Golf World Rankings of Indians

[ajay]

Well, Vijai Singh plays for Fiji. I know that he originated in India but he plays for Fiji. So why is he in this ranking lists.

The list is of players we follow here. Vijay Singh (and Daniel Chopra) have a good following among the forum members, just like Neha or Sunitha in tennis. We also followed Sikha and P$ at a time when they were not Indian citizen.

[India1989]

That's good that they follow this forum. Atleast they are of Indian origin. But only if Indian government let them play for Indian then it would have been so good.

Keep up the good work Vijai, Daniel, Neha, and Sunitha.

[gbelday]

846. Gaurav Ghei

Does Gaurav still play on the tour? I remember seeing his name about 15 years ago (along with Rohtas Singh). That name just bought back some memories back from the days when I was following golf in India (when we didn't have anyone doing that good on the asian/world tour)

[ajay]

Gautam, if you follow Asian Tour thread, you'll see that Ghei has been quite active on Asian tour. Gaurav will always be remembered for being the first Indian to play a major tournament when he qualified for British Open in 1997. Gaurav also beat Colin Montgomerie in the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St Andrews as India stunned Scotland at the home of golf.

Gaurav is 37, so he has some golfing years in him. He has played 13 tournaments so far in 2005, although his performance has not been too good this year. Here are his results for 2005

Mercuries Taiwan Masters   T12 
 Taiwan Open   T49 
 Singapore Open   MC 
 Volkswagen Masters-China   T24 
 Brunei Open   T16 
 Macau Open   MC 
 S K Telecom Open   MC 
 BMW Asian Open   MC 
 Standard Chartered Indonesia Open   T19 
 Thai Airways Int Thailand Open   T65 
 Myanmar Open   T19 
 Carlsberg Malaysian Open   MC 
 Caltex Masters pres by Carlsberg   T81 

[gbelday]

Ah. Thanks Ajay. I admit I haven't followed the Asian thread that closely other than just giving it a glance once every few weeks!! I'll do now!

[PKBasu]

Gaurav sadly has failed to live up to the enormous promise he showed as a teenager (when he was among the best in the world in his age group, a la Sania Mirza and Karan Rastogi in tennis in later times...). But he remains a game trier on the APGA tour.

[zulu400]

Shiv Kapur finished 17th in the Asian order of merit. I think he deserves a big round of applause for that, and as Daniel mentioned during the chat session, Shiv is certainly the guy to look out for....

[BSharma]

World ranking as of November 6, 2005

2. Vijay Singh 10.77
146. Jyoti Randhawa 1.08
156. Dinesh Chand 1.03
162. Daniel Chopra 0.97
175. Arjun Atwal 0.92
364. Jeev Milkha Singh 0.37
449. Shiv Kapur 0.26
553. Gaurav Ghei 0.17
653. Arjun Singh 0.11
661. Amandeep Johl 0.10
673. Ashok Kumar 0.10
712. Harmeet Kahlon 0.08
725. Rahil Gangjee 0.08
849. Digvijay Singh 0.05
851. Mukesh Kumar 0.05

[India1989]

Jyoti Randhawa went down. OH well next time he will improve.

[BSharma]

Shiv Kapur was ranked #919 on May 1, 2005 and is at #200 seven months later. Golf rankings are based on the number of tournaments played over two years with a minimum of 40 tournaments to be used for calculation purpose, and Shiv has played only 23 tournaments. His total points earned were divided by 40 instead of 23 and yet he managed the #200 spot in the world.

World ranking as of Dec 11, 2005

1 Tiger Woods, USA 17.39
2 Vijay Singh, Fij 10.06
3 Phil Mickelson, USA 8.40
4 Retief Goosen, SAf 8.02
5 Ernie Els, SAf 7.88
6 Sergio Garcia, Spn 7.38
7 Jim Furyk, USA 5.91
8 Adam Scott, Aus 5.07
9 Colin Montgomerie, Sco 4.86
*******************************
123 Jyoti Randhawa, Ind 1.26
138 Dinesh Chand, Fij 1.17
159 Arjun Atwal, Ind 0.96
174 Daniel Chopra, Swe 0.88
200 Shiv Kapur, Ind 0.79
372 Jeev Milkha Singh, Ind 0.35
459 Gaurav Ghei, Ind 0.25
682 Arjun Singh, Ind 0.09
692 Ashok Kumar, Ind 0.09
727 Amandeep Johl, Ind 0.08
757 Rahil Gangjee, Ind 0.07
759 Harmeet Kahlon, Ind 0.07
860 Digvijay Singh, Ind 0.05
864 Mukesh Kumar, Ind 0.05

[*sridinats*]

NOt only that now Shiv is the 10th highest ranked Asian!!!

Way to go Shiv

Sridhar

[PKBasu]

Meteoric rise for Shiv Kapur, suggesting he is a remarkably consistent player who rarely wastes his starts. I hope he qualifies for the big tours soon -- either EPGA or PGA. Joint EPGA/APGA events would be a good place to start for the APGA's 2005 Rookie of the Year.

[India1989]

Good rise by Shiv Kapoor and Jyoti Randhawa. keep up the good work.

[ajay]

Good rise by Shiv Kapoor and Jyoti Randhawa. keep up the good work.

Yup, Jyoti too had a good rise. He still have a better ranking than any other Indian ever had. I'm not sure but quite probably IIRC the best ever ranking byIndian after Jyoti, is by Jeev, which was probably in 130s.

[BSharma]

Final world ranking of 2005:

2. Vijay Singh, Fij 9.78
123 Jyoti Randhawa, Ind 1.25
139 Dinesh Chand, Fij 11.14
155 Arjun Atwal, Ind 0.96
175 Daniel Chopra, Swe 0.87
187 Shiv Kapur, Ind 00.82
376 Jeev Milkha Singh, Ind 0.34
460 Gaurav Ghei, Ind 0.24
678 Arjun Singh, Ind 0.09
683 Ashok Kumar, Ind 0.09
724 Amandeep Johl, Ind 0.08
753 Rahil Gangjee, Ind 0.07
755 Harmeet Kahlon, Ind 0.07
856 Digvijay Singh, Ind 0.05
886 Mukesh Kumar, Ind 0.04