{"id":183,"date":"2011-10-11T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=183"},"modified":"2011-10-11T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:58:24","slug":"digvijay-hopes-to-save-his-asian-tour-card-at-indian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Digvijay hopes to save his Asian Tour card at Indian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>India\u2019s Digvijay Singh will rely on home comfort at  the Hero Indian Open starting Thursday as he battles to save his Asian  Tour card for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Digvijay is currently in 76th position on the Asian Tour Order  of Merit and knows the US$1.25 million event staged at the Delhi Golf  Club is his best opportunity to secure a good result or even a victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt  is absolutely an important week for me like it was last year because I  was in a similar position but secured my card in this very tournament,\u201d  said Digvijay, who needs to break and remain in the top-60 at the end of  the season to retain his Tour card for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Digvijay, who  has only two top-10 finishes on the Asian Tour in three years, will be  determined to produce his best form when he tees off in his National  Open where he finished in tied sixth in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t lose  interest in playing golf but the steam was running out a bit. The course  is set up well for the Indians and we always enjoy playing at the Delhi  Golf Club,\u201d said Digvijay, the brother-in-law to former Asian Tour  number one Jyoti Randhawa.<\/p>\n<p>He predicts a bright future for the  sport in India as the Hero Indian Open will be the fourth Asian Tour  event to be staged in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolf in India is booming. We  are only going upwards as far as money and exposure in the sport is  concern. With so many courses springing up in the country, I think we  will be having more tournaments in the future,\u201d said the 39-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s  Iain Steel, who has successfully secured his Asian Tour card since  2006, has endured an uncharacteristic run of poor form which has left  him in 111th place on the Order of Merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a  position I want to be in. Every week is a good week to save your card  with a good result. I\u2019m just trying to search for my A game at the  moment,\u201d said Steel, whose best finish in the Indian Open was in tied  21st place in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t done anything drastic to my game  yet. I think it is just a cycle I\u2019m going through and hopefully it ends  soon!\u201d said Steel, who was born in Sabah and currently resides in the  United States.<\/p>\n<p>Highly rated Namchok Tantipokhakul of Thailand  enjoyed a solid season last year where he missed out a dream victory  after losing in a play-off to Tetsuji Hiratsuka of Japan at the Black  Mountain Masters on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>He admits he has been struggling  to rediscover his impressive form but is eyeing to turn the corner at  the venerable Delhi Golf Club after receiving words of encouragement  from Thai veteran Thaworn Wiratchant, a 12-time Asian Tour winner, who  will also be in the field this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the Thai veterans  like Prom and Thaworn have been telling me to improve on my course  management and it will be very important for this week. On this course,  you need to keep a cool head and remain composed to get a good score,\u201d  said the 24-year-old, who is in 65th place on this year\u2019s money list.<\/p>\n<p>Edoardo  Molinari of Italy, ranked 55th in the world, will headline the Hero  Indian Open alongside title holder Rikard Karlberg of Sweden and S.S.P.  Chowrasia of India, currently second on the Asian Tour Order of Merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>India\u2019s Digvijay Singh will rely on home comfort at  the Hero Indian Open starting Thursday as he battles to save his Asian  Tour card for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digvijay hopes to save his Asian Tour card at Indian Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=183\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Digvijay hopes to save his Asian Tour card at Indian Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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