2013 Asian Tour - Sail-SBI Open: Lahiri wins again

[ajay]

Lahiri made an impressive start for 2013, just like last year as he defended his title in the SAIL-SBI Open at Delhi Golf Club. This is his 3rd win in the Asian Tour in three consecutive years. Also noteworthy performances from 22 yr talented Rashid Khan who lost Lahiri in the playoff. Another India youngster who impressed a lot was 20 yr old Khalin Joshi who lead the tournament halfway and he was in the mix for title contention till the last day and finally finished T11 with a disappointing last hole where he triple-bogeyed. Hopefully, we will hear his name more often in future. The Indian players making it to top 20 are:

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1	 Anirban LAHIRI (IND)  	71	68	66	68	273	-15	$54,000.00	 
2	 Rashid KHAN (IND)     	72	64	71	66	273	-15	$33,000.00	 
4	 Shiv KAPUR (IND)      	69	70	69	70	278	-10	$15,000.00	 
11	Khalin JOSHI (IND)    	66	69	71	76	282	 -6 	$4,747.50	 
15	Shankar DAS (IND)     	73	72	71	67	283	 -5 	$3,725.00	 
15	Vinod KUMAR (IND)     	73	73	66	71	283	 -5 	$3,725.00	 
15	Ajeetesh SANDHU (IND) 	70	70	71	72	283	 -5 	$3,725.00

[PKBasu]

Things have been rather quiet on our golf forum of late. But there is some nice news from the Asian Tour, with Gaganjeet Bhullar winning the Indonesian Open in a canter. Jyoti Randhawa finished 5th, and Anirban Lahiri joint sixth. Here is a report:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131202/j ... pv7oxZvDdk

[Prem]

Congratulations to Gaganjeet on a brilliant wire to wire victory at the Indonesia Open.
He shot a flawless three-under-par 68 to win his first Asian Tour title of 2013 by three shots.
This comes after last place finish last week in Australia.
Good to see a steady Anirban, Shiv and welcome back to form for Jyoti.
Jeev and Arjun had a forgettable 2013 and have 2 events left to do something about it.

[PKBasu]

Here are the latest world rankings of the Asian players:

http://sportstoday.us/Ranking/ranking-g ... nking.aspx

Anirban Lahiri is the top-ranked Indian, ranked 8th in Asia, followed by Shiv Kapur at 11th place and Gaganjeet Bhullar at 17th. Jeev is well down the list at 29th, SSP is 43rd and Jyoti Randhawa just makes the list at 50th in Asia.

[PKBasu]

Here are the latest world rankings of the Asian players:

http://sportstoday.us/Ranking/ranking-g ... nking.aspx

Anirban Lahiri is the top-ranked Indian, ranked 8th in Asia, followed by Shiv Kapur at 11th place and Gaganjeet Bhullar at 17th. Jeev is well down the list at 29th, SSP is 43rd and Jyoti Randhawa just makes the list at 50th in Asia.

[PKBasu]

Bhullar has now moved into fourth place in the Asian Tour Order of Merit for this year -- just one spot ahead of Lahiri. There is one Australian in second place, so Bhullar and Lahiri are the third and fourth-ranked Asians on the list -- which will be used to determine who represents Asia in the inaugural EurAsia Cup. Here is the current Order of Merit for 2013:

http://www.asiantour.com/stats/order-of-merit/

[Prem]

Here are the latest world rankings of the Asian players:

http://sportstoday.us/Ranking/ranking-g ... nking.aspx

Anirban Lahiri is the top-ranked Indian, ranked 8th in Asia, followed by Shiv Kapur at 11th place and Gaganjeet Bhullar at 17th. Jeev is well down the list at 29th, SSP is 43rd and Jyoti Randhawa just makes the list at 50th in Asia.

PKB - that was last weeks rankings. The latest (with few upward movement) is as below:

Asian Rank World Rank Player
7 138 Anirban Lahiri
10 146 Shiv Kapur
12 157 Gaganjeet Bhullar
29 267 Jeev Milkha Singh
43 399 Jyoti Randhawa
45 406 S.S.P. Chowrasia