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Trading scalpel for golf irons: Indian-origin golfer Manav Shah’s stirring journey to US Open

Trading scalpel for golf irons: Indian-origin golfer Manav Shah’s stirring journey to US Open

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New Delhi, Born into a Gujarati family where medicine was considered the natural career path, Indian-origin golfer Manav Shah chose fairways over medical school and will, now, tee off at his maiden US Open after grinding on public courses and global qualifying circuits for years. Trading scalpel for golf irons: Indian-origin golfer Manav Shah’s stirring journey to US Open The California-born Shah, whose parents migrated from India in the 1980s, said reconnecting with his roots through the Asian Tour and the Indian Golf Premier League strengthened the self-belief, eventually carrying him into golf’s toughest major. “The players on the tour and all the guys I’ve met from India have been very welcoming to me. It kind of was a full circle moment for me and brought me closer to my roots, closer to my culture,” Shah told PTI during an interview. “I’ve always spoken Gujarati, but now, we all speak in Hindi. Just being more connected to my roots, I think it, honestly, gave me that sort of belief and confidence, that I could achieve …

Indian-origin golfer Aaron Rai becomes first Englishman to win PGA Championships

Indian-origin golfer Aaron Rai becomes first Englishman to win PGA Championships

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5 min readMay 18, 2026 11:44 PM IST On late Sunday night, 31-year-old Indian-origin golfer Aaron Rai became the first Englishman to win the PGA Championships in the stroke play era and became only the second-ever Indian-origin golfer after two-time Major winner Vijay Singh to achieve the feat. His overall score of 9-under-271 and the fateful lifting of the Wanamaker Trophy came under the watchful eyes of his father Amrik Singh and wife, Indian professional golfer Gaurika Bishnoi. “Asi sare jane Aaron layi cheer kar rahe si (We all were awake and cheering for Aaron). While his mother is in Kenya with Aaron’s sister, his father Amrik was cheering for him from the stands. My other nephew and niece were here in Wolverhampton and it was a surreal feeling to watch Aaron lift the trophy with his name inscribed on the trophy, which has names like Tiger Woods and other greats on it,” shared Kuldip Chana, elder maternal aunt of Aaron while speaking to The Indian Express from Wolverhampton. Aaron Rai with coach Darren Prosser. …

‘There’s a common thread to six hitting of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Rinku Singh and even Ajit Agarkar’ – golfer Aditya Kanitkar | Cricket News

‘There’s a common thread to six hitting of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Rinku Singh and even Ajit Agarkar’ – golfer Aditya Kanitkar | Cricket News

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4 min readApr 21, 2026 02:21 PM IST Aditya Kanitkar is a former golfer and currently a golf-coach in Pune. He is also the brother of former India cricketer Hrishikesh Kanitkar, and dabbles at Masters tennis besides golf and cricket, playing at Poona Club. Plenty of conversations within the family are about bat swings – at the intersection of golf and power-hitting cricket. It is not just India captain Harmanpreet Kaur that shadow-practices with a golf club before nets. Most bat swing coaching leans on golf to get the elevation and distance akin to driving on the greens. Aditya Kanitkar breaks down the swing from head to toe: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Heinrich Klaasen are a very good comparison, though both use golf stances in six-hitting. The biggest difference is Klaasen is tall and uses his long levers to create more speed in his bat flow. Vaibhav is shorter, but when he hits down to up, he creates a lot of rotations, that is, his body turns at a faster speed than most. What makes him …

‘Abhishek Sharma would have a great golf swing’: Golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu | Cricket News

‘Abhishek Sharma would have a great golf swing’: Golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu | Cricket News

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5 min readApr 21, 2026 07:30 AM IST By Ajeetesh Sandhu A winner on the Asian and Japan golf tour, Ajeetesh Sandhu explains how cricketers easily pivot to golf due to the inherent similarities. Arc of cricketers’ swing resembles golfers The first thing I think of when I watch Abhishek Sharma hold his finish after a six isn’t cricket. It’s golf. For a brief moment, the swing, the balance, even the rhythm feel like they belong on a fairway rather than a cricket ground.I wouldn’t go so far as to say the two are identical, but there are passages of play where the overlap is impossible to ignore. I noticed this even when I saw Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hitting Jasprit Bumrah for a six the other day in the Indian Premier League. The flow of the bat, the arc of the swing…all very close to a golf swing.Every time a batsman strikes the ball cleanly and lets the bat flow through the line, there’s a certain freewheeling quality through impact. That’s what catches my eye. The …

Fresh off Arnold Palmer invitational win, Indian-origin golfer Akshay Bhatia struggling to make the cut in India | Golf News

Fresh off Arnold Palmer invitational win, Indian-origin golfer Akshay Bhatia struggling to make the cut in India | Golf News

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4 min readGurugramMar 26, 2026 08:09 PM IST Indian-origin American golfer Akshay Bhatia arrived at the Indian Open for a long-awaited debut in the country this week. He leaves the opening day uncertain of even making the cut, with a reminder of how the Gary Player course at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram has gained its reputation for being particularly treacherous for those unfamiliar with these conditions. In peak form, having reached a career-high ranking of World No. 19 by winning the prestigious Arnold Palmer Invitational earlier this month, Bhatia may have hoped to reconnect with his roots; his parents had lived in Delhi before moving to North Carolina. But the feel-good charm of playing in India quickly vanished by the first hole. Starting from the tougher back nine of this course, Bhatia opened his tournament with an ominous double bogey, and was left eight over par after his first nine, with two bogeys, another double and one triple. Reining in his aggressive style and adapting to the conditions, he recovered to …

