Shubhankar Sharma: Difference between revisions

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| caption          = Sharma after winning [[Professional Golf Tour of India]]'s 2017 Tour Championship

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| award1            = [[Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year|Sir Henry Cotton<br/>Rookie of the Year]]

| award2            = [[Asian Tour#Order of Merit winners|Asian Tour<br>Order of Merit]]

'''Shubhankar Sharma''' (born 21 July 1996) is a [[professional golfer]] from [[India]]. In December 2017, he recorded his first tour win in the [[Joburg Open]] and followed this with a second win at the [[Maybank Championship]] in February 2018. He studied at Bal Bhawan School, Bhopal.

Turning professional in 2013, Sharma played on the [[Asian Development Tour]] in 2014. He also finished fourth in the [[Panasonic Open India]], a [[2014 Asian Tour]] event.<ref name=atbio>{{cite web |url=http://www.asiantour.com/players/999641 |title=Shubhankar Sharma Profile |publisher=Asian Tour |access-date=10 December 2017}}</ref>

After these two events in February it was not until November that he showed a return to form with a top-10 finish in the [[UBS Hong Kong Open]], another event co-sanctioned with the European Tour.<ref name=atch>{{cite web |url=http://www.asiantour.com/players/999641/highlights |title=Shubhankar Sharma Career Highlights |publisher=Asian Tour |accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>

Two weeks later he came to more notice in the [[Joburg Open]] where a second round of 61, followed by a 65, gave him a five-stroke lead at the start of the last round.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2018/tournamentid=2017098/news/newsid=338985.html |title=Sharma storms ahead in Johannesburg |publisher=European Tour |date=9 December 2017 |accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref> The final round was delayed by bad weather but Sharma finished with a 69 for a three-stroke win over [[Erik van Rooyen]]. The event was part of the Open Qualifying Series and the win gave him an entry to the [[2018 Open Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2018/tournamentid=2017098/news/newsid=339093.html |title=Sharma romps to maiden win at Joburg Open |publisher=European Tour |date=11 December 2017 |access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>  The win also earned him full membership of the [[European Tour]].

Sharma had a final round 62 to win the [[Maybank Championship]] in February 2018, an event co-sanctioned by the [[Asian Tour]] and the [[European Tour]], two ahead of [[Jorge Campillo (golfer)|Jorge Campillo]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/22314533/shubhankar-sharma-claims-maybank-championship-title-final-round-62 |title=Shubhankar Sharma wins Maybank Championship with final-round 62 |work=ESPN |agency=Associated Press |date=4 February 2018}}</ref> The win lifted him into the world top-100 for the first time. He also took an early lead in the European Tour's [[Race to Dubai]], earning a place in the [[2018 WGC-Mexico Championship]] in March. At the [[WGC-Mexico Championship]] Sharma held the lead after the second and third rounds. However, he faltered with a final-round 74 and finished the tournament in a tie for ninth place. It was his first start in a PGA Tour event. Two days after the tournament he received an invitation to play in the [[2018 Masters Tournament|Masters Tournament]], his first major championship appearance and the fourth Indian to play in the Masters, [[Jeev Milkha Singh]], [[Arjun Atwal]] and [[Anirban Lahiri]] were the previous three to play.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/augusta-national-extends-masters-special-exemption-to-indias-shubhankar-sharma |title=Augusta National extends Masters special exemption to India's Shubhankar Sharma |magazine=Golf Digest |first=Joel |last=Beall |date=6 March 2018 |access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref>

|align=right|11 Dec 2017<br>([[2018 European Tour|2018]] season)

*2014 PGTI Cochin Masters

*2016 PGTI Players Championship, Kolkata Classic, Tata Open

*2017 TAKE Open Golf Championship, McLeod Russel Tour Championship

''Results not in chronological order before 2019.''

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*[http://www.pgtofindia.com/index.php?view=playerdetails&mem=00Wo Profile on PGTI's official site]