Tiger Woods plumbed new depths when he missed the cut in a third successive major for the first time in his career at the storm-delayed PGA Championship on Saturday.
Asian Tour star Anirban Lahiri wrote a small slice of Indian sporting history with an eye-catching equal fifth place finish at the PGA Championship on Sunday and reinforced his growing reputation in world golf.
Tiger Woods will return to the PGA Tour at next week's WGC-Match Play Championship in Arizona after being sidelined by injury since his U.S. Open victory last year.
Jeev Milkha Singh has set his sights on becoming the first Indian to win a US PGA Tour event after ending his most successful campaign as the Asian Tour's number one player and with four global victories to his name. The 37-year-old secured his second order of merit title on the back of a thrilling Singapore Open triumph in November and the world number 35 is targeting more victories as well as a place in the International Team for the Presidents Cup.
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The ace Indian golfer began his quest to become the first Indian pro to qualify for the top-grade US PGA Tour shooting a three-under 69, which tied him for the 19th place after the first round.\n\n
Suzy Whaley qualified for the tournament by winning the PGA Connecticut Sectional in September, the first woman to do so.
Anirban Lahiri moved into position to record a first PGA Tour victory when the Indian fired an exquisite third round seven-under 65 at the TPC Kuala Lumpur course to storm four shots clear of the field at the CIMB Classic on Saturday. Lahiri's nine birdies offset an ugly double-bogey six on the 12th as the Pune-born 29-year-old moved to 19-under for the tournament, well ahead of overnight leader and defending champion Justin Thomas (71) and Scotland's Russell Knox (68). "I just have to try and do the same thing on the last round," Lahiri told reporters. "Everybody is making birdies all the way around so I don't think there's any other way to do it."
Tiger Woods produced the good, the bad and the ugly in his first PGA Tour start in 17 months on Thursday while Olympic champion Justin Rose set the early pace in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open.
Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday. Atwal joined Japanese trio Isao Aoki, Shigeki Maruyama and Ryuji Imada and South Koreans K.J. Choi and Y.E. Yang in an elite but growing club of champions from world's most populous continent.
Indian golfer SSP Chowrasia showed glimpse of vintage form and fired a blazing four-under 67 to lie tied third after the opening round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
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India's Shubhankar Sharma produced the best-ever result by an Indian at golf's oldest Major, the Open Championships, as he finished tied-eighth in Hoylake on Sunday.
Tiger Woods withstood a late bogey, double-bogey, par, bogey wobble in strengthening winds to end a week of dominant golf by clinching his 75th PGA Tour title by four shots at the Farmers Insurance Open on Monday.
The Indian ace has a two-day tally of one-under 139, the very score at which the cut was applied, in the Sony Open in Hawai.
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The ace Indian golfer shot his second successive three-under 69 to tie for for the ninth place with a 36-hole tally of six-under 138.\n\n\n\n
Arjun Atwal suffered a dramatic fall over the last three holes, dropping four shots in that span to plummet to tied 109th after the fourth round of Final Stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying School, in La Quinta, California.
Tiger Woods carved out another slice of history with a two-shot victory at the Buick Invitational on Sunday.
The American claimed the honour for the fifth straight season.
Winning a major is its own reward, but rivalries, rankings and next year's Rio Olympics were also on the mind of contenders at the Women's PGA Championship.
Aditi Ashok played a steady round of even par 72 to be tied-28th after the second round of the Amundi Evian Championship.
Tiger Woods is set to tee off at the Masters with Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele.
Anirban Lahiri landed a crucial eagle on the back nine to make a cut for the weekend at the $7.3 million AT&T Byron Nelson on the PGA Tour.
Woods delivered a speech about his career and those who helped him along the way after his daughter Sam introduced him for induction.
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Tiger Woods made an apology and appeared to make the cut at the Genesis Invitational on Friday, as a prank gone wrong overshadowed his return to action.
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Former Women's PGA Championship winner Hannah Green became the first woman to win a mixed-gender professional golf tournament on Sunday with a four-stroke victory at the TPS Murray River event in Australia.
PSG forward Messi, 35, was next on the list after bringing home a combined $130 million while club team mate and France captain Mbappe -- the youngest on the list at 24 -- earned $120 million to sit third.
"Last year I played -- I was really almost a cripple, and I was popcorning it. This year I felt pretty good. So I got it within 20 yards of them a few times, which is good."
Justin Thomas capped a breathtaking comeback by beating Will Zalatoris in a three-hole playoff to win the PGA Championship on Sunday after Chile's Mito Pereira blew a one-shot lead on the final hole.
Tiger Woods will make a "game-time decision" on competing at next week's Masters, the five-times champion said on Sunday.
India's golfer Anirban Lahiri's week kept getting better even before he reached the tee in the opening round of PGA Championship as he got to practice alongside the legendary Tiger Woods in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday.
Shubhankar Sharma is on track to post the best ever finish by an Indian at the British Open after competing his third round in a tie for ninth place at drizzly Royal Liverpool on Saturday.
It was India's fourth individual medal in golf with Lakshman Singh and Shiv Kapur winning the gold in the 1982 and 2002 editions and Rajiv Mohta claiming a silver in New Delhi.
Erica and Woods have been in an ongoing legal battle for several months. In October 2022, she filed a lawsuit against a trust set up for his residence. Erica said that she had a verbal agreement to live at the estate for five years but she was kicked and locked out of the home.
Tiger Woods fed off an "electric" atmosphere to card his lowest score in two years on the PGA Tour, a six-under 64 that put him within two shots of the early first round lead at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday.
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