Chacarra story can encourage Indian golfers to chase larger targets

PGA Tour’s new champions was Australia’s Min Woo Lee, 25, on the Houston Open. The youthful brother of the twice LPGA main champion Minjee Lee, thought of a giant expertise, held off a quickly closing world No.1 Scottie Scheffler by one shot.

Whereas each winners validated their expertise, Chacarra’s victory was outstanding as he desperately wanted to safe the cardboard in a serious tour after two years on the LIV Tour led to disappointment together with his contract not renewed. It additionally confirmed a degree of daring and perception one wants to realize massive targets within the ultra-competitive world of professional golf.

Indian gamers discovered the going powerful on the Indian Open. Of the 30 within the area, 12 made the lower on a well-known but troublesome course that demanded an incredible degree of ball placing and a few luck and nice talent on arduous greens. India’s greatest was T17 – Veer Ahlawat, Gaganjeet Bhullar and Om Prakash Chouhan. India No.1 Shubhankar Sharma completed T43, ending with back-to-back birdies, together with a positive iron shot on to the seventeenth inexperienced, little comfort.

Chouhan, the 2023 Order of Advantage on the PGTI Tour shot 71 as one in all solely seven gamers who went sub-par on Sunday whereas Veer Ahlawat, tied second final yr and who earned the cardboard to play on DPWT by topping the 2024 PGTI cash record, couldn’t make a push on the ultimate day though it’s his greatest end on tour.

India’s look forward to a win on the European tour continues. Gaganjeet Bhullar’s Fiji Worldwide in August 2018 is the final success.

Earlier than the match, Shubhankar, twice winner on the European tour, stated profitable alone can’t be a yardstick in golf and that Indian gamers had been bettering and the outcomes will quickly present. “So, total the query is that how is Indian golf? It’s on the rise and it’s rising as a result of the scores the children are taking pictures lately and particularly the younger ones developing and the distances they’re hitting, it’s excellent to see.”

Ahlawat, 29, stated taking part in on the DP World Tour had been powerful, after his 75 on Sunday. “The one factor that modified was how robust the sphere was (in European occasions)… I realised I have to work on extra issues on my recreation to truly be up there (on the leaderboard) extra typically.”

“My first purpose is to avoid wasting my card for subsequent yr and the second is to have a number of prime 10s this yr and be up there extra typically.”