What Up People!?!
Please click on the title of this blog and see an incredible video of SHIV CHOWRASIA winning THE INDIAN MASTERS.
This is big stuff especially since this is the first EUROPEAN TOUR EVENT to come to INDIA. GOLF is spreading and people are very excited about what is to come.
Congrats to SHIV!!
How fantastic for golf and THE EUROPEAN TOUR.
Check out the article below.
SHIV WINS INDIAN OPEN
Associated Press
Published: February 10, 2008
NEW DELHI: Unheralded Indian golfer Shiv Chowrasia shot a 5-under-67 in the final round Sunday to clinch the Indian Masters title at the Delhi Golf Club.
Chowrasia, 29, had a bogey-free final round to win his maiden European Tour title with a four-round aggregate of nine-under par 279, two strokes ahead of Ireland's Damien McGrane who finished on seven-under par 281.
Chowrasia surged into the lead by firing three birdies over the first four holes. Not allowing his nerves to play up, the former caddie stayed ahead of the field thereafter.
"This is the biggest achievement of my life, it's beyond my expectations," said Chowrasia, the son of a greenskeeper at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club.
"I can't describe my emotions as it hasn't quite sunk in yet," Chowrasia said. "Playing the last few holes, I realized the title was within my grasp.
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"Playing safe and keeping my calm was important at that stage, so I kept my cool," he said.
Chowrasia said he had a good feel about his game before the tournament, "but had no idea I will come up with this title-winning performance."
The US$2.5 million (€1.72 million) Indian Masters was jointly sanctioned by the Asian Tour on which Chowrasia plays regularly, but without previously winning a title.
Marking the biggest achievement of his career, Chowrasia emulated fellow Indians Arjun Atwal and Jeev Milkha Singh, who have previously won titles on the European Tour.
McGrane's challenge suffered a jolt when he bogeyed the seventh hole. His final round card featured three bogies and five birdies for a two-under par 70 to finish two shots ahead of Spain's Jose Manuel Lara, who finished with five-under par 283 after a par-72 round Sunday.
Overnight leader Raphael Jacquelin of France had a two-over par 74 to leave him on 284, in tied fourth position with local golfer Digvijay Singh.
World No. 4 and two-time U.S. Open champion Ernie Els shot one-under par 71 in the final round to figure in a five-way tie for the sixth spot along with Thomas Bjorn, Gaurav Ghei Maarten Lafeber and Ross McGowan.
Els was unable to recover from a disappointing opening round, which featured a quadruple-bogey 9.
INDIAN MASTERS SCORES
NEW DELHI (AP) - Scores after Sunday's fourth and final round of the $2.5 million or €1.71 million Indian Masters, a joint tournament of the European and Asian Tours at the par-72, 7,014-yard Delhi Golf Club:
Shiv Chowrasia, India 70-71-71-67-279
Damien McGrane, Ireland 67-69-75-70-281
Jose Manuel Lara, Spain 68-72-71-72-283
Raphael Jacquelin, France 69-69-72-74-284
Digvijay Singh, India 70-70-74-70-284
Thomas Bjorn, Denmark 68-72-74-71-285
Ernie Els, South Africa 75-70-69-71-285
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