How does one convey the significance of an event for which there is no reference point? That's what makes it difficult to place the recent achievements of two young Indian golfers-Aditi Ashok and Avani Prashanth-within the order of peers among whom they rank. Before gushing any further, it would be appropriate to present the facts about Aditi Ashok: This March, she has been leading the Ladies European Tour's (LET) current season's rankings; she has won nearly half a million dollars in the three events she's played in just four weeks; and Ashok didn't just win, she routed the field by nine shots in Kenya. It's one of the biggest recorded margins of victory on the LET.
On to Prashanth: The 16-year-old amateur won the individual trophy at the Queen Sirikit Cup, and powered Team India to a second-place finish at the prestigious event. The Queen Sirikit Cup, officially known as the Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Golf Team Championship, is an annual amateur team golf championship for women organised by the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation. Simply put, there's no bigger stage or tougher field for a woman amateur in this part of the world. In case you're wondering, Prashanth won by ten strokes.
TWO FOR THE WIN
To say that Ashok and Prashanth have hit it out of the park would be an understatement. In a game as competitive as golf-where most events are decided by the margin of a stroke-to register such emphatic wins, against world class fields isn't just improbable, it's unfathomable. If someone had laid odds on either to win, and by such margins, I reckon that wager would have brought in more moolah that the prize purse of the event. Okay that's hyperbole, but you get the picture.
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