Hero Indian Open, the most important golf event the nation hosts, was on Friday cancelled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, co-sanctioned by the European Tour, was earlier scheduled to be held from March 19 to 22 in Gurugram however was postponed. The women’s Indian Open was also cancelled on Tuesday because of the pandemic. “Retaining in thoughts the well being and security of everybody as prime most precedence, now we have determined to cancel this 12 months’s Hero Indian Open,” Devang Shah, Chairman of the Indian Golf Union (IGU), advised PTI.
“We’ve got made the choice after due session with our sanctioning accomplice European Tour.” Shah stated they’d deliberate to host the occasion someday in October however had been pressured shelve the plan due to the worsening COVID-19 scenario within the nation.
“It’s turning into critical daily, so we determined to cancel this 12 months’s event after session with European Tour. It is going to now be held in 2021,” Shah stated.
IGU performing president Lt Gen D Anbu (Retd) stated it was a really robust choice however they needed to take it contemplating the well-being of everybody.
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“It was a really troublesome choice, however the appropriate one below the current circumstances of the continued pandemic. With no chance of any respite within the foreseeable future, safeguarding the well being and well-being of all gamers, officers and spectators is of paramount significance,” he stated.
The Hero Indian Open was established by the IGU in 1964 and is among the oldest working worldwide sports activities occasions within the nation. It has been a European Tour-sanctioned event since 2015.
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