Big news from
@NiallOfficial
and his management company
@modestgolf
- the ISPS HANDA World Inv (July 28-Aug 1) will be a tri-sanctioned event between
@EuropeanTour
,
@LPGA
and
@LETgolf
. Field will be 288 - 144 men and 144 women. Purse is $2.35m split evenly.
India’s
@aditigolf
finished second to world No1 Lydia Ko in the $5 million Saudi Women’s International. One heck of a show by Aditi, and one screamer of a month where she finished winner, 3rd and 2nd.
This is funny.
"Why won't you play golf?"
@KP24
asked
@imVkohli
.
"I played in 2008. I'd clear my legs and hit it over cover and
@ABdeVilliers17
would tell me to go and fetch the ball myself! That's when I said I am not playing this game."
#ADifferentBallGame
This picture is the reason why
@SRTheegala
’s dad, Murali, was greenside at Pebble Beach celebrating after
@allisen_sc
’s
@uswomensopen
win yesterday!
That’s Sahith and Allisen aged 6 winning the Junior World. Them, and their families, have been great friends since then.
@LPGA
Just the news I was waiting for!
@SRTheegala
, who was the first alternate for the 150th
@TheOpen
, gets into the main field after Daniel Berger withdraws.
It’s incredible how down to earth Twitterless Victor is. Just saw him at Nassau airport. The girl behind hm asked what he did.
Hovland: ‘I live in Oklahoma and play a bit of golf’.
Come on! You are actually the world No9!!!
#HeroWorldChallenge
People may say nobody cares about
@LIVGolfInv
, but this is the car park 2 hours before tee off! Rich Harvest Farm is teeming with fans. Incredible response from Chicago.
Sad news. Argentina's Eduardo 'El Gato' Romero has lost his fight against cancer.
Not sure how many from the present generation will know him, but he is an absolute legend and was deeply loved by his peers.
His short game was fire! Must have been taught by God himself.
#RIP
To all those who are critical of Anthony Kim’s comeback round 76 after 12 years - Will Zalatoris shot 81 after 36 weeks of absence. Do we start questioning his talent and efforts?
No.
Let’s give Kim some time. Let’s enjoy this fascinating journey.
@livgolf_league
Because 'silver lining' is not the best phrase to use in this circumstance, let's say the consolation for
@aditigolf
from
#Olympics
is that her 4th place finish fetched her 11.1 Rolex Ranking points.
She is now world No154 - a jump of 46 places. It's her 2nd best points haul.
The
@RandA
has just announced that
@NiallOfficial
and his golf management company
@modestgolf
will help develop grassroots programs to get more young people into the game.
Good time to post Niall’s video which I took three years ago at the
@OMEGAGolfDubai
Desert Classic.
A new record has been set on the
@EuropeanTour
! Sebastian Soderberg of Sweden has gone around the Majlis course in the final round of
@OMEGAGolfDubai
Desert Classic in 1 hour 35 mins!!
@Thomas_Pieters
did it before in 1:59.
1 birdie and 4 bogeys in his 75!
For the past four days, I have tried hard to find one
@LIVGolfInv
player who looked like he wasn’t giving his 100% to win the tournament (as many fans on Twitter alleged).
I really haven’t found anyone in the field lacking intent and commitment.
#LIVGolfBoston
This is absolutely massive for Indian golf and for 15-year-old Avani Prashanth! Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley has granted a special invite to the WAGR No128 and the reigning All-India Ladies champion to participate in the prestigious
@anwagolf
.
So happy to see
@priyankachopra
taking her golf so seriously. This is her at a driving range in Berlin during break while shooting
#Matrix4
along with Keanu Reeves.
If any golfer has a big smile on his face following the bank-breaking announcements by the
@PGATOUR
, they ought to thank Greg Norman and
@LIVGolfInv
as well.
25 years of covering Indian golf and I never thought I’d see this. There is actually an Indian leading a WGC tournament at the halfway stage! And you know what? I firmly believe he can stay ahead of others for another 36 holes. Go
@shubhankargolf
The frustration is very apparent on
@anirbangolf
’s face after the narrowest of loss in the biggest golf tournament in the world.
It will hurt Baan, but I am sure the whole nation is proud of you. You are a Hero.
@THEPLAYERSChamp
@PGATOUR
I watched 'Chhapaak' a couple of days ago, and still getting goosebumps thinking about it. It's a movie we NEED to watch as a nation.
@meghnagulzar
...you are a superstar! And
@deepikapadukone
deserves all the accolades for her brilliant portrayal of Malti.
The final round of
@OlympicGolf
featured the current world No1 and a former No1 - two of
@LPGA
's biggest superstars.
But as I write in
@GlobalGolfPost
, it was the third person in the group - world No200
@aditigolf
of India - who really moved the needle.
