Month: June 2021

Aditi Ashok will make her second appearance at the Olympic Games after being named on the Tokyo short-list by the International Golf Federation.

Top Indian woman amateur Anika Varma finished second at the 71st California Junior Girls’ State Championship in Monterey last Friday.

For my generation, the name Korda will always be associated with a beaky, blonde left-handed tennis player from what was then Czechoslovakia.

Diksha Dagar put aside months of pain and disappointment with a shared fourth place finish at the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open in Beroun on Sunday.

India’s eight-wicket defeat to New Zealand at Southampton in the final of the inaugural World Test Championship on Wednesday was ultimately a surrender.

Anirban Lahiri has happily accepted a second opportunity to compete in the Olympic Games men’s golf competition in Tokyo next month.

The last thing Anirban Lahiri would have expected to see was his name on the shortlist for the Tokyo Olympic Games next month.

Destiny’s child Jon Rahm won the 121st US Open in San Diego on Sunday even as Torrey Pines and the pressure-cooker situation consumed his closest challengers.

Akshay Bhatia made his first US Open appearance a memorable one by entering the weekend in dramatic fashion at Torrey Pines on Friday.

Tyro professionals Akshay Bhatia and Sahith Theegala struggled to come to terms with the Torrey Pines’ demands on the opening day of the 121st US Open in San Diego on Thursday.

Few remained untouched by Seve Ballerteros, the charismatic Spanish golfer who died of brain cancer at age 54 almost exactly 11 years ago.

Twenty-five-year-old Manu Gandas, who turned professional in 2015, was on to a good thing before the virus epidemic interrupted the 2020-21 PGTI season.

High-schooler Megha Ganne’s high-profile emergence on the big stage was the latest affirmation that Indian-Americans are beginning to show up regularly on the crowded US golf scene.

Diksha Dagar made the most of a new regime and a recovering back to make a steady start at the Scandinavian Mixed golf tournament in Gothenburg on Thursday.

Yuka Saso equalled history as only the second teenager to win the US Women’s Open on Sunday and said she needed some help from Rory McIlroy to do so.

The more one sees and reads about Megha Ganne’s golf, even from so far away, the more one is convinced that the high school student is one to watch out for in the long run.

Confusion marked the end of day three at the Memorial Tournment with defending champion and leader-board topper Jon Rahm withdrawing after a positive Covid test.

She hit only nine fairways and 10 greens in regulation but Megha Ganne was still good enough to card a 71 and share third place on day two of the 76th US Women’s Open in San Francisco on Friday.

Seventeen-year-old Megha Ganne created waves on the opening day of the 76th US Women’s Open by taking a share of the lead at the Olympic Club in San Francisco on Thursday.

Shubhankar Sharma and Ajeetesh Sandhu are in the field for the European Open that tees off in Hamburg on Saturday due to a late schedule change.