Golf spurts in India

Golf has exsited in India for nearly 200 years, but until 1980s,  the game has not progressed from being a relic of the British Empire to an opportunity for Indians to compete on the world stage. But with the game becoming less socially divisive and more and more players winning events all over the world, the country is becoming as important to the future of golf as China.

In the past:
Peter Thomson - three-time Indian Open winner
Royal Calcutta Golf Club - India's first course (More golfing institutions in India)
The 1996 Dunhill Cup - India beats Scotland in St Andrew's
The 2008 EMAAR-EGF Indian Masters - the first European Tour event in India

At present:
Jeev Milkha Singh - India's finest player
Singh is not only India's greatest player, he is also the most travelled player in all of world golf; his success today (he is a three-time European Tour winner and now a member of the PGA Tour) is just reward for years of flying around the world, playing almost every tour on every continent. He is a true trailblazer for Indian golf - when he won the Shinhan Donghae Open in Korea in 1994 he became the first Indian winner of a main tour event outside India. He now has 19 wins worldwide and in 2007 became the first Indian to play at Augusta.

Daniel Chopra - the first Indian to win on the PGA Tour
Although born in Stockholm, Chopra returned to India at the age of seven and was brought on the sub-continent by his grandparents. A winner of the Doug Sanders World Junior Championship in 1991, he was an itinerant golfer for the next ten years, much like Jeev Milkha Singh, until he found consistency and eventually success on the PGA Tour.

Arjun Atwal - the first Indian to win on the European Tour
When he won the 2002 Singapore Masters he became the very first Indian to win on the European Tour and he added another two titles over the next six years. In that period he also took himself to America and very nearly won the BellSouth Classic in 2005, but ultimately failed in a five-man play-off. He won the 2008 Chattanooga Classic on the Nationwide Tour and continues to play on that tour.

Smriti Mehra - India's best lady golfer
A winner on the Futures Tour in America, the 38-year-old Mehra has struggled in recent years on the LPGA and LET Tours, but she was good enough to challenge for the 1998 British Open, lying in third place going into the final round before finishing sixth behind the eventual winner Sherri Steinhauer. discount golf clubs for lady: Callaway Lady X-22 Irons 3-9PS....

Future:
Gaganjeet Bhullar - the new star?

Shiv Kapur - European Tour regular?

PowerPlay - the Twenty20 of golf?

Callaway FT i-Brid Irons

TaylorMade R9 460 Driver

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