India’s greatest efficiency on the Olympics got here from Aditi who completed fourth in the Tokyo Games 2020. File.
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Indian golfers Aditi Ashok (46) and Diksha Dagar (138) are set to participate in the Paris Olympics whereas Shubhankar Sharma (197) and Gaganjeet Bhullar (232) even have a robust likelihood of creating it to the Games.
While will probably be a 3rd look for Aditi on the Olympics which can also be probably the most for an Indian, Diksha shall be competing for the second time. For Sharma and Bhullar, it could be their maiden look on the Olympics.
India’s greatest efficiency on the Olympics got here from Aditi who completed fourth in the Tokyo Games 2020.
The Olympic entries are despatched by the Indian Golf Union.
Qualification for Olympics is decided by rankings, restricted to 60 males’s and as many ladies’s gamers via the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR).
The prime 15 gamers in the OWGR are eligible for the Olympics with a most restrict of 4 golfers allowed from a single nation.
The Olympic Golf Rankings (OGR) after the highest 15 gamers consists of up to two prime eligible gamers per nation, so long as it doesn’t have not less than two golfers in the highest 15.
Meanwhile, Sahith Theegala and Akshay Bhatia, the 2 Indian-Americans making waves on the PGA Tour, have each reached career-high rankings this week.
Theegala, who logged a second runner-up end in 2024 and Bhatia, who gained his second PGA Tour title and certified for the Masters, at the moment are ranked No 12 and No 33 respectively.
However, neither Theegala nor Bhatia have a risk of creating an Olympic look because the prime 15 in the world rankings have as many as eight Americans.
In 11 begins, Theegala has been a runner-up on the season-opener the Sentry and on the RBC Heritage and was fifth at WM Phoenix Open and tied-sixth on the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Bhatia, in his 12 begins, has gained as soon as on the Texas Open and been in prime 20 as many as six occasions. He additionally missed reduce 4 occasions.
The prime 4 Americans are Scottie Scheffler (1), Wyndham Clark (3), defending Olympic champion Xander Schauffele (5) and Patrick Cantlay (8). Two different Americans, Max Homa (9) and Brian Haran (10), are additionally forward of Theegala, who’s the seventh greatest American in the world rankings.
While solely 4 gamers will be entered for the Olympic Games, offered they in world’s prime 15, solely US has 4 or extra in the record.
All different international locations can ship a most of two gamers offered each are in prime 60 of the Olympic qualifiers.
Meanwhile, in the ladies’s part, Aditi, regardless of a modest 2024 thus far, stays on in prime 50.
Diksha, who has been stable type, has been in prime 10 thrice in 5 begins on the Ladies European Tour, and in addition been tied-26 or higher in her two begins on the Epson Tour.
Diksha has additionally touched 138 in the ladies’s world rankings, her greatest thus far.
The subsequent two Indian girls are Pranavi Urs, enjoying her rookie season on LET, at 403 and novice Avani Prashanth at 531.
Among Indian males, Sharma, the lone Indian in prime 200, has a greatest end of tied-seventh on the Singapore Classic and tied-16 at Dubai Desert Classic.
Bhullar’s greatest in 2024 has been tied-43 in Oman on Asian Tour, however he additionally gained as soon as at Chandigarh Open on the Indian Tour, for his second win in 4 months in India.
The subsequent greatest after Sharma and Bhullar are Veer Ahlawat at 380 and Karandeep Kochhar at 434.
