Other Indian Golfers thread

[prajgolf]

Megha Ganne is playing Junior/Amateur Golf.

Last week she won the 2021 Rolex Junior Player of the Year.

[arjun2761]

19 year old Akshay Bhatia won his first start on the Korn Ferry tour. 3rd youngest player to win on the tour after Jason Day and Sung Jae Im.

Seemingly he had a girl caddy for him who knew nothing about golf a few months ago. Perhaps, an Instagrammable experience for her?

[prajgolf]

Avani Prashanth becomes 1st Indian woman to play Augusta Women's Amateur final round.

Megha Ganne missed the cut.

https://thebridge.in/amp/golf/avani-pra ... ound-30414

[prajgolf]

Diksha Dagar has won a gold medal at the 2022 Deaflympics. Previously, in the 2017 edition she had won a Silver medal.

[suresh]

Diksha Dagar has won a gold medal at the 2022 Deaflympics. Previously, in the 2017 edition she had won a Silver medal.

Congratulations to Diksha. Playing on the professional tour has clearly helped her.

[arjun2761]

Viraj Madappa is playing the inaugural LIV Golf event in England.

He finished T-30 but picked up a check for $156K. The last placed player in field of 48 picked up $120K.

Apparently, some crazy money is being put out by the Saudi government to sportswash their regime. Several big PGA tour players have received guaranteed signing amounts of $100MM or more. Rumors are that Tiger Woods was offered close to $1 BN which he apparently turned down.

[Prem]

LIV Golf is going to create a big headache for all the current established golf tours.
PGA Tour has already suspended around 17 players for playing this event incl. Dustin Johnson, Mickelson, Oosthuizen, Garcia, Schwartzel, Poulter, Westwood etc.
DeChambeau, Patrick Reed are next to join livgolf.

Prize money is insane. The winner won USD4.75 million in total for a 3 round event this week in London.
Last placed player with a score of 24 over!!! a whopping 31 shots behind the winner still gets $120,000!! Viraj Madappa qualified as he finished top 6 in an Asian Tour event the previous week and pocketed $154,000 with a score of +9, which probably would have been a missed cut and 0 earning in a normal event. Each event has a prize money of $25 million…

The prize money is on top of signing on fees ranging from $200 million for Mickelson, 150 million for Dustin, 135 for DeChambeau…..
Just a comparison- Dustin Johnson has won $75 million career money for a career considered very successful and here he gets signing on fees double his career earnings….

Let’s see where and how this ends.

[Atithee]

It’s like the Kerry Packer of cricket. It will have a lasting impact; make no mistake.

[prajgolf]

15 year old Avani Prashanth is now ranked 96 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Last 2 weeks she played back to back amateur events in Australia and finished T6 and T17.

She is the fourth Indian golfer to reach top-100 rankings. Previously, Aditi was ranked 11, Guari Monga 90 and Vani Kapoor 93.

[prajgolf]

Avani is now ranked 92 in World Amateur Golf Rankings.

She has played 3 times on the European Tour and has made the cut all 3 times. 2 times she has finished in top-15.

[prajgolf]

43rd Queen Sirikit Cup

Round 2 scores:

Team Leaderboard

1 South Korea -7
2 India -3
T3 China E
T3 Japan E
T3 Hong Kong E

Individual Leaderboard:

1 Avani Prashant -10
T24 Vidharti Urs +7
T32 Nishna Patel +14

Avani has taken a massive 7 shot lead in the individual leaderboard. Team India is currently second.

The Queen Sirikit Cup, officially the Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Golf Team Championship, is an annual amateur team golf championship for women. India has never won or finished as a runner-up at this event.

[sameerph]

So, it is an indication of what to come at Asiad right ? Does the field consist of all the best Asian ametuer golfers ? If it so, that is good news. Don't think we have even won a medal in Asiad in womens golf.

[prajgolf]

The Asiad was an top-amateur event. However, last year Olympic Council of Asia opened doors for the professional golfers in Hangzhou.

Aditi & Tvesa Malik have qualified as top-2 Indian golfers and Avani has qualified through qualifying event.

There is a real chance for a medal this year in women's event.

[sameerph]

Oh,ok. Great that Aditi will be there. Hope she makes up for narrowly missing on the olympic medal here. Avani Prashanth looks reallly talented considering she is only 15.

[arjun2761]

Aditi on current form should be a medal contender at the Asiad. However, with the Koreans, Japanese, Thais etc., women's golf in Asia is quite strong.

This is one sport we could actually invite the Russians and Belorussians.