Panchkula’s Angad Cheema continues top form, wins PGTI’s main tour title in Ahmedabad

“Winning back-to-back PGTI titles is a special feeling. It gives me a lot of confidence for this year. I was all about winning and believing in myself this whole week and I am glad that I could win the title here. The course here was playing long as it was raining most of the time. The fairways were also slow and I had to adjust my game accordingly. To win the title here with a four-shot lead will give me a lot of confidence,” shared Cheema while speaking with The Indian Express from Ahmedabad.

The Panchkula-based golfer, who had become the All India Amateur Champion by winning the 111th edition of the All India Amateur Golf Championship at Chandigarh Golf Club in 2012, started playing the sport at the age of 13 with his father Brigadier A S Cheema sending him to Army Golf Course at Wellington, a city where he was also posted during that time.

In 2011, Cheema was a part of the Indian team that won a bronze medal in the Nomura Cup in Fiji after a gap of 18 years and was also instrumental in helping the Indian team win the SAARC Golf Championship in Jaipur the same year.

He had won his first PGTI title as a professional in the form of Dialog Enterprise Invitational on the PGTI tour apart from winning the Jaipur PGTI Feeder Tour event the same year. Last year, the golfer won a PGTI title after a gap of 11 years when he had won the Vizag Open. Earlier in April this year, Cheema won the Kapil Dev Grant Thornton Invitational 2025 with a score of 20-under-196 after the end of three rounds. It was his biggest win in terms of prize money as he pocketed a cheque of Rs 30 lakh.

Cheema said that winning the title at Vizag last year gave him a lot of boost in terms of motivation as well the winning edge on the professional circuit.

“Working with my coach Jesse Grewal and trainer Lavish Chaudhary also meant that I was in good shape. The Kapil Dev Grant Thornton Invitational was played under a new format with three rounds including 60 men and 12 women apart from amateur golfers, and the win was special in my career too as it came in a new format,” the golfer further said.

Post the win in April, Cheema also played in one of the Final British Open Qualifiers at West Lancashire and finished tied 43rd. While Cheema currently does not have an Asian Tour or DP World Tour card, the PGTI title win this year means that he will most likely play in the DP World Tour’s inaugural India Championship in October in Delhi — an event where five-time major winner Rory Mcllroy will also be playing.

“Playing in the British Open Final Qualifiers helped me a lot in terms of understanding the different conditions. I will be playing on the PGTI tour including the Trident Open to be played in Chandigarh in November later this year. I hope I will be able to play in the DP World Tour’s inaugural India Championship in October too based on my PGTI Order of Merit points and I will then decide at the year end to go for Asian Tour or European Tour qualifying,” Cheema concluded.