Hi
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:32 am
Hi Bhushan & Ajay
My name is Sanjeev Mehra and i am the brother of Simi everyone calls me Fatty so there you go. Yes I play golf and do everymorning ..I am one of the top national golfers in the country and play as an amateur as i do not have the time to play all events so i play about 2-3 events in a year and have been the winner of one national event in the country copule of years ago.
i love this game and we have been playing this game in opur family sine ce we were born i think. Girls do play golf in the country however the level is not taht good and certainly the advantage that simi had , the rest will never have. The greates advantage with SImi was that she hit the ball really long and that was because she played with all teh guys and we made her play of the mens tees ..have you guys ever played the Royal Calcutta golf club from the championship tees it is really long 7300 yds .
She is a natural and never had a lesson until she made it to the LPGA and the sad thing is that there were never any people from india or indians anywhere in teh world to back her.
Ironically it was my friends from Bngladesh & Pakistan the Isapahni Family from Bangladesh --Sajid Salman & Shakir 7 their cousin ZIa Mahmood the famous bridge player who got to gether and gave Simi the money to play in the US...thats how it started and then came Arvind Khanna who put his money behind her..
No corporates and no one else who has helped her she has done it on her own and kudos to her and my parents who have stuck with her.
I caddied for her in 94 on the futures tour for the first time when she was there and let me tyell you that it is very tough out there even when she played on teh Lpga thiose girls are awesome it is unthinkable that a girl from india cna make it . I believe that we will not see another woman on teh tour for a very long timne.
Arjun & Simi are best of friends and used to bunk school yogether and play golf and ironically today they stay next to each other and are teh support for each other with tehir spouses..it is great fun i am sure for them ..Daniel and i were best of friends and we toured India together and evn got banned from the angalore golf club years ago..we were roomies and had some great times ..Daniel is going to roost on the tour for a long time his determination and cockiness will keep him there he has also come up the hard way..
Anyway Simi is recovering and we will see how her wrist pans out in the coming week..let me know where you guys come from ...and what you guys do ..also i worked and was the first employee in Tiger Sports Marketing and Joy used to work with me he is a great friend and a good writer
regards
My name is Sanjeev Mehra and i am the brother of Simi everyone calls me Fatty so there you go. Yes I play golf and do everymorning ..I am one of the top national golfers in the country and play as an amateur as i do not have the time to play all events so i play about 2-3 events in a year and have been the winner of one national event in the country copule of years ago.
i love this game and we have been playing this game in opur family sine ce we were born i think. Girls do play golf in the country however the level is not taht good and certainly the advantage that simi had , the rest will never have. The greates advantage with SImi was that she hit the ball really long and that was because she played with all teh guys and we made her play of the mens tees ..have you guys ever played the Royal Calcutta golf club from the championship tees it is really long 7300 yds .
She is a natural and never had a lesson until she made it to the LPGA and the sad thing is that there were never any people from india or indians anywhere in teh world to back her.
Ironically it was my friends from Bngladesh & Pakistan the Isapahni Family from Bangladesh --Sajid Salman & Shakir 7 their cousin ZIa Mahmood the famous bridge player who got to gether and gave Simi the money to play in the US...thats how it started and then came Arvind Khanna who put his money behind her..
No corporates and no one else who has helped her she has done it on her own and kudos to her and my parents who have stuck with her.
I caddied for her in 94 on the futures tour for the first time when she was there and let me tyell you that it is very tough out there even when she played on teh Lpga thiose girls are awesome it is unthinkable that a girl from india cna make it . I believe that we will not see another woman on teh tour for a very long timne.
Arjun & Simi are best of friends and used to bunk school yogether and play golf and ironically today they stay next to each other and are teh support for each other with tehir spouses..it is great fun i am sure for them ..Daniel and i were best of friends and we toured India together and evn got banned from the angalore golf club years ago..we were roomies and had some great times ..Daniel is going to roost on the tour for a long time his determination and cockiness will keep him there he has also come up the hard way..
Anyway Simi is recovering and we will see how her wrist pans out in the coming week..let me know where you guys come from ...and what you guys do ..also i worked and was the first employee in Tiger Sports Marketing and Joy used to work with me he is a great friend and a good writer
regards