Indian golfer Aditi Ashok is hoping to make up for a near-miss in Tokyo by successful an Olympic medal this week, after dashing to catch a flight following an occasion in the USA on Sunday.
Ashok solely arrived in Paris late on Monday night after enjoying an LPGA Tour occasion in Portland.
She mentioned she took a flight from Portland to London however didn’t arrive at her lodge till 11:00 pm native time after her connecting flight from Heathrow was delayed.
Ashok has not been given any favours by the organisers as she’s going to tee off within the third group in Wednesday’s first spherical at 09:22 am.
“After I holed out, my dad — nicely, my caddie, clearly my dad, went straight to the automobile to pack the golf bag,” Ashok mentioned on Tuesday.
“I submitted the cardboard and I used to be like, ‘Okay, simply make sure that I signal it’ as a result of I didn’t wish to neglect.
“Then I simply bought to the automobile, packed my golf bag, had a bathe and I feel we have been within the airport inside half-hour of holing my final putt… Catching the flight was the toughest half.”
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The 26-year-old insisted she wouldn’t be under-cooked regardless of her frantic journey, as she had practised at Olympic venue Le Golf Nationwide forward of final month’s Evian Championship.
This would be the fifth consecutive week Ashok has performed a match.
“I really feel like some stuff would have modified, and I have to determine that stuff out right now,” added the world quantity 63 of the Albatros course.
“I don’t assume I’m as under-prepared as possibly individuals would assume I’m.”
Ashok fell simply in need of the medal positions three years in the past in Tokyo.
She completed fourth, one shot behind bronze medallist Lydia Ko and two strokes adrift of champion Nelly Korda.
India has received three medals to date in Paris, all in capturing, and will likely be hoping Ashok can go not less than one higher because it makes an attempt to match its record-breaking tally of seven from Japan.
“These occasions I feel are a lot completely different than an everyday occasion,” mentioned Ashok.
“So many individuals again dwelling watch golf simply because it’s within the Olympics. So it’s like a unique demographic of people that get to look at me play which is cool.”
India will even be represented by 167th-ranked Diksha Dagar in Paris.
Shubhankar Sharma completed tied-Fortieth within the males’s competitors, two photographs forward of fellow Indian Gaganjeet Bhullar.