Anika shows she will be a strong contender for an Asian Games team spot
Anika Varma, now playing for Oregon University’s college team and who celebrated her 18th birthday on April 5th, shot 75-69-79 (7-over 223) to finish tied 15th at the Silverado Showdown, a part of the inter-collegiate circuit at Silverado Resort & Spa in Napa, California.
The three-day, stroke-play event featured 17 college teams (93 players). Northwestern University won the team event by nine strokes over Texas A&M while Oregon, which is ranked 5th in the country, finished tied for sixth.
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Anika had enjoyed a couple of really good amateur seasons in California to get recruited by Oregon and intends to play four years of NCAA college golf while earning her undergraduate degree.
Anika is among the girls who have been asked to attend the Asian Games trials at Kolkota from April 24-27th for selection of the three member Indian team for the Huagzhou games to be held in September.
Currently other Delhi youngsters following the same college scholarship route are Shubham Jaglan, who plays for University of South Florida, Raghav Chugh who plays for Rice University in Texas and Krishnav Chopra who plays at Long Beach State University in California. Among Indian girls, Sifat Sagoo has enjoyed success at Purdue University, outside Chicago. Former Dubai based Indian national Rayhan Thomas plays at highly sought after Oklahoma State which has produced a number of PGA Tour stars.
Most PGA Tour players have followed the college path including the likes of Tiger Woods who played at Stanford, Masters winner Jon Rahm who played at Arizona State and Scottie Sheffler who graduated from University of Texas with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance.
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Photo – Oregon University