PGA Championship: Aditi Ashok to play her twenty fourth Major, most by any Indian

Aditi Ashok, presently having fun with her finest LPGA season, is all set to compete in her twenty fourth Major, most by any Indian golfer, when she tees off on the PGA Championship, right here on Thursday.

The subsequent one, which would be the Women’s US Open, will make it an excellent 25 for the Indian, who missed the Olympic bronze by a whisker.

Aditi, who has already notched up 4 Top-10 finishes in final 5 stroke play begins, additionally achieved her career-best tied second place on the JM Eagle LA Championship.

She has risen to fifteenth on the Race to CME Globe and is at a career-high forty seventh place on the world rankings record. She can also be main on the opposite facet of the Atlantic on the Ladies European Tour, however by slightly below 4 factors and can seemingly be overtaken on the finish of the week.

However, for this week, Aditi’s focus is on the Women’s PGA Championship. Aditi has an amazing file on the Ladies European Tour, the place she received her first title in her Rookie Year in 2016 at her house occasion, the Hero Women’s Indian Open. She has received the occasion thrice.

Despite that observe file and her current displaying on LPGA, Aditi has nonetheless not been in a position to translate that into good outcomes on the Majors.

Her finest ever in any Major has been T-22 on the British Open in 2018 and the perfect in Women’s PGA has been T-29 in 2017. She shall be desperately trying to higher that and contemplating her current constant displaying on the LPGA, that might be on the playing cards.

Aditi, who has added extra distance off the tee and proven superb placing kind, will play her first spherical with Georgia Hall and Moriya Jutanugarn from the tenth tee in afternoon wave.