New Zealand’s multi-sport cricketers: Kyle Jamieson played basketball, Daryl Mitchell was a rugby fly-half, Mitchell Santner is a ‘full-time golfer’ | Cricket News

New Zealand’s multi-sport cricketers: Kyle Jamieson played basketball, Daryl Mitchell was a rugby fly-half, Mitchell Santner is a ‘full-time golfer’ | Cricket News

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On winter afternoons in Hamilton, New Zealand batsman Daryl Mitchell once studied space and tactics as a school rugby fly-half. In Auckland gyms, the 6-foot-8 Kyle Jamieson was learning timing and elevation, and chasing rebounds on a basketball court. And long before he was sweeping spinners in T20 leagues around the world, Tim Seifert was practising similar strokes — only with a hockey stick. These snapshots capture something distinctive about New Zealand cricketers who face India in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday: that the foundations of their success were laid elsewhere — on rugby fields, basketball courts, golf courses, archery ranges and hockey turfs — long before the players ever stepped on the 22 yards. Few players embody this cross-sport upbringing more clearly than Mitchell. The son of prominent rugby coach John Mitchell, he grew up immersed in rugby environments and played the sport seriously at school before committing fully to cricket. New Zealand players practice in the Narendra Modi Stadium ahead of the T20 World cup final vs India at Ahmedabad. (express …

Young golfer Shubham hopes to make homecoming count

Young golfer Shubham hopes to make homecoming count

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New Delhi: Around this time last year, Shubham Jaglan was still an amateur trying to build his golf career at the University of South Florida. Things have progressed at breakneck pace since then. Since turning professional last July, Jaglan played in the third-tier PGA Americas —pathway to qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour and the final stage of the PGA Tour Q-School —where he made the cut thrice in nine outings, finishing tied third at the BioSteel Championship. Having assessed his game there, the 20-year-old, who dreams of playing on the PGA Tour, returned to India last year to play in the domestic Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) and the Asian Tour. While “playing at the highest level” remains his ultimate goal, Jaglan’s PGA dream has taken a backseat for now. “I want to put my learnings from PGA Americas to use on the PGTI this season and also play on the Asian Tour. The level of the Asian Tour is definitely higher than what I’d get on PGA Americas, which is why I …

Juan Carlos Ferrero begins new chapter as golfer Angel Aroya’s mental coach

Juan Carlos Ferrero begins new chapter as golfer Angel Aroya’s mental coach

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The end of the 2025 tennis season was marked by a high-profile split between Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Alcaraz, one of the most successful player–coach partnerships in recent years. A week after the separation was confirmed, Ferrero had acknowledged that differences over a new contract between the two teams had played a role in bringing the association to an end. Just over a month later, Ferrero embarked on an unexpected new chapter – away from the tennis court. The former French Open champion joined Spanish golfer Angel Aroya’s team earlier this month, describing the move as a necessary “change of scenery” after his long and intense stint alongside Alcaraz. “After what happened with Carlos, ultimately it’s about a change of scenery, something that I think is necessary, especially for a while,” Ferrero told TenGolf, reflecting on the transition Ferrero explained that his entry into the world of golf came through conversations with Juan Ochoa, Aroya’s coach, who offered him the opportunity to explore the demands of elite golf and assess where his experience could …

Why golfer Rory McIlroy was forced to hit a shot with ball under banana peel

Why golfer Rory McIlroy was forced to hit a shot with ball under banana peel

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Rory McIlroy’s campaign to win his second Australian Open title suffered its banana peel moment… from an actual banana peel! The world No 2 from Ireland had to hit a shot in the third round with the ball taking cover under a banana peel, which was possibly thrown on the golf course by a fan. But what was even more strange about the incident was that McIlroy had to play the shot without removing the banana peel. Why? In McIlroy’s own words: “It’s a loose impediment and it was resting on the ball so if I moved the banana peel, the ball would have moved so I just didn’t even didn’t even try. I mean, I shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but, yeah, I wasn’t the best to start.” Translation: if the ball had moved while he tried to pick up the banana peel, McIlroy would incur a one-stroke penalty. “I feel like this is a week of firsts and in a lot of ways,” McIlroy said. How had McIlroy ended in …

Rory McIlroy’s psychologist reveals why golfer didn’t speak to Bryson DeChambeau at Masters

Rory McIlroy’s psychologist reveals why golfer didn’t speak to Bryson DeChambeau at Masters

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Rory McIlroy’s sports psychologist has addressed Bryson DeChambeau’s comments about the Northern Ireland golfer not speaking to him during the Masters at the Augusta National. After McIlroy won the Masters and completed a grand slam, DeChambeau said that he tried to speak to his compatriot but McIlroy in term offered no words. “No idea. Didn’t talk to me once all day,” DeChambeau said. When the LIV golfer was pressed further about why things played out that way, he implied that he tried to initiate conversation but got nothing back in return. “He wouldn’t talk to me.” Story continues below this ad McIlroy’s sports psychologist Bob Rotella cleared the air and said that there were a few things that the golfer was not going to do all tournament, and one of it was to not speak to other players. “That didn’t have anything to do with Bryson. That was just the game plan all week and we wanted to get lost in it. “We didn’t want to pay attention to what anyone else was scoring, or …