This is one moment that says a lot about
@TigerWoods
- minutes after winning
@TheMasters
, Woods personally thanked Mr Pawan Munjal of
@HeroMotoCorp
for supporting him through the tough years of his career.
#ClassAct
Inside top-50!!
@aditigolf
becomes the first Indian golfer ever to breach the top-50 mark in Rolex Ranking. Her T5th place finish in
@LPGAfounders
takes her to No49 in the world!
The year’s getting better and better.
@Radisson
@HyundaiIndia
To all those who have been critical of my writing on Indian and Asian golfers on LIV Tour, I hope this answers the question about why I do what I do…
This is part of my newsletter today with
@htTweets
…
BRILLIANT news for Indian golf fans -
@anirbangolf
has received an invitation to play in the 105th
@PGAChampionship
to be held next month in Oak Hills CC.
Kudos to
@PGA
for rising above all the politics and doing the right thing.
Story coming soon on
@HTTweets
.
'LAUGHABLE'.
@JonRahmpga
take on the new
@OWGRltd
system.
"I'm going to be as blunt as I can. I think the OWGR right now is laughable. The fact that RSM doesn't have any top-20 in the world and has more points than
@DPWTC
, where we have seven of the top 20, is laughable."
Con..
History being made for India.
In 43 years of Queen Sirikit Cup, India's best individual result was a T3 in 2011 at home.
It's an extremely difficult tournament, dominated by powerhouses Korea, Japan, Thailand & Australia.
Now Avani Prashanth is about to change all that!
@ESPNcricinfo
@SDhawan25
There are still some blue space left on that jersey to accommodate Byju’s in a bigger font!
What happened to subtlety and class?
Woah!! Mickelson loses 15 pounds in 10 days following a 6-day fast! This is enormous show of intent and his desire to win. And he is less than a year away from qualifying to play on the Champions Tour.
Let’s get real for a minute. I haven’t been my best and I’m doing all I can to get it right. I’ll have more Phireside chats soon as well as a fun new series too. Until then, HIT 💣’s
I have been asked if I can get the whole
@aditigolf
thread from yesterday in one page. So here it does...
Now on
@Medium
: 'Golfers Are Not Divas, But They do Need to be Handled Differently'
I am so proud of
@aditigolf
and what she has done. I am also disappointed she finished 4th.
And then, I am thinking, if this was a major on
@LPGA
, I'd be over the moon with a top-5 finish!
#Olympics
really skews expectations. But the fact remains,
#AditiAshok
is a superstar.
Funny moment at the start of their second round today in the
@SaudiIntlGolf
-
@IanJamesPoulter
was supposed to tee off first, but Victor Hovland just strode up, plonked his tee and started taking his practice swing.
It was only when the announcer...
Five years ago, this happened. I pestered
@sachin_rt
during this meeting that he should start playing golf regularly. It has to be my peskiness that we get to see the legend more and more on the golf course these days!!
#BREAKING
-
@aditigolf
records the best finish of her career on
@LPGA
- and also the best for Indian golf - as she finishes T2nd in the JM Eagle LA Championship.
Probably, the best morale boost for Indian golf team at
@Olympics
.... in terms of pro golf, the lowest round ever at Kasumigaseki Country Club, host venue of
@OlympicGolf
, is by an Indian -
@JeevMilkhaSingh
, who shot a 65 in the first round of 2006 Japan Open there.
Well played
@arjunbhatigolf
. 18-under is excellent golf and even though you may not win this one, I am sure this will inspire and motivate you no end. All the best!
And well done to
@imVkohli
and his men for being such excellent curators of talent.
HISTORY MADE FOR INDIAN GOLF!
Avani Prashanth wins individual gold at the 43rd Quees Sirikit Cup with an all-time best winning margin of 11 shots.
Team India finish 2nd at -8.
#NeverHappenedBefore
India's
@shubhankargolf
finishes T8th in
@TheOpen
- the best-ever finish by our country at the oldest sporting event in the world. He betters the T27 by Jyoti Randhawa in the 2004 edition.
It fell short of
@anirbangolf
's T5 - the best Indian result in a major (2015 PGA C'ship)
LIV Golf abandoned its pursuit for Official World Golf Rankings last week.
I think it is time all smaller golf Tours now disassociate themselves from the OWGR, because it isn’t serving any purpose for them.
My newsletter with
@HTSportsNews
…
India’s
@aditigolf
is putting together a masterclass at the Saudi Women’s International. She is 7-under par through 9 holes today and leads a quality field by four shots. That includes about 10,000 miles of putt made for birdie already and an eagle from the bunker!
Remarkably, it's a seventh top-10 for
@McIlroyRory
in 10 starts in 2019. This one looked almost impossible given where he was after 27 holes on Friday. What a season he is having!
