2018 European Tour

[Sin Hombre]

Jeev has been well short-charged by the Indian media over the years.

Started late with an unorthodox technique and not having the distance in an era of perfect swings and players able to drive 300+ on demand, and his run between 2006 and 2008 was the best by an Indian in a global sport in the last couple of decades. Never really got the recognition he deserved.

[Omkara]

In Individuals event, I think Viswanathan Anand has won $1M+ as prize money at the World Chess Championship.

But that ain't so sport! Maybe a "game" at best. Not a sport. Doesn't count

There it goes again. But if the pay check is 1.6 m, will i be bothered whether it's a game or sports.

[arjun2761]

Of course, Anirban had a chance in late 2016 to become the first Indian to win $1M+ in a single tournament in prize money at the CIMB classic where he was leading by 4 going into the final round and "choked" badly in the front 9 to finish T3 which still earned him $406K.

Some of Anirban's top prize money finishes above $300K include
- PGA championships T5 2015 $367K
- CJ T5 2017 $303K

Anirban also had a couple of big money finishes on the European tour in 2015, winning the Maybank Malaysia event for around $500K and the Hero Indian Open for around $250K. So, Anirban has 6 prize money winnings above 250K while Jeev also had 6 (although I wonder if Jeev had some more in the Japan Tour where the prize money is decent). Given that Anirban is significantly earlier in his career and has been in the more competitive PGA tour for the last 2 years, he will likely have a stronger overall career than Jeev who never really made his mark on the PGA tour.

[Saniapower]

Anirban will leave everybody else far behind in terms of total prize money earned. He plays on the PGA tour and he has been competitive.

[prajgolf]

At HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship, Shubhankar Sharma had a decent start and is tied for 55th position. He scored 2 birdies and a bogey for his 1 under par score for Round 1.

[prajgolf]

Round 2 of Abu Dhabi Championship, Shubhankar Sharma scored a 2 under par round today and has jumped 11 places to T44.

[prajgolf]

Round 3, Shubhankar Sharma scored a 2 under par round again. However he could not improve on his overnight position and remains T44.

[arjun2761]

Good to see Shubhankar play the European tour now that he can enter most events after his title win in SA. Making the cut is a good start and hopefully he can get a top 30 finish with a strong final round.

[prajgolf]

Shubhankar Sharma scored a even par final round and has finished the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship T48.

This is a decent performance considering that this event had one of the strongest playing field.

Also, the OWGR had awarded 52 ranking points to the winner of this event which is higher than this week's PGA Tour event of CareerBuilder Challenge where the winner would be getting 40 points.

Next week, he will playing at the Dubai Desert Classic. He will be joined by SSP Chawrasia and Rayhan Thomas.

[prajgolf]

Shubhankar Sharma has climbed to a career high ranking of 192 after his decent performance at the Abu Dhabi Championship.

The Top 6 ranked Indians as of 21-Jan-2018 are as follows:

71 Anirban Lahiri
158 Gaganjeet Bhullar
192 Shubhankar Sharma
200 Shiv Kapur
203 Ajeetesh Sandhu
221 SSP Chawrasia

[prajgolf]

$3 million Dubai Desert Classic

Round 1 Scores:

T42 Shubhankar Sharma -3
T69 SSP Chawrasia -2
T118 Rayhan Thomas +1

Decent start for Shubhankar Sharma and SSP.

[prajgolf]

$3 million Dubai Desert Classic

Round 2 Scores:

T29 Shubhankar Sharma -7 (5 holes left)
T82 SSP Chawrasia -3 (5 holes left)
T108 Rayhan Thomas -1 (11 holes left)

Round 2 has suspended for today due to darkness.
Cut would be around 5 under par.

[arjun2761]

Good to see Shubhankar continue his strong play on the European tour. The other two have their work cut out to make the cut.

[prajgolf]

$3 million Dubai Desert Classic

Round 2 Scores:

T38 Shubhankar Sharma -6
------missed cut-------
T87 SSP Chawrasia -1
T131 Rayhan Thomas +6

Round 2 has concluded. SSP Chawrasia and Rayhan Thomas have missed the cut.

[prajgolf]

Shubhankar Sharma had a 1 under par round 3 and has slipped to T55.