Golf news, views and India happenings
The acronym WHS – the World Handicap System – has been registering on and off. For a while, I let it slide, but with the Indian Golf Union involved too, it seemed a good time to take a closer look.
Udayan Mane took the 2019 Tata Steel PGTI Tour Championship down to the wire before winning it by a single shot at the Golmuri Golf Course in Jamshedpur on Sunday.
The freezing temperatures seem in no way to have deterred NGC members who have turned out in record numbers for the Oil India New Years Cup.
Patna Golf Club’s Aman Raj soared into the lead in the Rs 1.5 crore, Tata Steel PGTI Tour Championship with the day’s best card of 9-under par 63 at Jamshedpur on Friday.
Sri Lanka’s N. Thangaraja returned a cracking 9-under par round of 63 in the Rs 1.5 crore Tata Steel PGTI Tour Championship in Jamshedpur on Friday to take a one-shot lead into the weekend.
Kapil Kumar, in solid form these past few weeks, set a blistering pace at the Rs 1.5 crore Tata Steel Tour Championship in Jamshedpur on Thursday, blazing his way to a 10-under 62 at the Golmuri course.
The PGTI season-ending Rs 1.5 crore Tata Steel Tour Championship will be played at Jamshedpur’s Golmuri Golf Course from Thursday to Sunday.
Sneha Singh completed a double of national titles, adding the 103rd All India Ladies Amateur Championship crown to the junior championship she had won earlier this month.
Abhinav Lohan earned his breakthrough win on the Tata Steel PGTI by a one-shot margin in the Bengaluru Open Golf Championship at the Karnataka Golf Association course on Friday.
Karandeep Kochhar grabbed a two-shot lead at 11-under par 205 with a day to go of the Bengaluru Open at the Karnataka Golf Association course on Thursday.
Trishul Chinnappa, Sudhir Sharma and Kapil Kumar set up a three-way tie for the halfway lead of the Bengaluru Open Golf Championship at the Karnataka Golf Association course on Wednesday.
Aryan Roopa Anand delivered on his long-standing promise with a first-ever double at the just-concluded 119th All-India Amateur Matchplay Golf Championship.
Sri Lanka’s Mithun Perera scored a hard-fought victory in the inaugural edition of the ICC RCGC Open Golf Championship at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club on Sunday.
Tiger Woods knew he had to set the tempo with Team US trailing 8-10 in Sunday’s singles. He also knew he had to be there at the finish if they were to halt a determined young International team.
Team USA fought back in Saturday afternoon’s foursomes to cut the Internationals’ lead to 10-8 on the penultimate day’s action in the Presidents Cup at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
Tiger Woods won his second match but the young guns on the opposite side were a match for the second day in a row as the Internationals continued to lead USA in the Presidents Cup.
The Internationals opened up a shock 4-1 lead over defending champions USA on day one of the Presidents Cup at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club on Thursday.
Kartik Sharma has come in for high praise from Internationals captain Stuart Appelby after his display in the just-concluded Junior Presidents Cup played in Melbourne on Saturday and Sunday last..
It is a foggy Sunday dawn, but spirits are high at the Hindan golf course as the Jacks have gathered to do battle with the Morgans.
Justin Leonard’s Team US survived a furious final day fightback by the Stuart Appelby-led Internationals to retain the second Junior Presidents Cup 13 matches to 11 at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club on Monday.
Aditi Ashok brought in her second runners-up result in two weeks as she finished one shot behind Magical Kenya Ladies Open winner Esther Henseleit at Vipingo Ridge in Mombasa on Saturday.
Patrick Reed found himself in a boatload of trouble for a rule infringement in round three of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas and was penalised two shots on Friday.
A bogey-free second round after Wednesday’s rollercoaster brought Tiger Woods right back into the mix at the $3.5 million Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Thursday.
Vinay Kumar Yadav of Chittaranjan Locomotive Works emerged individual champion and his team retained their title in the 64th All India Railways Golf Championship.
Setting foot on the Lodhi Course of the Delhi Golf Club for a fresh round is always something of a thrill for a golf nut, even a devotedly bad golfer such as yours truly.