India could have some well-known names resembling Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma and Aditi Ashok in its seven-member golf contingent for the 2022 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, scheduled to happen from September 23 to October 8.
Avani Prashanth and Pranavi Urs topped the charts within the Indian Golf Union’s Asian Video games 2023 choice trials for ladies. Each of them joined Olympian Aditi Ashok within the Indian workforce for the continental meet. Ashok didn’t take part within the trials as she was handed a direct entry based mostly on her rating.
Tvesa Malik, who completed third with a rating of nine-under, was handed a direct entry final yr for the Asian Video games based mostly on her rankings however didn’t make the lower this time. Tokyo Olympian Diksha Dagar is one other identified identify that might be lacking from the Indian workforce for the Asian Video games, after ending fifth within the trials with a rating of three-under 213.
Within the males’s trials, Khalin Joshi was adopted by SSP Chawrasia on the leaderboard. Joshi and Chawrasia will be part of Anirban Lahiri and Shubhankar Sharma within the Indian males’s golf workforce.
Lahiri and Sharma didn’t compete within the trials and had been handed direct entries based mostly on their rankings. Lahiri was a part of the Indian golf workforce that gained silver on the 2006 Asian Video games in Doha.
India has gained six medals, three golds and three silvers throughout particular person and workforce occasions since golf made its debut on the 1982 Asian Video games. All medals have been gained by males.
Indian golf workforce for Asian Video games 2023
Males: Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Khalin Joshi, SSP ChawrasiaÂ
Ladies: Aditi Ashok, Pranavi Urs, Avani Prashanth