Golf: Large field ready for action as Women's Pro Tour returns to Hosur for eighth-leg

Hosur (T.N.), June 13 A record field gets into action mode with the eighth leg of the Hero Women's Professional Golf Tour as professional golf returns to the Clover Green here for the first time since 2019.

With 35 professionals and five amateurs, the field of 40 players is the highest ever on the Indian domestic women's Tour.

The event carries a big purse of Rs.12 lakh and the cut will be applied after two rounds at the excellent layout at Clover Greens in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.

Clover Greens will be hosting its first WPG Tour event since the seventh leg of the 2019 season of the Tour. The winner then was Gaurika Bishnoi, who is once again in the field this week.

Tvesa Malik, who will also tee up, is hoping to regain her form and get back to the Ladies European Tour. She is among the multiple winners in the field, which despite the absence of some players like Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs, Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall and Ridhima Dilawari, is very strong. While Pranavi is playing on the Epson Tour in the US alongside two other Indian pros, Nishtha Madan and Nikita Arjun, the others are in Europe.

The depth of Indian women's golf will get another boost as the event will see no less than five players make their pro debut, of which four are Ind and the fifth is a Sri Lankan national. Together with Vrinda Yadav, Yaalisai Verma, Snigdha Goswami and Rishika Muralidhar, Sri Lankan Taniya Balasuriya will also make her pro debut.

The field includes three of the six champions from the ongoing season. Headed by Sneha Singh, the only multiple-time winner in 2023, the other two 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.