Golf: Anirban Lahiri Finishes Tied 5th In PGA Championship, Creates History For India

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Golf: Anirban Lahiri Finishes Tied 5th In PGA Championship, Creates History For India


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.



He has won four times on the Asian Tour, with two of those triumphs coming crucially in tournaments co-sanctioned by the European Tour that carried more weight. His world ranking has surged from 195th to 38th with a spot on the Internationals team for the Presidents Cup in October all but assured.

Anirban Lahiri plays from the sixth tee during the final round at the British Open Golf Championship at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland. Source: PTI

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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.

Anirban Lahiri hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during the third round of the 2015 PGA Championship golf tournament at Whistling Straits | Source: Reuters

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