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Seventeen-year-old Aadil Bedi, one of the rising stars on the Indian golfing horizon who turned professional only two months back, took a giant stride in his fledgling career by qualifying for the Asian Tour on Sunday.<\/p>\nSeventeen-year-old Aadil Bedi, one of the rising stars on the Indian golfing horizon who turned professional only two months back, took a giant stride in his fledgling career by qualifying for the Asian Tour on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Three other Indians, including 23-year-old Aman Raj, former Asian Tour winner Chiragh Kumar and Abhijit Singh Chadha, also earned their Asian Tour cards after finishing inside the top-35 players and ties at the end of the fifth and final round of the 2019 Asian Tour Qualifying School\u2019s Final Stage.<\/p>\n
Aadil Bedi (67-72-68-69-63), the youngest player to tee up in the Final Stage, fired a sensational eight-under-63 in the last round to finish tied ninth at 16-under-339, the best among the Indians, to earn full playing rights in Asia. Notably, it was the Chandigarh-based teenager\u2019s maiden attempt at qualification.<\/p>\n
Bedi, one of India\u2019s leading amateurs prior to turning professional this year who also represented the country at the 2018 Asian Games, gained 27 spots from his overnight tied 36th<\/sup> as a result of his bogey-free final round of 63 at the Lakeview Resort and Golf Club in Thailand on Sunday.<\/p>\n The supremely fit Aadil, who notched a career-best third place finish at the PGTI\u2019s Bengaluru Open earlier this month, said, \u201cI lost a dear friend on the first day, back home. It was tough mentally, but I managed to play well and I\u2019m glad that it has all come together. I had that belief in myself and that I have the game to earn the card.<\/p>\n \u201cNow that I\u2019ve earned the card, there\u2019s more purpose in my practice and I\u2019ll be definitely looking forward to the tournaments that I get to play. It was difficult to focus at times. When there are long waits between holes, or between rounds at night, I think about my friend. But, it was a good week. I\u2019ve played really solid in all parts of my game.\u201d<\/p>\n Aman Raj (69-64-74-68-65), the 2016 PGTI Emerging Player of the Year who went on to win his first professional title at the PGTI event in Jaipur this year, made the progression to the Asian Tour for the first time in his career after finishing tied 13th<\/sup> at the Q School with a total of 15-under-340. The Patna-based professional\u2019s flawless final round of six-under-65 featured some long birdie conversions and propelled him 14 places from his overnight tied 27th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Aman said, \u201cMy putting was exceptional through the week. The second round of 64 set up the week for me. It gave me the belief that I could finish inside the top-5. I now look forward to my first full season on the Asian Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n Chiragh Kumar finished tied 35th<\/sup> at 10-under-345 to retain his Asian Tour card. Abhijit Singh Chadha, who also took a share of 35th<\/sup> place, claimed his card to make a return to the Asian Tour after a gap of three years. Both players shot final rounds of even-par-71 to drop 15 places from their overnight tied 20th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n The event was won by American Austen Truslow who totaled 24-under-331.<\/p>\n The four other Indians who had made the fourth round cut of the top-70 and ties but did not finish among the top-35 and ties after round five and thus missed their card, were Amardip Malik and Veer Ahlawat (both tied 57th<\/sup> at seven-under-348), Karandeep Kochhar (tied 65th<\/sup> at five-under-350) and Gaurav Pratap Singh (71st<\/sup> at even-par-355).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seventeen-year-old Aadil Bedi, one of the rising stars on the Indian golfing horizon who turned professional only two months back, took a giant stride in his fledgling career by qualifying for the Asian Tour on Sunday. Three other Indians, including 23-year-old Aman Raj, former Asian Tour winner Chiragh Kumar and Abhijit Singh Chadha, also earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf-golf"],"yoast_head":"\n