GURUGRAM: He is the man in form, having pocketed a fab Rs. 4.56 crore (approx) from two wins in the area of a couple of months. Shubhankar Sharma, 21, goes into the Hero Indian Open, the rustic’s marquee golf match, as out-and-out favourite.
The Indian Open will be on the town next week, with the rustic’s main players, including Sharma, protecting champion S S P Chawrasia, Anirban Lahiri and Shiv Kapur, being joined by way of best internationals.
The fiddly Gary Player course, on the town’s DLF Golf and Country Club, will play host to the $1.75 million match.
This will be the first look Indian galleries can have of Shubhankar Sharma following his recent breakthroughs. He turned into the rustic’s youngest global winner in December 2017, when he outlasted the field on the Joburg Open in South Africa. Two months on, he added a win in the Maybank Championship in Malaysia, ultimate with a brilliant 62 after beginning the final day four again.
At No. 75 on the earth, Sharma is now the very best ranked Indian professional, having overtaken Lahiri (now No. 79) at the again of his win in Kuala Lumpur. He also currently heads the Race to Dubai at the European Tour, and the Asian Tour’s Habitat for Humanity standings. This week, the Chandigarh guy will be in Mexico City for his World Golf Championships (WGC) debut. The WGC events, a notch beneath the majors, attract the arena’s easiest players, and Sharma will be desperate to turn out he belongs of their company when he tees off on the $10 million WGC-Mexico Championship.
“I could not have imagined this going down (three months ago). I wouldn’t have imagined myself enjoying at the European Tour, let on my own a WGC match. That’s how the sport is,” Sharma instructed the Asian Tour. “When you play just right, the rest is possible. You want the ones small breaks and I were given the ones breaks in Johannesburg and Malaysia. That presentations you the rest is possible. You simply must stay operating exhausting.”
Among the global contingent taking a look to play birthday party poopers are Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee, a one-time Indian Open winner, Thomas Bjørn, the present Europe Ryder Cup captain, Argentine Emiliano Grillo, a winner at the PGA Tour (and member of the International workforce, alongside Lahiri, in the 2017 Presidents Cup), and 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke.
The 54th version of the Indian Open, sanctioned by way of the European and Asian excursions, will be played from March eight to 11. Indians have loved luck here for three straight years, with Chawrasia successful in 2017 and 2016, and Lahiri in 2015.
Fans streaming in through the gates at DLF G&CC will be hoping the streak continues. Failing that, they’ll be happy with a thrilling Sunday finish.
The Indian Open will be on the town next week, with the rustic’s main players, including Sharma, protecting champion S S P Chawrasia, Anirban Lahiri and Shiv Kapur, being joined by way of best internationals.
The fiddly Gary Player course, on the town’s DLF Golf and Country Club, will play host to the $1.75 million match.
This will be the first look Indian galleries can have of Shubhankar Sharma following his recent breakthroughs. He turned into the rustic’s youngest global winner in December 2017, when he outlasted the field on the Joburg Open in South Africa. Two months on, he added a win in the Maybank Championship in Malaysia, ultimate with a brilliant 62 after beginning the final day four again.
At No. 75 on the earth, Sharma is now the very best ranked Indian professional, having overtaken Lahiri (now No. 79) at the again of his win in Kuala Lumpur. He also currently heads the Race to Dubai at the European Tour, and the Asian Tour’s Habitat for Humanity standings. This week, the Chandigarh guy will be in Mexico City for his World Golf Championships (WGC) debut. The WGC events, a notch beneath the majors, attract the arena’s easiest players, and Sharma will be desperate to turn out he belongs of their company when he tees off on the $10 million WGC-Mexico Championship.
“I could not have imagined this going down (three months ago). I wouldn’t have imagined myself enjoying at the European Tour, let on my own a WGC match. That’s how the sport is,” Sharma instructed the Asian Tour. “When you play just right, the rest is possible. You want the ones small breaks and I were given the ones breaks in Johannesburg and Malaysia. That presentations you the rest is possible. You simply must stay operating exhausting.”
Among the global contingent taking a look to play birthday party poopers are Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee, a one-time Indian Open winner, Thomas Bjørn, the present Europe Ryder Cup captain, Argentine Emiliano Grillo, a winner at the PGA Tour (and member of the International workforce, alongside Lahiri, in the 2017 Presidents Cup), and 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke.
The 54th version of the Indian Open, sanctioned by way of the European and Asian excursions, will be played from March eight to 11. Indians have loved luck here for three straight years, with Chawrasia successful in 2017 and 2016, and Lahiri in 2015.
Fans streaming in through the gates at DLF G&CC will be hoping the streak continues. Failing that, they’ll be happy with a thrilling Sunday finish.
Will it be a Shubhankar show? Indian Open to tee off in city
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March 02, 2018
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