Australia first country to offer amateurs prize money
Starting this season, the Australian Amateur and Australian Junior Amateur will have players competing for prize money. The prize money has been set at A$ 1350 (Rs 70,000 approx) for both male and female champions. The runners-up will receive A$1000, ( Rs 53,000 approx) and third-place finishers A$750 (Rs 40,000 approx). For the Australian Amateur, […]
Belgium savour maiden World Cup title; India T-10
Two Thomases—Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry—went to Melbourne with a lot of hope but winning it all would not have crossed their mind before the beginning of the second day of the ISPS Handa Melbourne World Cup of Golf (November 22-25) at The Metropolitan Golf Club, Melbourne when they held the top spot. After all, […]
Top-5 finish for India Seniors in Japan
Following on from their respective performances in the IGU All India Senior Tournament that was held on July 13 at Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort, Greater Noida the senior amateur team comprising current champion Rishi Narain, former winners Amit Luthra and Vijay Kumar Bhadana, and 1983 Cricket World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev represented India at […]
Thomas shines at World Amateur Team Championship
The biennial World Amateur Team Championship at Carton House, Ireland was a learning experience for the young Indian contingent. The boys’ team comprising Aadil Bedi (aged 17), Kshitij Naveed Kaul (17) and Rayhan Thomas (18) finished T-31. Thomas, who is the highest ranked Indian on the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), recorded the best-ever score […]
Shubhankar, Anirban to represent India at World Cup of Golf
The 59th edition of the US$7 million World Cup of Golf (November 22-25) will feature 28 nations. Each country will be represented by two golfers. Shubhankar Sharma, the highest ranked Indian (108 on OWGR as of September 24), has automatically qualified and partnering him will be Anirban Lahiri (ranked 112). The four-day event will take […]
Women’s Golf : June 2018
Diksha posts India’s best-ever score at Asia-Pacific Championship In a highly-competitive tournament where Indians have traditionally struggled, 17-year-old Diksha Dagar returned with the best numbers ever by an Indian golfer at the 40th Queen Sirkit Cup Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Golf Championship, which concluded in Thailand on May […]