The SAIL-SBI Open was a

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tournament on the

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, played in

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between 2008 and 2014. It was co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India. The title sponsors were

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(SAIL) and

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(SBI). The inaugural tournament was played at Jaypee Greens Golf Resort in

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, before moving to the

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designed Signature Course at Classic Golf Resort, just outside Gurgaon, near

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in 2009. Since 2010, the tournament has been played at the

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. In 2009,

Chapchai Nirat Chapchai Nirat ( th, ชัพชัย นิราช; born 5 June 1983) is a Thai professional golfer. Chapchai is the son of a Thai national team golfer, and turned professional in 1998 as a fifteen-year-old. He won for the first time as a pr ...

, set a new Asian Tour scoring record when he captured the title with a 32-under-par aggregate of 256.

Winners

Notes

References

External links

Coverage on the Asian Tour's official site
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