Arjun Atwal played a round of five-under 67 in the qualifiers, but failed to make it to the US Open golf tournament by just two strokes
Fiji's Vijay Singh ran down Sergio Garcia then outlasted Garcia and Jim Furyk in a three-way playoff to win the Wachovia title.
Indian ace Arjun Atwal failed to build on a good start on the front nine and slid to tied 69th place in the Wachovia Championship.
The Indian golfer fired a four-under 68 to take sole possession of the second-round lead at the $5.5 million New Orleans Classic.
Arjun Atwal annexed the Asian PGA Order of Merit title at the season-ending Volvo Masters of Asia golf tournament in Bangkok.
Being a close friend of Tiger Woods has helped India's Arjun Atwal in more ways than he can count out on the course.
The Indian golfer fired an even par round to ensure yet another cut this week at the Texas Open.
He ended the second round three strokes clear of South African Retief Goosen in the Malaysian Open.
The Indian golfer opened with with five birdies and seven bogeys to finish two-over 72 in the Canadian Open.
The Indian made his 13th cut of the season at the end of the second round of the Reno Tahoe Open.
The Indian golfer tied for 16th place at the end of the third day of the USD 5.6 million Bank of America Colonial Golf Championship.
Indian golfer Arjun Atwal sank a tense 13-foot putt for a birdie on the 18th hole to squeeze inside the cutline but the two big names of the event Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson missed the cut at the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, USA.
Atwal, 30, recieved the accolade, voted by fellow professionals on the tour, at a gala dinner on Saturday.
Arjun Atwal tied the USPGA Tour record of three eagles in a round at the Buick Invitational
A flawless back-nine -- studded with four birdies -- helped Arjun Atwal get over a front nine slump and the Indian turned in a three-under 69 in the penultimate round to rise to the tied 11th spot in the Nationwide Tour's Bank of America Open in Glenview.
The car crash in Florida that marred Arjun Atwal's season last year is finally a closed chapter for the Orlando-based golfer with the police clearing him of speed-racing charges that could have landed him in a legal mess.
The Indian golfer ended up turning in his worst card of the week, a four-over 74, to aggregate two-under 278 at the Panama Movistar Championship.
Arjun Atwal claimed his third top-10 finish of the season at the USD 3 million B.C. Open.
Arjun Atwal made a strong start, with a two-under 68, to be placed at tied 18th along with Tiger Woods after the opening round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at the Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio. At the top of the table is Adam Scott, who has with him Steve Williams, the caddie Woods sacked recently.
The Indian golfer ended with a final round six-over 76 and ended tied 52nd in the FedEx St Jude's Classic in Tennessee.
Arjun Atwal carded the USD 5 million Bellsouth Classic title's best round of eight-under 64 to gatecrash into a five-man play-off
Arjun Atwal followed up his opening-round 61 with a three-under 67 Friday to assume a share of the lead at the halfway point of the Wyndham Championship.
Leading the field after day 1 was Australian Rodney Pampling with a six-under-par 66, one stroke ahead of American Chris Riley.
Arjun Atwal's final day effort took his total to one-under 287 to take him to 59th place at the USD 3 million event.
The Indian golfer finished the two rounds before the cut at 11-over to crash out of the US PGA Championships.
Arjun Atwal stayed steady in trying conditions to return the day's best card of three-under 67 and move into contention for his second PGA title at the USD 6.5 million HP Byron Nelson Golf Championships in Irving Texas.
The Indian golfer rolled in a card of four-under 66 to move into tied 14th place at the FedEx St Jude's Classic golf tournament.
A couple of bogeys in the front-nine denied Arjun Atwal a top-10 finish and the Indian signed off tied 16th after carding a one-under 71 in the final round of the US $625,000 South Georgia Classic golf tournament.
Arjun Atwal landed an eagle on the par-5 15th to claw his way back inside the cut line at the USD 6m Wachovia Championships
When rain stopped play, the Indian ace was cruising along at two-under par after eight holes, which gave him a tournament tally of 17-under.
Tiger Woods will start this week's US Open with major question marks hovering over his likely form but Indian Arjun Atwal believes the American world number one is "very close" to his best. The two golfers are near neighbours in Windermere, Florida, where they regularly play practice rounds together and Atwal has been amazed by the rapid improvement shown by Woods in recent weeks.
The Indian ace produced a dismal seven-over-par 79 in the second round to bow out of the five-million dollar Houston Open.
"The enormity of the achievement still hasn't sunk in," said the 30-year-old Kolkata pro, who became the first Indian to qualify for the elite US PGA Tour on Monday.
Arjun Atwal's historic title triumph on the PGA Tour was the high point of an otherwise moderate year for Indian golf during which seasoned campaigner Jeev Milkha Singh's fortunes took a massive tumble due to injuries.
They finished 48th and 54th in the WGC-American Express Golf Championship, which was won by Tiger Woods.
He was undone by a poor front-nine as he carded a two-over 74 to slip to the tied 57th spot after the second round of the US PGA Tour Qualifying School Finals.
The Indian ace completed his third round in the Malaysian Open in four-under-par 67 for a two-shot lead over world No. 5 Retief Goosen.
Tiger Woods's regular practice partner Arjun Atwal showed form the American can only dream about of late when he fired a course record-equalling 61 for a first-round lead at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday.
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