26-year-old Karandeep Kochhar, a multiple winner on the PGTI from Chandigarh who has now started playing on the newly started Indian Golf Premier League (IGPL), sealed an automatic spot on the main 2026 Asian Tour, finishing 5th in the ADT season rankings after the Asian Development Tour’s (ADT) season finale, the US$ 250,000 Aramco Invitational in Saudi Arabia.
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Kochhar made 10 appearances in ADT events in 2025, anchored by a win at the Egypt Golf Series – Red Sea Open last month and a runner-up at Morocco Rising Stars 1 earlier in June. Those two peak results did the heavy lifting—proof that one win and one near-miss, timed right, can swing a season.
His rise also keeps an Indian pipeline rolling through the ADT route. Kochhar becomes the third straight Indian to graduate to the Asian Tour via the ADT rankings pathway, following Yuvraj Sandhu in 2023 and Rahil Gangjee in 2024. Sandhu finished eighth on the 2023 ADT list with one win, while Gangjee went third in 2024 with two titles—and Kochhar now adds 2025’s chapter with his own top-five finish.
Next up for Kochhar is the step that matters: translating his form to the stronger competition and high stakes Sundays of the Asian Tour in 2026. We wish him the best of luck.
