Anirban Lahiri notched up India's best-ever result at a major championship by finishing tied fifth at the Professional Golfer Association (PGA) Championship on Sunday, August 16, leaving him in no doubt he belonged at golf's top table with the game's current crop of rising stars. The 28-year-old closed with an assured final round of four-under-par 68 and a 13-under total on the notoriously tricky Whistling Straits track, seven shots back of winner Jason Day of Australia who held off double major winner Jordan Spieth.

The biennial team event in South Korea would see Lahiri mix it again with Day and new world number one Spieth and the Indian said his PGA display, where he out-performed second-ranked Rory McIlory, showed he had no reason to feel inferior.

"I didn't really feel out of place. I think that's a massive positive for me," he said of his Sunday display where he played alongside world number 15 Matt Kuchar.

"I felt really comfortable whoever I was playing with and whenever I was playing and whatever I was doing, I felt very much at home. I think that's a good sign."

Lahiri, though, was already eyeing improvements. His second bogey of the day came on his final hole on Sunday and with it the opportunity to push for better playing opportunities.

"It's obviously the scoring aspect that I feel is lacking a little bit. I think that's where I need to tighten it up, just around the greens and make a few more 10 and 12-footers," he said.

"I think a couple of shots better would have got my card on the PGA Tour. So a little bummed about that," he further said.

Anirban Lahiri hits his tee shot on the second hole during the third round of the British Open golf championship on the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland | Source: Reuters