TIL Desk Sports/ India’s rising golf star Shubhankar Sharma is excited at the prospect of playing with his ‘idol’ Tiger Woods at the next year’s Open Championship.
The 21-year-old Gurgaon lad on Sunday won the PGTI’s Rs 1.5 crore season-ending Tour Championship to end the year on a high with three titles, including the Joburg Open earlier this month.
Preferring to stay grounded, Sharma, who turned Pro after winning the All-India Amateur Championship 2013 in Kolkata, said his real aim is to break into the top-50 at the earliest.
“Tiger is my idol. I am really looking forward to playing with him at the Open. He is fit now and will play most probably,” Sharma said after prevailed over Delhi’s Rashid Khan by one shot en route to win the Tour Championship at RCGC.
“Now the doors are open, the real game will begin now. Obviously I will be more on the spotlight now. The focus is to get as many world ranking points as possible and break the top-50 as soon as possible,” Sharma said.
The Joburg victory had made him the youngest Indian to win on the European Tour, and fifth overall in an elite list of Arjun Atwal, Jeev Milkha Singh, SSP Chowrasia and Anirban Lahiri.
