When I went to the first tee for the Pro-Am, my mind immediately went back to the first time I came for the Hero Honda Masters two years ago. As I played the Pro-Am with Pawan Kant Munjal on my team, he agreed to sponsor me.
I qualified for the European PGA Tour and now, for last two years, Hero Honda has supported me. Golf in India and my own game has come a long way, but I still feel things are incomplete as long as I don’t win a major title in India.
And coming in from a win in Lexus International which ended a three-year drought for me, I feel this is the best time for me. I just had a week off during which I attended a friend’s wedding. We danced away the whole night and that was really a great week. I had a trophy and my best friend was getting married. But now it’s back to work.
The Pro-Am today was more of a practice round and it was social golf but it gave me a good opportuniy to get the feel of the greens and the fairways.Since I didn’t play much golf last week, I practiced a little more afterthe round to prepare myself for tomorrow. The course looks in good shape, the are fairways are narrow, the rough is up and the greens are rolling well.
I think that it will be difficult to hole the putts this week, as there is a lot of hidden grain on the greens. Personally, the golf will be great if the wind picks up as there is a lot of wind swirling up there.