AMAZING news for Indian golf fans!! The three lions of our sport, the guys who put Indian golf on the world map -
@Arjunatwal
,
@JeevMilkhaSingh
and Jyoti Randhawa - will be part of the Senior Open this week in Royal Porthcawl.
Randhawa finished 3rd in his Final Qualifying.
So proud of my daughter! Winner of the Oxford University Press Short Story Writing Competition at Emirates Literature Festival for a second straight year!!
@EmiratesLitFest
Have to say this...
@livgolf_league
's Hong Kong tournament was an outstanding event inside and outside the ropes.
Shows the appetite for golf globally. The fans were just brilliant and LIV is continuously upgrading the product for the fans. Hong Kong GC is an exceptional venue.
If Mr Milkha Singh and
@JeevMilkhaSingh
are heroes, meet the Superhero of the family.
Jeev’s sister Mona (c) is at the frontline of New York’s battle against COVID-19. As Jeev said, she has been keeping insane hours for almost a month now.
@FarOutAkhtar
DISCLAIMER - This is a
#ProudDad
tweet!
Absolutely chuffed as my daughter secured 9 As and 2 A stars in her GCSE results!!
That’s like a golfer shooting a 54 with birdie on each hole!! Just can’t find any fault in the performance!!
With reports that AT&T is dropping Byron Nelson, Porsche is dropping European Open and RBC is getting out of Canadian Open, and Honda already out, this is the scenario I feared. Coexistence and healthy rivalry would have prevented all this from happening.
Someone clearly did not like his iron play during the final round of the
@SaudiIntlGolf
. A broken 5-iron and three mid-irons dumped in the garbage bin near the players lounge.
@EuropeanTour
#frustration
I asked
@b_dechambeau
what
@anirbangolf
brought to the table for Team Crushers.
The speed with which he answered was definitely faster than his swing speed!!
Indian ace
@JeevMilkhaSingh
has added his name in a list that includes stars like
@Cristiano
,
@DjokerNole
and
@iamsrk
as he becomes the first professional golfer in the world to have received the 10-year Dubai Golden Visa.
I love this about
@anirbangolf
. On Friday, he drove 120kms to Abu Dhabi to be with the Indian girls during the third round of Espírito Santo Trophy. He spent the day with them and walked the course.
Last year, did the same with
@shubhankargolf
during the DP World Tour C’Ship.
In all this brouhaha about the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf merging, I hope the promises made to
@asiantourgolf
will be kept and that it also means a way back for players from our region into the big Tours.
This question is everything that is wrong with the media today. Cam Smith was asked a pointed question if it was imp for
@livgolf_league
players to do well, and he gave an honest answer.
Now, look at how this person has framed the question to
@McIlroyRory
? Incredibly biased.
Massive honour for rules official Shalini Malik! She has become the first woman from India to be accepted as
@RandA
member.
Shalini is well known for her refereeing. Apart from
@LETgolf
events, she has been a referee at one
@TheOpen
and three
@AIGWomensOpen
.
@wgaofindia
This picture on the 18th tee during Friday's blustery round in
@ADGolfChamps
is proof that
@shubhankargolf
is in a great space. He had just made a bogey on 17th, but as soon as he saw me clicking, he gave this pose. Then asked: "Sir, Shahrukh jaisa dikh raha hoon na?"
Congratulations JB Holmes on winning
@genesisopen
! (I started composing this tweet yesterday and tried to sync my pace of typing with JB’s pace of play. It is finally ready now!!)
So very proud of this young man! Turned 23 yesterday and played his best round in a major at
@TheOpen
. If not for the two lost balls on Saturday, this could have been a top-20 outing for
@shubhankargolf
. Looking forward to many years of continued success.
So, so proud of my daughter Anyka. Winner of
@EmiratesLitFest
's
@OxUniPress
Story Writing Competition for a third year in a row! Second the last two years, it's top of the podium this year.
@gems_wis
Chip off the old block!!
Harjai Milkha Singh, son of
@JeevMilkhaSingh
, makes three birdies in the last five holes for a 2-under 70 that gives him sole lead in Boys 13 Category of the
@uskidsgolf
European Championship.
24 years after he last donned India colours in cricket, 59 year old
@therealkapildev
will be part of the Indian golf team at the 2018 Asia Pacific Seniors in Miyazaki, Japan.
#BreakingNews
: Say hello to the new Asia No1!!! India's
@shubhankargolf
confirmed as the 2018
@asiantourgolf
Order of Merit champion after Justin Harding and Scott Vincent, two men who could have caught him by winning the SA Open, miss the cut.
I did manage to catch up with
@KP24
at
@theOpen
, but could not speak to him. Was so good to see him walking with young South African Aldrich Potgieter, the 2nd youngest winner in 127 years of Amateur Championship. Get a feeling the young man picked up invaluable lessons from KP.