Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok on Tuesday grew to become the primary Indian pair to complete in prime 4 of the Women’ European Tour, however the latter’s win within the Andalucia Open de Espana additionally gave her the career-best forty first spot in world rankings.
Diksha and Aditi received a complete of three LET titles this 12 months, with the previous’s title win coming at Czech Republic earlier this 12 months.
Whereas Aditi received the Andalucia Open de Espana together with one other title win earlier this 12 months, Diksha completed seventh within the occasion however was ranked third within the Race to Costa del Sol Rating, the Order of Benefit on LET.
By no means earlier than have two Indians completed within the Prime-4 of the LET’s Order of Benefit.
Aditi’s finest on the Order of Benefit was second in 2016, additionally her rookie 12 months when she performed 13 occasions and received twice.
In 2017, she was seventh regardless of enjoying solely seven occasions, as Aditi had began enjoying on the LPGA too.
This 12 months once more, she performed seven occasions on LET plus some like Evian, Girls’s Open and Scottish Open, which have been co-sanctioned with the LPGA.
Aside from two wins, Aditi additionally had two extra top-10 finishes on the LET.
On the LPGA Tour, Aditi had 5 top-10 finishes, together with a second-place end within the JM Eagles Championship. She remains to be trying to find her first win within the LPGA.
Her phenomenal displaying included India’s first-ever medal in girls’s golf on the Asian Video games, the place she was second after wanting a lock-in for the gold after three rounds.
The 12 months was sensational for Diksha too. In her profession, which began in 2019, Diksha has a few wins and 12 top-10 finishes.
Of them, a win and 9 different top-10s got here in 2023 alone.
She performed an unimaginable 27 occasions this season, a sworn statement to her health and the power to take the load.
Aditi completed forty first on the LPGA and co-incidentally ended the outstanding 2023 with a career-best forty first place.
Aditi, who has received two occasions, together with on the Andalucia Open de Espana, has additionally completed in top-5 and top-10 a number of occasions on both aspect of the Atlantic.
She ended the 12 months in fourth place on the LET and the LPGA in the US of America.
Diksha additionally moved to 162nd on world rankings – her finest was 156 earlier within the 12 months – and was third on the Race to Costa Del Sol.
Between the 2, they received 3 times – Aditi twice and Diksha as soon as.
If Aditi began 2023 with a win in Kenya, Diksha maintained it with a win within the Czech Republic in the midst of the 12 months in June earlier than Aditi closed it with one other win in Spain.
The 2 additionally collected 11 top-10s (9 by Diksha and two by Aditi) on the LET.
The LET’s Race to Costa del Sol title was determined on the remaining occasion in Spain, with Trichat Cheenglab battling alongside Celine Boutier, Diksha, Johanna Gustavsson, Alexandra Forsterling and Ana Pelaez Trivino for the No 1 spot on the finish of 2023.
Cheenglab, regardless of her Fortieth-place end within the season-ending occasion, grabbed the 2023 Race to Costa del Sol title and in addition Rookie of the Yr honours.
Cheenglab grew to become the sixth participant to win each titles in the identical season, following within the footsteps of Dame Laura Davies, Carlota Ciganda, Esther Henseleit, Atthaya Thitikul and Linn Grant.
Cheenglab clinched the title by accumulating 1,966.52 factors from 24 occasions and in the end ending 90.64 factors forward of Boutier, who was second, with Dagar an additional 50.77 factors behind in third place.
Cheenglab, 28, determined to attempt to play on the LET after watching Thitikul win each titles in 2021. She got here to Q-Faculty in December 2022 and secured her full LET card with fifth place on the remaining qualifier.
Cheenglab secured her first top-10 end of the season within the particular person occasion on the Group Collection and her kind actually kicked in over the summer season months.
The Thai star was the runner-up on the Czech Women Open earlier than ending tied-Fifth on the La Sella Open, and some weeks later, she captured her maiden LET title on the Large Inexperienced Egg Open.
Over the previous couple of months, Cheenglab, who rose from 728 to ninetieth within the rankings, continued her consistency with a tied-Sixth end in Hong Kong, a tied-4th end in Riyadh and second place on the Mallorca Women Open.