Golf: After Tiger-Charlie Woods duo, India’s own Jeev Milkha Singh and son Harjai set to compete together

While a young Jeev started playing golf at the age of nine years seeing his father play golf at the club, a young Harjai first dabbled his way in cricket and football before choosing golf. The ninth standard Strawberry Fields High School, Chandigarh, student had won the Milkha Junior Golf Challenge at the age of seven years in 2017 before he finished third in US Kids Golf World Championship in Malaysia in 2018.

Last year, Harjai won the title in the U-13 category in the US Kids Golf European Championship in Scotland and he had competed in the Jersey legends Cup at La Moye Club, Channel Islands, as an amateur where father Jeev Milkha Singh too competed. Harjai had finished fourth among amateur golfers.

“There will be no pressure from my father as he has always told me to enjoy the game. But as an amateur golfer playing among the professional golfers will have some pressure on me. I am looking towards this experience. I find the 15th hole the most challenging one as if you miss the left, you are out of bounds. The greens are not feeling very close. So one has to feel the putt. That will be the key for me this week,” Harjai Milkah Singh told The Indian Express.

On the PGTI circuit, father-son duos like Inderjeet Balotia-Udayjeet Balotia, Feroz Ali Mollah-Imran Ali Mollah and others have played in a tournament together. At the 7,202 yard-long course, Jeev has an advice for his son and other amatuer golfers this week.

“As a parent, my advice to Harjai has been to enjoy his game. That’s what my father used to tell me and it’s the same with me. Talking about the course, I find the par-5 seventh hole the toughest and Harjai too knows this. I have just told him to check his swing and to play some aggressive golf this week without any pressure. He will be playing in a different group. Hopefully, we both can make the cut and enjoy some conversations about the course after the day’s play,” says Jeev.

As for his plans, Jeev will be playing on the Champions Tour later this year apart from playing on the Legends Tour and in the Senior PGA Championships at Harbour Shores Golf Club, USA. “I have enjoyed playing on the Senior Tour as well as the Japan Tour for the last two years. Playing in the Senior PGA Championships later this year will be a special feeling and I am looking towards it,” said Jeev.