~ Season-ending event to feature an elite field of 62 professionals ~

~ Stellar field to include big names of Indian golf – Defending champion Gaganjeet Bhullar, SSP Chawrasia, 2023 Tata Steel PGTI Ranking champion Om Prakash Chouhan, 2024 Tata Steel PGTI Ranking leader Veer Ahlawat, former champion Udayan Mane, Rahil Gangjee, Manu Gandas, Yuvraj Sandhu, ~

~ Prize Purse of INR 3 crore on offer ~

Jamshedpur, December 18, 2024: The Tata Steel Group and PGTI will be hosting the Tata Steel Tour Championship at the Beldih and Golmuri golf courses in Jamshedpur from December 19 to 22, 2024. The tournament offers a prize purse of INR 3 crore, the biggest on the PGTI. The field will feature an elite field of 62 professionals.

The Tata Steel Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the 2024 Tata Steel PGTI season. The tournament is a 72-hole stroke-play championship and there will be no cut applied. There is guaranteed prize money for all participants. The Pro-Am event preceding the tournament was played on December 17.

The format for the event is as follows: In all four rounds, half the field will play their first nine holes at Golmuri and second nine at Beldih while the other half will play their first nine at Beldih and second nine at Golmuri. From round two onwards, the leading/front half of the leaderboard (leading groups as per the scores) will play their first nine holes at Golmuri and second nine at Beldih. The prize presentation ceremony will be held at Beldih Golf Club on Sunday, December 22.

The tournament will feature a glittering field including some of the biggest names in Indian golf such as defending champion Gaganjeet Bhullar (2020 & 2023 champion), SSP Chawrasia, 2023 Tata Steel PGTI Ranking champion Om Prakash Chouhan, 2024 Tata Steel PGTI Ranking leader Veer Ahlawat, former champion Udayan Mane (2019 & 2021 champion), Rahil Gangjee, Manu Gandas and Yuvraj Sandhu, to name a few.

The 2024 Tata Steel PGTI Ranking champion will be announced at the end of the event. The 2024 PGTI No. 1 will earn a full card on the DP World Tour for the 2024 season.

D B Sundara Ramam, Vice President, Raw Materials Division, Tata Steel cum Jamshedpur Golf Captain said, “At Tata Steel, we have always championed sports as a medium to inspire excellence and build communities. Hosting the PGTI tournament in Jamshedpur this year too underscores our commitment to nurturing golf and providing a platform for players to showcase their talent. As the Jamshedpur Golf Captain, it is particularly gratifying to see this championship held on our greens, reflecting our city’s deep connection to the game. We look forward to an exciting weekend of outstanding performance and camaraderie among players and enthusiasts alike.”

Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI, said, “We thank TATA Steel for their unwavering support to the PGTI since its inception. The TATA Steel Tour Championship 2024, the season’s showpiece event featuring the top 60 players in the current Order of Merit along with invitees, promises yet another week of exhilarating golf as a stellar field will descend on the two outstanding venues of Beldih & Golmuri in Jamshedpur to compete for the biggest prize of the season. The event raises further interest among golf fans in the country as it will also decide the 2024 TATA Steel PGTI Ranking champion. We wish the players all the best.”

The two venues, Beldih & Golmuri golf courses, are both lush green, beautiful and very well-maintained, with the charming Dalma Hills in the background. While the Beldih Golf Course flaunts long fairways, Golmuri Golf Course is a smaller, greener, boutique course disallowing golfers any room for error.

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Statements in this press release describing the Company’s performance may be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable securities laws and regulations. Actual results may differ materially from those directly or indirectly expressed, inferred or implied. Important factors that could make a difference to the Company’s operations include, among others, economic conditions affecting demand/ supply and price conditions in the domestic and overseas markets in which the Company operates, changes in or due to the environment, Government regulations, laws, statutes, judicial pronouncements and/ or other incidental factors.

For queries and information

Sarvesh Kumar,
Chief Corporate Communications, Tata Steel,
E-mail : sarvesh.kumar@tatasteel.com

About Tata Steel

• Tata Steel group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 35 million tonnes per annum.
• It is one of the world's most geographically diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world.
• The group recorded a consolidated turnover of around US$27.7 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2024.
• A Great Place to Work-Certified^TM organisation, Tata Steel Limited, together with its subsidiaries, associates, and joint ventures, is spread across five continents with an employee base of over 78,000.
• Tata Steel has announced its major sustainability objectives including Net Zero by 2045.
• The Company has been on a multi-year digital-enabled business transformation journey intending to be the leader in ‘Digital Steel making’. The Company has received the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse recognition for its Jamshedpur, Kalinganagar, and IJmuiden Plants. Tata Steel has also been recognised with the ‘Digital Enterprise of India – Steel’ Award 2024 by Economic Times CIO.
• Tata Steel has been recognised with the World Economic Forum’s Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lighthouse 2023.
• The Company has been a part of the DJSI Emerging Markets Index since 2012 and has been consistently ranked among the top 10 steel companies in the DJSI Corporate Sustainability Assessment since 2016.
• Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur Plant is India’s first site to receive ResponsibleSteel^TM Certification. Subsequently, its Kalinganagar and Meramandali plants have also received the certification. In India, Tata Steel now has more than 90% of its steel production from ResponsibleSteel^TM certified sites.
• Received Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2016-17, 2024 Steel Sustainability Champion recognition from worldsteel for seven years in a row, 2023 Climate Change Leadership Award by CDP, Top performer in Iron and Steel sector in Dun & Bradstreet's India's top 500 companies 2022, Ranked as the 2024 most valuable Mining and Metals brand in India by Brand Finance, ‘Most Ethical Company’ award 2021 from Ethisphere Institute, and ‘Best Corporate for Promotion of Sports’ recognition at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2024.
• Received the 2023 Global ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) Award of Distinction at the RIMS ERM Conference 2023, ‘Masters of Risk’ - Metals & Mining Sector recognition at The India Risk Management Awards for the eighth consecutive year, and ICSI Business Responsibility and Sustainability Award 2023 for its first Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR), Excellence in Financial Reporting FY20 from ICAI, among several others.

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