Club Round-up: January 2018
[To share news on your club or updates from across the country, please email Rohit and Karthik] JAMSHEDPUR Kumar Wins AWS Winter Golf Event Held at Golmuri Golf Course, the 2017 AWS Winter Golf Tournament was a gala affair with over 180 men and women golfers from Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Kolkata and Delhi. The course was […]
Diksha Dagar, Neha Tripathi Sign Off 2017 With Wins
AMATEUR DIKSHA TRIUMPHS IN FINAL LEG 16-year-old Diksha Dagar completed a wire-to-wire victory after a third successive sub-par round in the final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at ITC Classic Golf & Country Club. The left-handed amateur carded a round of 2-under 70 and took her three-day total to 9-under 207, winning […]
Ashlan Ramsey Savours India Sojourn
Ashlan Ramsey knew from the fifth grade that being a professional golfer was her life’s ultimate ambition. She went on to become the No. 1-ranked amateur in 2013 before turning pro. And there has been no looking back since. Currently on her maiden visit to India, Dannon Martis of Golf Digest India caught up with […]
Fit Sharmila Raring To Go
India’s women’s professional golf circuit was missing her for some time. But a fitter and determined Sharmila Nicollet is now ready to take on the world. The 12-time champion on the Hero Women’s Pro Tour is training in the US under coach Gary Gilchrist to boost her chances of winning an international crown soon. “It’s […]
Juniors Make Merry At Faldo Series India Qualifiers
The IIFL Wealth Golf Invitational-Faldo Series India kicked off its series of club selection rounds across the country from the last week of November. The qualifiers offer golfers an opportunity to book a spot in the India Final of the Faldo Series as only the top-10 in each age category of the year-end IGU Order […]
Rohana, Dharma, Shamim Among December Winners
PROFESSIONAL GOLF TOUR OF INDIA Rohana’s Steely Resolve Pays Off Sri Lankan Anura Rohana’s steely resolve in ‘Steel City’ Jamshedpur saw him cruise to a four-shot victory at the 16th TATA Open, a Rs. 1 crore event. Rohana returned a clinical final round of 2-under 69 to total 19-under 265 for the week and, as […]
Volvo WGC 2017: Chandigarh Pair Book World Finals Ticket
The 9th edition of the Volvo World Golf Challenge concluded at Prestige Golfshire last month. And vying for a spot at the World Final next year in Sweden were the 18 winners from across 9 cities who played the National Final in Bengaluru. The Volvo World Golf Challenge began its 9-city tour in the first […]
Golfing To Educate Rural India
Isha Golf Jaunt 2017 Golfers at Willingdon Golf Club, Mumbai, and Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Kolkata, were pleasantly surprised last month to see men, women and children standing silently at each hole, and holding a placard that read ‘Isha Vidhya’. For it was a special occasion – the Golf Jaunt. Organised by Sadhguru and Isha […]
Lucky Chikka Retains Asian Tour Card
Chikkarangappa S. secured the final Asian Tour card for 2018 after finishing tied 20th at the Indonesian Masters. The Indian was ecstatic with the result which pushed him to 61st position on the Order of Merit and immediately thanked his good friend and former Order of Merit winner Anirban Lahiri for helping him rise to […]
Ahmedabad Becomes Anirban’s New Training Base
Gujarat’s capital Ahmedabad has become the new training base for World No. 69 Anirban Lahiri. The well-travelled golfer who was earlier based out of Bengaluru has been training at the most awarded golf course in the country — Kalhaar Blues & Greens — since the start of December. The shift of base has to do […]