Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Golf News

At € 1M Joburg Open 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa (European Tour 2018)

Picture Credit to Asian Tour
1 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 69 61 65 69 -23 € 161,790

Shubhankar Sharma produced a brilliant, nerveless performance in the final round to win his first European Tour title at the weather-delayed Joburg Open and with that, he punched his ticket to The Open (British Open) in 2018 ... Before this, Shubhankar has five wins on the Professional Golf Tour of India and can now add a European Tour victory in just his tenth event, having achieved eight top tens on the Asian Tour including the co-sanctioned UBS Hong Kong Open two weeks ago ... Shubankar is now the first Indian to win in South Africa ... He also holds the record as the first Asian to lift the Joburg Open trophy ... With this win, Shubhankar also sealed the European tour card for next three years and the Asian tour card for two years.

2 comments:

Hundu said...

south africa is not in europe how come it is europian tour???

Jay said...

Hi Hundu,

This was one of co-sanctioned tournament with the Sunshine tour (Southern Africa tour) ... The European tour also organize co-sanctioned tournaments with the Asian tour and the PGA tour of Australasia.

Jay

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