Lahiri’s 2021 PGA Tour campaign comes to a close
Photo: Pro Golf Now Pro Golf – PGA Tour Anirban Lahiri, who last week successfully qualified for the first of 3 stages of the PGA Tour’s season ending FedExCup Playoffs, shot scores of 69-69-71 at the US$ 9.5mn Northern Trust, and barring a final round 62 will not go forward to the next stage. The […]
Lahiri makes it to FedEx Cup Playoffs
Pro Golf – PGA Tour 34-year-old Anirban Lahiri defended his top 125 place in the Fedex Cup rankings on the PGA Tour by making the cut and finishing tied-46th at the US$ 6.4mn Wyndham Championship with scores of 67-69-67-70 (7-under 273). His US$ 18,000 (₹ 13.3 lacs) cheque brought his regular season earnings to US$930,661 […]
PGA & European Tours strengthen ties
Pro-Golf – PGA Tour The PGA Tour recently announced 48 tournaments on its 2021-2022 schedule, which begins with the Fortinet Championship in Napa Valley, California from Sep. 16-19 and includes three co-sanctioned events with the European Tour which will count on both Tour’s rankings and official prize money. The three events are the Barbasol Championship, […]
Indian origin Theegala makes cut in California
Pro Golf – PGA Tour Pepperdine University graduate and the 2019 US men’s Collegiate player of the Year, 23-year-old Sahith Theegala finished 34th at the US$ 3.5mn Barracuda Championship on the PGA Tour to earn US$18,200 (₹13.5 lacs) for his third best performance of the season on the tour. The tournament was played in a […]
Amazing stories behind golf’s Olympic medals
Tokyo Olympics The Men’s Olympic golf event came to a thrilling finish in Tokyo on Sunday as American star Xander Schauffele held his nerve to win by one stroke with a solid 18 under par performance. However the silver medalist, Rory Sabbatini, playing for Slovakia provided some fireworks with an amazing 10 under par 61 […]
July 27, 7.30 pm – World’s Top Coach talks to Indian golfers
Interview After the overwhelming success last month of the live Q&A with amateur lady superstar of Indian origin, Megha Ganne, India Golf Weekly has now arranged a live webinar with Claude Harmon, coach to superstars Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and others. The time is Tuesday evening, 7.30 to 8.30 pm Indian Time, where Claude will […]
Golf at 2021 Tokyo Olympics
In photo – Team India – Chikkarangappa S. (Anirban’s Caddie), Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane & Rupesh Pardeshi (Mane’s caddie) / Photo: IGU/Chikkarangappa S. Olympics A total of 120 golfers; 60 men and 60 women from over 35 countries will be representing their flags at the Olympic golf competition over the next two weeks in Japan. […]
Sahith Theegala and his PGA Tour journey this season
Global Indians Pepperdine graduate and the US men’s Collegiate player of the Year, 23-year-old Sahith Theegala (of Indian origin), is working on his pro career and made his first PGA Tour start in June 2020. California born Sahith has so far played seven events on the Korn Ferry Tour in USA and made cuts in […]
Morikawa wins with putting exhibition
The Open 24-year-old American Collin Morikawa put on a putting exhibition under pressure with a bogey free final round to claim the Open championship title and hold off a charging Jordan Spieth, who himself was holing putts from all over the greens. . Morikawa shot 67-64-68-66 (15-under 265) to claim the Open Championship on his […]
Anirban Lahiri picks up over US$200,000 with 3rd place finish
PGA Tour Anirban Lahiri took full advantage of the absence of the top names , who were all playing The Open Championship over in England, to secure an invaluable 3rd place finish with rounds of 68-67-68-65 (20-under 268) at the US$ 3.5mn Barbasol Championship to pick up a cheque of over US$206,000 (Rs 1.5 crores […]