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New Delhi: Thai star golfer Kiradech Aphibarnrat has confirmed his participation for the upcoming Hero Indian Open, to be held in Gurugram from March 9 to 12, it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Thai star golfer Kiradech Aphibarnrat has confirmed his participation for the upcoming Hero Indian Open, to be held in Gurugram from March 9 to 12, it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old big-built Thai has six professional titles, three of which came in 2013, when he was crowned Asia No.1.<\/p>\n
Former Asia No.1 Kiradech, who is now ranked 76th in the world — his best was 37th in December 2015, is no stranger to India, having played a few times till 2013. In 2011, he won his first Asian Tour title at the SAIL Open in India.<\/p>\n
Kiradech, who spent 2016 playing three Tours — Asian, European and US Tours, has had a great start to the season with two Top-10 finishes in the Middle-East, where he was tied fourth in Abu Dhabi and T-9 in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Former World Junior champion Kiradech, ended the 2013 season as the Asian Tour Order of Merit champion, on the strength of one victory and five other top-five finishes.<\/p>\n
Another rising Thai to be seen in Hero Indian Open 2017 will be the 17-year-old prodigy Phachara Khongwatmai, who was runner-up to Brett Rumford at the ISPS Handa World Super Six in Perth last week. Phachara, who has twice finished runner-up — at Singapore and Perth — is now world ranked 149.<\/p>\n
The Indian Open will be held at the Gary Player course at the DLF Golf & Country Club.<\/p>\n
The prize purse has been enhanced to $1.75 million, which is almost six times more than $300,000, which it was when Hero took on the title sponsorship of the Indian Open in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Thai star golfer Kiradech Aphibarnrat has confirmed his participation for the upcoming Hero Indian Open, to be held in Gurugram from March 9 to 12, it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old big-built Thai has six professional titles, three of which came in 2013, when he was crowned Asia No.1.<\/p>\n
Former Asia No.1 Kiradech, who is now ranked 76th in the world — his best was 37th in December 2015, is no stranger to India, having played a few times till 2013. In 2011, he won his first Asian Tour title at the SAIL Open in India.<\/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":[158,12943,1047,466,1212],"class_list":["post-33540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-asian-tour","tag-golf-news","tag-hero-indian-open","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kiradech-aphibarnrat"],"yoast_head":"\n