Chennai, September 7, 2026: The DP World Professional Golf Tour of India (DP World PGTI)
will be staging the Chennai Open 2026 Powered by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
(CPCL) at the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course in Chennai from September 8 – 11, 2026. The event
carries a prize purse of INR 1 crore.
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) is the Powered by Partner for the event and
TNGF Cosmo Golf Course is the Host Venue. The Chennai Open returns for its fifth edition.
The tournament is set to feature some of the top Indian professionals such as Saptak
Talwar, defending champion N Thangaraja of Sri Lanka, Veer Ahlawat, Om Prakash Chouhan,
Manu Gandas, Khalin Joshi, Rashid Khan, Honey Baisoya and Akshay Sharma, to name a few.
Besides Sri Lankan N Thangaraja, the prominent foreign players in the field include Sri
Lankan Mithun Perera, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Thailand’s Tanapat
Pichaikool, Japan’s Koichiro Ishika and Taiga Tanaka, Czech Republic’s Stepan Danek,
Uganda’s Joshua Seale, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Americans Koichiro Sato and Dominic
Piccirillo and Ireland’s Declan Kenny.
The local challenge will be led by Chennai-based professionals S Prasanth, S John Royan,
Ilayaraja C and C Arul.
