Jeev Milkha Singh is the only Indian golfer to be ranked
higher than 69. Jeev had achieved his career-best ranking of 29 back in 2009.
Anirban’s success in Macau
meant he bagged the winner’s cheque worth US$ 162,000 that took his
season’s tally to US$ 504,689. He thus consolidated his second place on
the Asian Tour Order of Merit and narrowed the gap on the leader David Lipsky of
the United States
who currently has season’s earnings of US$ 669,170. Lahiri now has two wins and
five other top-10s to his credit in an extremely successful 2014 Asian Tour
season.
Here’s a look at some of the other statistics relating to
Anirban’s latest triumph in Macau :
· Lahiri’s
16th career title and fifth international win
· Lahiri’s
second international title triumph outside India
· The
62nd win by an Indian at the international level
· It
was the 48th title triumph by an Indian on the Asian circuit
· Lahiri’s
five titles place him fifth on the list of Indians with most international
wins. Jeev Milkha Singh with 13 international titles leads this list followed
by Jyoti Randhawa (9 wins), Arjun Atwal (9 wins) and Gaganjeet Bhullar (6 wins)
· It is
the first time that Anirban has won two international events in the same
season. He also won the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters earlier in the year.
· Indians
now have three international titles in 2014. All three wins have been achieved
on the Asian Tour. Besides Anirban’s triumph in Indonesia earlier this year, Rashid
Khan also posted a win at the SAIL-SBI Open 2014.
· Lahiri
became the second Indian to win the Venetian Macau Open after Gaganjeet
Bhullar. Bhullar had won the event in 2012.
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