The recently commenced Indian Golf Premier League (IGPL) made a huge statement of its intentions by staging the US$ 500,000 Bharat Classic 2025 Gujarat as an official event on the Asian Tour at Kensville Golf Resort in Ahmedabad. As part of the arrangement with the Asian Tour , the 4 top IGPL ranked players will get entry to the Asian Tour Qualifying School Final Stage.
The tournament saw 58 Indians in the 108 man field, including 26 IGPL pros and other Asian Tour members, including last year’s Asian Tour Final Qualifying Stage Indians who did not qualify for the main tour.
In the end, four Indians finished in the top-10 in Gujarat, where Sachin Baisoya carded rounds of 67-74-70-62 to register a tied-3rd finish, three-strokes behind winner Poosit Supupramai of Thailand, who carded rounds of 66-69-66-69 to win the title at 18-under 270.
The final round 62 from Baisoya also stands as the new course record at Kensville and earned him US$ 23,412 (₹21 lacs) to move to second place on the IGPL rankings with ₹70.57 lacs in earnings so far.
Yuvraj Sandhu, the current PGTI rankings leader, carded rounds of 72-66-69-67 for a seventh place finish at 14-under 274.
Amateur Ishaan Chawhan from Mumbai, a former winner of the IGU’s Western India Amateur Championship in 2022, shot rounds of 67-69-68-71 to register a tied-8th finish alongside Patna’s Aman Raj, a multiple winner on the IGPL and a former Asian Tour member who earned US$ 10,833(₹9.7 lacs) for the week and now leads the IGPL rankings with ₹72.87 lacs in earnings.
Pukhraj Singh Gill and 15 year old Kartik Singh round up the top-4 players on the season rankings so far with only one event to go.
Gaganjeet Bhullar, the record 11-time winner on the Asian Tour, decided to miss the Bharat Classic event but is currently playing the IGPL event this week at Glade One Resort in Ahmedabad.
A total of 33 Indian players made the cut. Notable names to miss the cut, which went at two over par, included promising teenagers Kartik Singh (+3) and Veer Ganapathy (+6) who both turned pro this summer.
Photo – Sachin Baisoya
