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Article: Now, PGTI lambasts European Tour.
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- June 12, 2007
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Now, PGTI lambasts European Tour
New Delhi, June 12 (PTI) What should have been a cause for celebration is quickly becoming one for acrimony with the Professional Golf Tour of India accusing its European counterpart of "breaching the protocol" in awarding an event to India.
The European Tour yesterday announced its first sanctioned event in India, a whopping USD 2.5 million Indian Masters to be held in February next year. But instead of joy, it has resulted in outrage.
PGTI's grouse was that the European Tour had awarded the event to the Indian Golf Union, the country's apex body for the sport, without consulting them or the Asian Tour, the ...