BENGALURU: For the first time in the country's golf history, India's top professionals and amateurs will pit their skills against each other when the trials to pick the Asian Games squad gets under way at the KGA here on April 25.
With the Olympic Council of Asia throwing the doors open for the professionals to compete at the Asian Games - where only the amateurs took part since it made it to the Asiad fold in 1982 - the Indian Golf Union, the governing body of the sport, had no choice but to make changes to the selection process to pick the strongest team for the quadrennial event in Hangzhou, China, from September 10-25.
