Tag: Diksha Dagar

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

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.

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.

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.