TIL Desk Sports/ Shubhankar Sharma, who has been the toast of Indian golf in recent times, continued his meteoric rise in the world of international golf by achieving his second European Tour and Asian Tour win within a span of just two months.
The 21-year-old, who had won the European Tour’s Joburg Open in the second week of December last year, also added the Maybank Championship title to his trophy cabinet on Sunday after smashing a sensational and error-free 10-under-62 in the final round at the Saujana Golf and Country Club here.
Sharma (70-69-66-62), who rose 18 places on the leaderboard in the fourth and final round to wrest the title, totalled an astonishing 21-under-267 for the week, thus enjoying a two-shot victory margin over Spaniard Jorge Campillo at the US$ 3 million event.
Sharma’s sublime effort on the final day in Kuala Lumpur helped him pick up a handsome pay cheque of US$ 500,000, the biggest of his fledgling career so far. He thus took the lead in both the European Tour Race to Dubai (748.074 Race to Dubai points) and the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
