SHUBHANKAR SHARMA AND GAGANJEET BHULLAR

JOIN ILLUSTRIOUS LIST OF OLYMPIANS, ALL SET TO REPRESENT INDIA AT PARIS 2024

Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar have joined the illustrious list of Olympians among golfers from India after the duo earned their berths for the Paris 2024 Olympics on the basis of the final men's Olympic Golf Ranking (OGR) list which was published on June 18.

Olympic debutants Shubhankar and Gaganjeet, both Arjuna Awardees and residents of the city of Chandigarh, punched their tickets to Paris after they were placed 48 and 54 respectively in the final OGR list. The OGR list is in turn based on the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) where Sharma and Bhullar were the top two Indians with rankings of 219 and 261 respectively.

Previously, India had been represented at the Olympics by Anirban Lahiri (Rio 2016 & Tokyo 2020), SSP Chawrasia (Rio 2016) and Udayan Mane (Tokyo 2020).

The men's golf event in Paris will feature 60 players and will be played at the Le Golf National from August 1 - 4.

The 27-year-old Shubhankar is a two-time DP World Tour winner, a former Asian Tour Order of Merit champion and a winner of the DP World Tour's Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award in 2018. The man with six Major appearances to his credit registered the best finish by an Indian at The Open last year when he secured tied eighth place. Sharma, the youngest Indian winner on the DP World Tour at age 21, has had a career-high world ranking of 64. He has secured one top-10 on the DP World Tour this year.