Lahiri, Aditi head for Tokyo Olympics with form in the pocket

Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok head for the Tokyo Olympic Games boosted by power performances on the PGA Tour and LPGA respectively this week.
Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok head for the Tokyo Olympic Games boosted by power performances on the PGA Tour and LPGA respectively this week.
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.
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.
Tvesa Malik ensured a third career top-10 finish on the Ladies European Tour with shared tenth-place at the Italian Open in Piedmont on Sunday.
Tvesa Malik carded a 6-under par 66 on day two of the Ladies Italian Open on Saturday to climb into the top five even as Diksha Dagar made the cut in her return to action.
Tvesa Malik made a steady start to the 2021 Ladies European Tour season with a level-par card in the opening round of the Investec South African Women’s Open in Cape Town on Thursday.
Already a winner and runner-up from her two 2021 starts, Pranavi Urs starts as favourite t Bombay Presidency Golf Club on Wednesday.
Amandeep Drall led the field for a second straight day in the final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Classic course on Thursday.
Women pros will be back in action after nearly nine months in the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at NGC from Wednesday.
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.
Courage and determination are the hallmarks of some entrants of this year’s Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic, golfers who have set a sporting example.
Hours after one season ended on the PGA Tour, the next is set to begin. On stage is Anirban Lahiri and elsewhere, India’s other golf stars return to action as well.
Tvesa Malik put away the disappointment of a missed cut at the AIG Women’s Open with a 20th place finish at the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open on Sunday.
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.
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.
Aditi Ashok was the best-finishing Indian in the Australian Ladies Classic at the Bonville Golf Resort on 3-under par on Sunday.