AmEx, Amrutanjan sign up as PGTI tour partners; Q School in Jan.

PGTI presser

The Professional Golf Tour of India has brought on board global bank American Express and healthcare company Amrutanjan as new tour partners.

Anirban Lahiri wants the no-win “albatross” off his back

Lahiri and Mane

Anirban Lahiri goes into his fourth FedEx Cup Playoffs starting with the Northern Trust from Thursday keen to end a seven-year winless streak on the PGA Tour.

Aditi Ashok qualifies for AIG Women’s Open, her 19th Major

Aditi Ashok

Following her Olympian feats at Kasumigaseki GC where she missed a Games medal by a whisker, Aditi Ashok has ensured her berth at the upcoming AIG Women’s Open.

PGA Tour opens door to European Tour as part of ‘Strategic Alliance’

Jay Monahan

The PGA Tour and European Tour have unveiled details around their strategic alliance, with the PGA Tour also releasing its 2021-22 season schedule.

Women’s Pro Golf Tour back in action from Aug. 30 at DLF GCC

Tvesa Malik

The Women’s Professional Golf Tour has posted its schedule for August-September with the first event at the DLF Golf and Country Club at the month-end.

OWGR tweak makes it more inclusive, smaller tours to benefit

Karandeep Kochhar

Wednesday’s announcement by the Official World Golf Ranking, OWGR, governing board greatly widening the scope of its points distribution system will benefit players around the world.

PGTI schedule back on stream, starts with Telengana Open from Sept. 2

Udayan Mane prize cheque

The Professional Golf Tour of India returns to life after a lockdown-enforced break of almost exactly six months with the Golconda Masters Telengana Open early next month.

Korda vs Ashok: Head to head at Kasumikasegi’s East Course

Nelly Korda

In terms of statistics, it should be a no-contest in the women’s golf competition of the Olympic Games in Tokyo between Nelly Korda and Aditi Ashok.

Star-struck Diksha Dagar is living her Olympic dream

Imagine being 20, and being handed an opportunity to play out your most heartfelt dream. Little wonder, therefore, Diksha Dagar is floating her way around Tokyo and the Olympic Games.

As disappointed men golfers depart, India’s ladies step up

Udayan Mane

With the men’s golf event having run its course it is time for the ladies to take centre-stage at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Lahiri seeks a miracle to ensure podium, and a Tokyo medal

Anirban Lahiri

There’s been a bit of an anti-climax in the Indian push for golf glory at the Tokyo Olympics with top hope Anirban Lahiri strangely off colour.

Oly Update: Diksha Dagar heads for Tokyo as a late, late inclusion

Diksha Dagar

From Galgorn Castle in Northern Ireland to the Tokyo suburb of Saitama is quite a journey, but when the Olympics call, it becomes one worth undertaking.

Olympic Update: Golf men’s draw out, late start for Mane

Rikuya Hoshino

Udayan Mane will tee off with late inclusion Jorge Campillo of Spain and Ondrej Lieser of the Czech Republic in the opening round of the men’s golf competition of the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.

Olympic Update: Historic Kasumigaseki has fed Japan’s passion for golf

Kasumigaseki Country Club

When golf returned to the Olympics in Brazil five years ago, a new course was designed specifically for the competition.

Covid tests rule Rahm, DeChambeau out of Olympic golf competition

Team Japan

The Tokyo Olympics golf competition was hit with a double whammy over the weekend with Spain’s world no. 1 Jon Rahm and US star Bryson DeChambeau testing positive for Covid-19.

Bangalore Buzz: Golf globe-trotter makes a halt in Garden City

Declan McCollam

Ashleigh Barty may not seem the most obvious opener in a conversation about golf but with Declan McCollam, you get more than what you see.

The game as it was meant to be played: The Open Championship returns

Shane Lowry

For all the gallant efforts and decisions made to stage marquee golf championships during the pandemic of 2020, a massive piece remained missing.

Bangalore Buzz: Mane ‘pinching myself’ on making Tokyo list

Udayan Mane

Bangalore will be well-represented at the golf competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games with all three Indians on the squad connected in one way or another to the Garden City.

Indian Open cancelled over Covid threat for second year running

Stephan Gallacher

The Hero Indian Open, stands cancelled for the second year in a row over Covid-19 related issues, it was confirmed on Friday.

New Zealand were well-prepared for India in WTC finale

New Zealand cricket team

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.

Lahiri aims to make a medal difference for India at Tokyo

Anirban Lahiri

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

‘Best surprise’ says Anirban Lahiri about Tokyo Olympic berth

Anirban Lahiri

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

Remembering Ballesteros’s special moment at ‘Jack’s Place’

Muirfield leader-board

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

Bland wins British Masters to break 19-year title jinx, so there’s hope for all

Richard Bland

It took Richard Bland 23 years to win his first European Tour title. I am now convinced that some day, I’ll hit a golf ball straight five times in a row.

Golf with a heart; for a heart tees off at Delhi Golf Club

Kapil Dev

Rotary Club of Delhi South on Wednesday launched a fund-raiser at the Delhi Golf Club for children suffering from Congenital Heart Defects.