals and five amateurs, the field of 40 players is the biggest ever on the Indian domestic women’s tour.

The event carries a purse of Rs.12 lakh and the cut will be applied after two rounds at the excellent Clover Greens layout that also sits close to Bangalore.

It will be the first Hero WPGT tournament at the venue since the seventh leg of the 2019 season, won by Gaurika Bishnoi, who is also in the field this week.

Amongst those who will be closely watched is Tvesa Malik, who is hoping to regain form and return to the Ladies European Tour.

She is among the multiple winners in the field, which despite the absence of Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs, Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall, and Ridhima Dilawari, is a strong one.

While Pranavi is playing on the Epson Tour in the US alongside Nishtha Madan and Nikita Arjun, the others are in Europe.

Fresh faces

The women’s pro circuit will also get another boost as no less than five players – four Indians and a Sri Lankan – are set to make their professional debut.

Vrinda Yadav, Yaalisai Verma, Snigdha Goswami and Rishika Muralidhar, and Sri Lanka’s Taniya Balasuriya will all be playing in their first professional event.

The field includes three of six winners from the ongoing season. Headed by Sneha Singh, the only repeat winner in 2023, the others are Gaurika Bishnoi and Seher Atwal.

Seher now divides her time between the Hero WPGT and the Ladies European Tour and will also feature in the Singapore Ladies Masters next month.

Round 1 tee times

8 am: Geetika Ahuja, Khushi Khanijau

8:10 am: Gaurika Bishnoi, Rhea Jha

8:20 am: Agrima Manral, Jyotsana Singh, Rishika Muralidhar

8:30 am: Riya Yadav, Keerthana Rajeev (A), Durga Nittur

8:40 am: Vrinda Yadav, Gauri Karhade, Mehar Atwal

8:50 am: Anvitha Narender (A), Suchitra Ramesh, Karishma Govind

9:05 am: Kriti Chowhan, Saanvi Somu (A), Neha Tripathi

9:15 am: Aaradhya Shetty (A), Tvesa Malik, Asmitha Sathish

9:25 am: Shweta Mansingh, Ravjot K Dosanjh, Disha Kavery

9:35 am: Marshneil Prasad, Seher Atwal, Anisha Agarwalla

9:50 am: Ayesha Kapur, Ishvari Prasanna, Yaalisai Verma

10 am: Sneha Singh, Ayushi Dutta (A), Sachika Singh

10:10 am: Snigdha Goswami, Hitaashee Bakshi, Ananya Datar

10:20 am: Rhea Purvi S., Jasmine Shekar, Taniya Balasuriya

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