Pune, February 9 Vani Kapoor, Ridhima Dilawari, Amandeep Drall, and Sneha Singh will be among the top players who will tee off at the third leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour at the Oxford Golf Resort here.
While Vani won five times in 2025 and topped the Order of Merit, Ridhima has had a strong start in 2026. She finished second to Jasmine Shekar in the opening leg at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club in Mumbai, and won the second leg at Kalhaar Blues & Greens in Ahmedabad.
This golf resort is considered one of the best courses in India and will provide a significant challenge to the 44-player field, who will compete for a substantial prize of Rs 17 lakh. The field includes five amateur players.
Ridhima leads the Order of Merit with earnings of Rs 4 lakh, followed by Jasmine Shekar, who won the opening leg in Mumbai.
Five top Indian players are skipping the event as they are busy with the Ladies European Tour's season opener in Saudi Arabia, where the highly lucrative USD 5 million PIF Ladies International in Riyadh will mark the start of the 2026 calendar.
The Indian players in the field for Saudi Arabia are Diksha Dagar, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs, Hitaashee Bakshi, and Aditi Ashok, who divides her time between the LET and the LPGA.
The field for the third leg also includes Tvesa Malik Sandhu, who is using the domestic Tour to find her rhythm for the Ladies European Tour.
Neha Tripathi, Jasmine Shekar, Khushi Khanijau, and Shweta Mansingh, all of whom are capable of achieving early wins in the season, are also in the field.