Lahiri formally gets his PGA Tour card
INCH EON( KOREA ): Even as Anirban Lahiri is completely focused on doing duty for the Inter national Team at the President’s Cup beginning Thursday, his card and status for the PGA Tour for 2016 was confirmed on Sunday at the end of the Web.com Final Series.
The Indian ace, who skipped the last two events of the fourevent finals, finished in the Top25 of the Money List compiled for the Four event finals and joined the Top-25 earners from the regular season. A total of 50 cards are given out at the end of the Web.com Tour Final Series.
Currently Lahiri, winner of two Asia-European Tour events at Malaysian Open and Hero Indian Open, is in Incheon in the Internationals team, which takes on United States this week in the President’s Cup. Lahiri skipped the last two events of the Web.com Final series to get rest and get set for the biennial team event.
Lahiri also has his coach, Vijay Divecha in Korea for the week and is keen to make a mark in a team that has a bunch of Asia-born players in the team, including Thongchai Jaidee, winner of the European Open recently, and Danny Lee, who was in Top-5 at the PGA Tour Championships.
Lahiri, who made US $ 49,750 from his two appearances, in which he finished T-sixth and T-16th, was 16th in the Finals list after removing six players, who had already ensured their card by finishing in Top-25 of the regular season, which ended before four-event Finals.
“I felt I had done the job after the second event,” Lahiri had said on arrival in Incheon for the President’s Cup, where he becomes the first Indian to play for the International Team.
Lahiri now becomes the third Indian after Arjun Atwal and Jeev Milkha Singh to hold a PGA Tour card. Atwal did that by winning the Wyndham Championships in 2010 and then Jeev, who topped the Asian Tour Money List in 2006 and 2008, had the PGA Tour card from 2008-2010 on the strength of his performances.