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For the athlete also known as the "Flying Sikh", see Milkha Singh.
Jeev Milkha Singh 
Singh at the 2009 Omega European MastersPersonal information Full name Jeev Milkha Singh Born 15 December 1971
Chandigarh, IndiaHeight 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight 165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st) Nationality 
IndiaResidence Chandigarh, India Career College Abilene Christian University Turned professional 1993 Current tour(s) European Tour
Asian TourFormer tour(s) PGA Tour Professional wins 19 Number of wins by tour European Tour 3 Japan Golf Tour 4 Asian Tour 6 Best results in Major Championships Masters Tournament T25: 2008 U.S. Open T36: 2007 The Open Championship CUT: 2007 PGA Championship T9: 2008 Achievements and awards Padma Shri 2007 Asian Tour
Order of Merit2006, 2008 Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) is the first Indian professional golfer to become a member of the European Tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006.
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Early life
Singh was born in Chandigarh, India, in a Sikh Rajput[1] family to Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh and Nirmal Kaur, former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team.[2] He lives in Chandigarh.
Singh attended Abilene Christian University in the United States, obtaining a degree in business and international studies[3] in 1996.[4]
Career
Singh won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1993. He also won a number of amateur tournaments in the U.S. His first professional win came at the 1993 Southern Oklahoma State Open, a minor local event, but he played mainly in Asia, where he was a regular winner in the mid-1990s. In 1997 he finished seventh at the European Tour qualifying school, and he joined the tour the following year.
His best season in Europe up until 2006 was in 1999, when he came 50th on the Order of Merit. He struggled with injury in the early years of the new century but in April 2006 he won the Volvo China Open, becoming the second Indian player to win on the European Tour after Arjun Atwal. He also won the season ending Volvo Masters, which elevated him to a final position of 16th on the Order of Merit. He finished 2006 as the winner of the Asian Tour Order of Merit and capped his season with a pair of back to back wins in Japan to become the first Indian to make the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.[5] In 2007 he became the first Indian golfer to participate in the Masters Tournament.[6] In August 2008, Singh achieved the highest ranking for an Indian in any major event at the 2008 PGA Championship in Oakland Hills, finishing at T9, making him arguably India's best golfer ever.
Singh finished the 2008 European Tour season ranked 12th on the Order of Merit, and after winning the Barclays Singapore Open won his second Order of Merit title on the Asian Tour.
In 2009, Singh finished the WGC-CA Championship in fourth place, after leading round one.
Singh played on the Nationwide Tour in 2003. He played on the PGA Tour from 2007 to 2010, where his best finish was 4th place at the 2009 WGC-CA Championship.
Singh received India's fourth highest civil honour the Padma Shri in 2007.
Amateur wins (1)
Professional wins (19)
European Tour wins (3)
Singh at the Austrian Open 2008
No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of
VictoryRunner(s)-up 1 16 Apr 2006 Volvo China Open -10 (72–69–67–70=278) 1 stroke 
Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño2 29 Oct 2006 Volvo Masters -2 (71–71–68–72=282) 1 stroke 
Luke Donald, Sergio García,
Pádraig Harrington3 8 Jun 2008 Bank Austria GolfOpen -15 (64–63–71=198) 1 stroke Simon WakefieldAsian Tour wins (6)
- 1995 (2) Philippine Classic, Asian Matchplay Championship
- 1996 (1) Philip Morris Asia Cup
- 1999 (1) Lexus International
- 2006 (1) Volvo China Open (co-sanctioned with the European Tour)
- 2008 (1) Barclays Singapore Open
Japan Golf Tour wins (4)
No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of
VictoryRunner(s)-up 1 26 Nov 2006 Casio World Open -16 (66–69–69–68=272) 2 strokes 
David Smail2 3 Dec 2006 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup -11 (67–65–67–70=269) 1 stroke 
Nobuhiro Masuda3 27 Jul 2008 Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup -13 (67–74–68–66=275) 2 strokes Sushi Ishigaki4 7 Dec 2008 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup -12 (64–70–68–66=268) 2 strokes 
Brendan Jones, David Smail,
Taichi TeshimaOther wins (7)
- 1993 (2) Southern Oklahoma State Open, Bukit Kaira Golf Championship (Malaysia)
- 1994 (2) Shinhan Donghae Open (South Korea – not an Asian Tour event), Northern Indian Open
- 1995 (3) Thailand PGA Championship, Mahindra BPGC Open (India), Toyota Crown Open (Thailand)
Results in major championships
Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T37 T25 CUT U.S. Open T62 DNP DNP DNP T59 T36 DNP CUT The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT T9 T67 DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.Results in World Golf Championship events
Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Accenture Match Play Championship R64 DNP R64 R16 DNP Cadillac Championship T28 T26 4 DNP DNP Bridgestone Invitational T51 DNP T64 DNP DNP HSBC Champions – – T33 DNP T23 DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top 10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.European Tour professional career summary
Year Starts Cuts Made Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Earnings (€) Money list rank 1994 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a1 1995 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4,200 n/a1 1996 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6,944 n/a1 1997 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8,689 n/a1 1998 22 11 0 0 0 1 5 83,823 104 1999 24 15 0 1 1 2 8 222,783 50 2000 13 5 0 0 0 2 3 68,199 145 2001 17 10 0 0 0 2 4 174,011 108 2002 20 8 0 0 0 1 2 83,347 152 2003 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,773 n/a1 2004 5 3 0 0 0 1 1 28,817 n/a1 2005 7 5 0 0 0 1 2 42,845 n/a1 2006 16 11 2 0 0 4 8 1,173,177 16 2007 31 27 0 0 1 1 9 717,910 46 2008 24 19 1 2 0 8 15 1,170,109 10 2009 22 17 0 0 0 3 8 847,844 34 2010 15 10 0 0 0 2 7 393,449 74 Total 223 145 3 3 2 28 72 4,465,997 1 Not a full Tour member in these years
Team appearances
Amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing India): 1988, 1992
Professional
- Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing India): 1996, 1999
- Dynasty Cup (representing Rest of Asia): 2003 (winners)
- Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2007, 2010, 2011
- World Cup (representing India): 2008, 2009
See also
References
- ^ http://www.indiansportsnews.com/component/content/article/930-indian-sports-legends/1066-milkha-singh.html
- ^ "Jeev Milkha Singh," the south-asian.com June 2002. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- ^ "Carry on, Jeev," The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), 4 November 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^ "Wildcats lead way as LSC honors all-time top performers," ACU Today, Summer 2007, p.32. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^ Punjab Golf Association confers award on Jeev Milkha Singh, zeenews.com, 31 December 2006.
- ^ Record 34 European Tour Members Invited to Augusta
External links
- Official website
- Jeev Milkha Singh at the Asian Tour official site
- Jeev Milkha Singh at the European Tour official site
- Jeev Milkha Singh at the PGA Tour official site
- Jeev Milkha Singh at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Jeev Milkha Singh at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
Categories:- Indian male golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- European Tour golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- Indian Sikhs
- People from Chandigarh
- Abilene Christian University alumni
- Recipients of the Padma Shri
- Recipients of the Arjuna Award
- 1971 births
- Living people
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