Shubhankar Sharma

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Shubhankar Sharma
Shubhankar Sharma after winning 2017 Professional Golf Tour of India Tour Championship.png
Sharma after winning the Professional Golf Tour of India's 2017 McLeod Russel Tour Championship
Personal information
Born (1996-07-21) 21 July 1996 (age 27)
Jhansi, India
Sporting nationalityFlag of India.svg  India
Career
Turned professional2013
Current tour(s) Asian Tour
European Tour
Former tour(s) Professional Golf Tour of India
Professional wins8
Highest ranking 64 (11 March 2018) [1]
(as of 1 October 2023)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour2
Asian Tour2
Sunshine Tour1
Other6
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 2018
PGA Championship CUT: 2018
U.S. Open CUT: 2018
The Open Championship T8: 2023
Achievements and awards
Sir Henry Cotton
Rookie of the Year 		2018
Asian Tour
Order of Merit winner 		2018

Shubhankar Sharma (born 21 July 1996) is an Indian professional golfer. In December 2017, he recorded his first tour win in the Joburg Open and followed this with a second win at the Maybank Championship in February 2018. He studied at Bal Bhawan School, Bhopal.

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The President, Ram Nath Kovind, presenting the Arjuna Award to Sharma at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, on 25 September 2018. The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Arjuna Award, 2018 to Shri Shubhankar Sharma for Golf, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on September 25, 2018.JPG
The President, Ram Nath Kovind, presenting the Arjuna Award to Sharma at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, on 25 September 2018.

Professional career

Turning professional in 2013, Sharma played on the Asian Development Tour in 2014. He also finished fourth in the Panasonic Open India, a 2014 Asian Tour event. [2]

From 2015 to 2017, Sharma played primarily on the Asian Tour. He played in the TAKE Solutions India Masters on the 2015 Asian Development Tour, losing in a playoff to S. Chikkarangappa. The following week he was fourth in the Panasonic Open India on the Asian Tour. [2] In 2016, Sharma finished third in the Bashundhara Bangladesh Open and tied for fourth in the Resorts World Manila Masters and finished 51st in the Order of Merit. [2]

Sharma started 2017 finishing fourth in the Bashundhara Bangladesh Open and in the top-10 in the Maybank Championship, an event co-sanctioned with the European Tour. After these two events in February it was not until November that he showed a return to form with a top-10 finish in the UBS Hong Kong Open, another event co-sanctioned with the European Tour. [3]

Two weeks later he came to more notice in the Joburg Open where a second round of 61, followed by a 65, gave him a five-stroke lead at the start of the last round. [4] The final round was delayed by bad weather but Sharma finished with a 69 for a three-stroke win over Erik van Rooyen. The event was part of the Open Qualifying Series and the win gave him an entry to the 2018 Open Championship. [5] The win also earned him full membership of the European Tour.

Sharma had a final round 62 to win the Maybank Championship in February 2018, an event co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour, two ahead of Jorge Campillo. [6] The win lifted him into the world top-100 for the first time. He also took an early lead in the European Tour's Race to Dubai, earning a place in the 2018 WGC-Mexico Championship in March. At the WGC-Mexico Championship Sharma held the lead after the second and third rounds. However, he faltered with a final-round 74 and finished the tournament in a tie for ninth place. It was his first start in a PGA Tour event. Two days after the tournament he received an invitation to play in the Masters Tournament, his first major championship appearance and the fourth Indian to play in the Masters, Jeev Milkha Singh, Arjun Atwal and Anirban Lahiri were the previous three to play. [7]

Personal life

Sharma is a strict vegetarian for ethical and religious reasons, who has stated that he has never consumed meat in his life. [8] He is also allergic to gluten. [8]

Professional wins (8)

European Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
111 Dec 2017
(2018 season)		 Joburg Open 1,2−23 (69-61-65-69=264)3 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Erik van Rooyen
24 Feb 2018 Maybank Championship 2−21 (70-69-66-62=267)2 strokes Flag of Spain.svg Jorge Campillo

1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

Asian Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
111 Dec 2017 Joburg Open 1,2−23 (69-61-65-69=264)3 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Erik van Rooyen
24 Feb 2018 Maybank Championship 2−21 (70-69-66-62=267)2 strokes Flag of Spain.svg Jorge Campillo

1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Professional Golf Tour of India wins (6)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
112 Apr 2014 Cochin Masters−9 (33-37-33-32=135)2 strokes Flag of India.svg Rashid Khan, Flag of India.svg Sanjay Kumar
219 Feb 2016 PGTI Players Championship (Eagleton)−24 (65-70-64-65=264)6 strokes Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Anura Rohana
325 Mar 2016Kolkata Classic−9 (68-72-71-68=279)1 stroke Flag of India.svg Shankar Das, Flag of India.svg Khalin Joshi
418 Dec 2016Tata Open−20 (64-63-70-67=264)1 stroke Flag of India.svg Rashid Khan
515 Oct 2017 TAKE Open Golf Championship−12 (68-70-71-67=276)2 strokes Flag of India.svg Aman Raj
624 Dec 2017McLeod Russel Tour Championship−17 (66-70-67-68=271)1 stroke Flag of India.svg Rashid Khan

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.

Tournament201820192020202120222023
Masters Tournament CUT
PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship T51T51NTT8
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament20182019
Championship T9T60
Match Play T59
Invitational T69
Champions T69
  Top 10
  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied

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References

  1. ↑ "Week 10 2018 Ending 11 Mar 2018" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Shubhankar Sharma Profile". Asian Tour. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Shubhankar Sharma Career Highlights". Asian Tour. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sharma storms ahead in Johannesburg". European Tour. 9 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sharma romps to maiden win at Joburg Open". European Tour. 11 December 2017. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Shubhankar Sharma wins Maybank Championship with final-round 62". ESPN. Associated Press. 4 February 2018. Archived from the original on 6 February 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Beall, Joel (6 March 2018). "Augusta National extends Masters special exemption to India's Shubhankar Sharma". Golf Digest. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 Levins, Keely (30 April 2018). "Shubhankar Sharma Is The Rare Vegetarian Tour Pro". Golf Digest. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
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