This week’s PGTI Players Championship will also see golfers playing at PGC and CGC on consecutive days and Khan finds the challenge as an interesting one apart from playing in the new ‘normal’ with masks and social distancing measures.
While all the golfers and their respective caddies apart from PGTI officials submitted negative PCR reports for Covid-19 on Monday, it set the ball in motion for the return of professional golf in India.
Lahiri was 5-under through the first 10 holes but finished the last seven holes in two-over at the Port Royal.
SSP Chawrasia returned to action in style after recovering from coronavirus infection as he carded three-under 69 in the first round of the inaugural Scottish Championship
The 105th edition of the country’s oldest and most prestigious tournament, scheduled to take place at Melbourne’s Kingston Heath Golf Club, had already been postponed from its usual slot in November.
Professional golf will resume in India from next month with Chandigarh and Panchkula hosting the first three out of five tournaments to be held in the country till the end of this year.
Tiger Woods was unable to sustain the momentum of three straight birdies to finish with a 3over 73 in the opening round of the US Open at Winged Foot.
Tvesa and Diksha will stay on in Switzerland for next week's VP Bank Ladies Open, a 200,000 full Euro field event on the Ladies European Tour.
Indian duo of Tvesa Malik and Diksha Dagar carded 72 and 73 respectively in the second round to comfortably make the cut at the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open.
Debutant Tvesa Malik missed the cut by three shots after remaining in the hunt for most part of the day as she bowed of AIG Women's British Open along with compatriots Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar under tough conditions.
Three Indian golfers will be competing for the first time at a single Major as Tvesa Malik on Saturday joined Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar for the upcoming AIG Women's Open.
Shubhankar Sharma made a strong start but lost momentum before pulling things back for an erratic even-par 71 in the first round of the inaugural Celtic Classic golf tournament here.
In a first for Indian women's golf, three leading players of the country -- Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar and Tvesa Malik -- will tee up at an LPGA event together, the Ladies Scottish Open, starting Thursday.
Tiger Woods is looking ahead at a compressed tour schedule that will test his balky back in a way it hasn't been challenged in a long time.
Collin Morikawa has won the PGA Championship with one of the greatest shots hardly anyone witnessed at a major.
A four-time winner on the European Tour, including back-to-back Indian Open triumphs in 2016 and 2017, Chawrasia had started training at the Royal Calcutta Golf Course and was slated to fly to England this week.
The 24-year-old, who shot 73 in the first round, seemed to have put himself way off the cut line with three bogeys on the trot around the turn as he dropped shots on ninth, 10th and 11th holes at which point he was four-over for the tournament.
Shubhankar Sharma who has two wins on the European Tour, had a birdie followed by an eagle on the second and third holes.
Shubhankar Sharma, accompanied by long-time mentor Gurbaaz Mann, has travelled to the United Kingdom for the five-week swing of European Tour.
Tiger Woods is one victory shy of a PGA Tour record 83 wins and last competed in February, before being sidelined with back issues.
The Hero Indian Open was established by the IGU in 1964 and is one of the oldest running international sports events in the country. This year's event has been cancelled because of the worsening Covid-19 situation.
Players return to a new set of rules, starting with mandatory tests for the coronavirus when they first arrive and having their temperatures taken before they can get to the parking lot.
The LPGA Tour cited ongoing travel and border restrictions for not holding the tournament on August 6-9. It will return to the schedule next year in Evian-les-Bains.
Rashid Khan is the highest ranked Indian man in the world, while Aditi, who featured in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Tiger Woods, who grew up in Southern California, said he learned from the Los Angeles riots in 1992 that “education is the best path forward.”






