Yash Majmudar is a graduate of University of San Diego in California
Yash wins Singapore Amateur
Singapore born Yash Majmudar recovered from a final hole double bogey to win a three-way sudden-death playoff at the 74th Singapore Open Amateur Championship, played at Tanah Merah Country Club, from July 18-22. Majmudar shot 72-72-73-74 over his four rounds.
Majumdar grew up in Singapore and played college golf at the University of San Diego, graduating in 2020.
In Jan 2021, he moved to Dubai, where he currently lives. India Golf Weekly spoke to him over the phone after his victory. “I am right now in Singapore for a few weeks to spend time with my parents, Majmudar said. My biggest wins to date have been the San Diego Junior Masters in 2012 , the Singapore National Amateur Championship in 2013 , the Sizzler Amateur in Arizona in 2017 and now the Singapore Open Amateur Championship. I have struggled with my game the last few years and didn’t have a good college career. I went to PGTI Q school earlier in the year but didn’t make it through.”
From the official Indian contingent in Singapore, All India Amateur Champion, Aryan Roopa Anand of Bangalore, finished sixth.
Other Indians in the field included –
Arjun Singh Bhatia – T-10th –
Akshay Neranjen -17th
Aryaman Mohan – T-18th
Jayaditya Saluja – 31st
Dhruv Suri – T-40th
Mishra fourth in Indonesia
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16 year old Shat Mishra, ranked No.1 in the under-18 Boys category on the IGU’s National Rankings, shot 75-74-73 (6-over 222) to finish fourth at the International Junior Championship in Indonesia.
A total of 82 junior golfers participated from eight countries (Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, India, America, South Korea and Indonesia as hosts) in categories from A to E.
Mishra, has won six tournaments this year in India including the National Ranking events –
NCR Cup at Delhi GC, Southern India Junior Boys & IGU Northern India Juniors.
Avani misses at European Ladies, heads to Scotland
Avani Prashanth during Round 2 of the German Masters
Bangalore teen Avani Prashanth, who is the third-highest ranked 15-year-old girl in the Amateur World Rankings and supported by Mumbai based AllCargo Logistics, shot 75-75-69 (3-over 219) to miss the cut by two-strokes at the European Ladies’ Amateur Championship, in Paris last week.
A total of 144 women golfers competed in the four-round stroke play event. The cut fell on the third day, with top 60 and ties progressing to the final round. The tournament was won by 16-year old Belgian Savannah de Bock who beat 20-year old Charlotte Heath in a playoff after the pair finished at 19 under par.
Zara Anand at the Girls U16 Amateur
Earlier this month Prashanth registered a top-5 finish in the girls category at the R&A’s Junior Open in Scotland. She will now be joined by Zara Anand, the 13-year-old scratch golfer and a student of Shiv Nadar School in Noida, for the upcoming R&A Girls Amateur scheduled for August 8-14 at Carnoustie, Scotland.
First played in 1919, the R&A’s Girls Amateur Championship is a highly coveted junior title.
Past winners include major champions and Solheim Cup players such as Anna Nordqvist, Suzann Pettersen, Azahara Munoz and Georgia Hall. More recently, Slovenia’s Pia Babnik triumphed in 2019 and has already gone on to win on the Ladies’ European Tour.
The winner gains exemptions into the Women’s Amateur Championship, the US Girls’ Junior Championship, Final Qualifying for the AIG Women’s Open and the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
Credits:-
Photo – Singapore Golf Association / Shat Mishra/ Avani Prashanth