Tag: Aditi Ashok

Five years ago, Aditi Ashok was a wide-eyed teenager and the youngest competitor in the women’s golf event at the Rio Olympics.

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.

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.

Delhi girl Sifat Sagoo qualified for the semi-finals of the 2021 Women’s Western Amateur, joining a growing list of Indians making a mark on golf courses worldwide.

Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok head for the Tokyo Olympic Games boosted by power performances on the PGA Tour and LPGA respectively this week.

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.

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

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

Former Asia number one Anirban Lahiri moved into the top five with a second solid round in a row at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio on Saturday.

Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok took contrasting routes into the weekend rounds at the Valero Texas Open and ANA Inspiration on Friday.

Holi is a time of colour, joy and celebration. It also heralds the onset of spring with its attendant outburst of renewal and regeneration from Mother Nature.

Aditi Ashok completed a satisfying return to the US LPGA Tour, taking a share of 23rd place at the Drive On Championship in Ocala, Florida, on Sunday.

Braving the smoggy conditions, members of the Noida Golf Course have been turning out in good numbers for the ongoing NGC Yatharth Diwali Cup.

Adt Ashok leads a squad of four Indians at the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic that tees off later under lights at the Emirates Golf Club on Wednesday.

The Indian contingent may have limped out of the year’s first major but there was cheer in the news that Aditi Ashok was an Arjuna awardee.

Strong winds greeted the field for the 44th AIG Women’s Open at Royal Troon on Thursday with the Indian contingent struggling with conditions.

She will be teeing off alongside many of the world’s best players in a couple of days, so for Tvesa Malik, every step of her sojourn in Britain has been a learning curve.

For the first time, three Indians – Aditi Ashok, Tvesa Malik and Diksha Dagar – will appear at a golf major together, it was confirmed on Saturday.

Tvesa Malik and Shubnahkar Sharma survived into the weekend rounds of their golf tournaments in Scotland and Wales respectively.

Tvesa Malik marked a debut to remember on the Ladies PGA Tour and was well placed to make the cut in the $1.5 million Ladies Scottish Open on Friday.

The Ladies Scottish Open which tees off on Thursday has three Indians – Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar and Tvesa Malik – in an LPGA field for the first time.

With the corona-virus pandemic pushing the Tokyo Olympic Games back by a year, there will be a new set of qualifying dates for the golf medals in Japan next year.

Three-time Ladies European Tour winner Aditi Ashok returned the day’s best card to finish in a share of fourth place at the Women’s NSW Open in Dubbo, Australia, on Sunday.

Diksha Dagar continued to impress at the Women’s New South Wales Open in Dubbo, even as her likely Tokyo Olympics team-mate Aditi Ashok made a dramatic move up the leader-board on Friday.

Diksha Dagar returned a 3-under par 69 to sit in tied fifth place two shots behind the leaders after the first day of the Women’s New South Wales Open in Dubbo, Australia, on Thursday.