Gaganjeet Bhullar eyes another win as IGPL tour arrives in Vizag

Gaganjeet Bhullar leads a 60-player field at the Green Fuels Maritime Invitational 2026 in Vizag. The two-time winner this season will face several title contenders, including Pukhraj Singh Gill, amid rain-related uncertainty over the tournament's opening day

Hyderabad: Gaganjeet Bhullar, already a two-time winner this season and a five-time winner on the fledgling AM Green IGPL Tour, is looking for more glory.

The most successful Indian on the Asian Tour, with 11 wins, leads the elite field of franchise golf league IGPL, which has arrived in Visakhapatnam this week for the Green Fuels Maritime Invitational 2026 at the East Point Golf Club.

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Presented by the home franchise, Vizag Dolphins GC, this week’s event brings together a competitive field of 60 professionals, including 10 women, and six amateurs.

The city, which was recently hit by a cyclone, witnessed further rain on Monday, disrupting practice sessions. More rain is expected overnight, but the course has held up well and has become very challenging.

“We are hopeful of play beginning tomorrow, but the final call will be taken in the morning, depending on whether it rains overnight. However, we are confident of having 54 holes, as the weather later in the week is expected to be better,” said Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO of AM Green IGPL.

With the race for the overall season title and the individual championship heating up in the second half of the season, all eyes are on the league’s dominant force, Bhullar, alongside a strong contingent of proven tournament winners and title contenders, including Pukhraj Singh Gill, who has just secured his Asian Tour card for 2027.

Bhullar, who plays for Chennai Lions, said, “The field has been very competitive each week and the wins have not come easy. The conditions with a lot of rain will also make things challenging over the next few days.”

Gill, who finished in the top 10 of the Asian Development Tour to earn a place on the Asian Tour for 2027, is confident that his form will help him secure his first AM Green IGPL win in 2026. He won once in 2025.

“I am in good form and am looking forward to a fruitful week after some solid results outside India,” he said.

Other winners from this season in the field include Aryan Roopa Anand (AM Green IGPL Congo), Udayan Mane (AM Green IGPL Johannesburg), Sachin Baisoya (AM Green IGPL Mauritius) and Arjun Prasad (AM Green IGPL Qutub, Delhi).

Current season winners missing this week are Indian-American Varun Chopra (Ras Al Khaimah), Swede Charlie Lindh (Bharath Classic) and Thailand’s Tanapat Pichaikool (Morocco Rising Stars), besides the in-form Karandeep Kochhar.