Sunday, August 05, 2018

Golf News

At $1.25M Fiji Internationals 2018, Natadola, Fiji (European Tour 2018)

P.C. to Asian tour
1 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 70 69 69 66 -14 € 132,231
T43 Ajeetesh Sandhu (IND) 73 74 72 71 +2 € 4,443

Gaganjeet Bhullar wins his first European Tour title on his 106th European Tour event and is now exempt until the end of next season after adding to his Challenge Tour win in 2011 and eight Asian Tour victories ... He entered the final day with a one-shot lead but found himself trailing late in the day as Australian Quayle came home in 29 on back-9 and set the target at 13 under in the clubhouse ... A brilliant chip-in eagle on the 17th moved Gaganjeet back into the lead and he held his nerve to par the last and sign for a 66 that gave him a one-shot victory over Quayle, who finished with a brilliant 63 ... Four-time Major Championship winner Ernie Els signed for a closing 65 to finish at 12 under alongside New Zealander Ben Campbel.

This was a tri-sanctioned event, European tour, Australian tour and Asian tour, so with this win, he becomes the first Indian to win on Australia PGA Tour ... Also becomes the most successful Indian on the Asian tour with 9 wins, which surpassed 8 wins each by Jyoti Randhawa and Arjun Atwal.


At $10M The World Golf Championships - Bridgestone Invitational 2018, Akron, Ohio, USA (PGA Tour 2018)

T6 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 65 70 69 68 -8 $241,375.00
T69 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 72 79 72 70 +13 $47,000.00

Anirban scored a superb 2 under final round which consisted of 4 birdies and 2 bogeys to finish inside top-10 in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational ... This was his fourth top-10 finish on 2018 PGA tour ... But Shubhankar struggled on this course and the second round 9 over pushed him to finish on the second last position in this strong field.

At €3.25M Women's British Open 2018, Lancashire, England

T22 Aditi Ashok (IND) 72 72 73 68 -3 $32,070

Aditi stored her best round for the last day ... She had a flawless four-under round, which consisted of 4 birdies on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 16th holes ... And this helped her to finish her first inside top-25 finish in the Majors.

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