Two majors, two made cuts — Arjun Atwal is making his starts count in 2025
Arjun Atwal, India’s only PGA Tour winner, led the 3 Indians at the Senior British Open, carding rounds of 67-72-69-69 for a tied-24th finish at Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire.
Fellow Indian veterans Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa also creditably made it to the weekend but finished 56th and 61st respectively.
Since joining the senior ranks, Atwal has played in 18 PGA TOUR Champions events in America—seven in 2023, nine in 2024, and two this year, including qualifying for the U.S. Senior Open, where he finished 61st with rounds of 70-70-76-78.
Atwal has been quietly building a senior resume but is searching for a breakthrough. He remarkably made cuts in all nine starts last season, which included four top-20s and a standout T-5 at the 2024 Senior Open in Scotland—matching Anirban Lahiri’s best-ever finish by an Indian at a major.
At the top of the British Senior Open leaderboard, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington claimed his second senior major of the season with rounds of 67-65-65-67 to finish at 16-under, three clear of Thomas Bjørn and Justin Leonard.
For Indian golf, it was a week of pride and nostalgia as India’s big three, who put Indian golf on the world map with a host of international wins between 1995 and 2015 on every major tour in the world, proved they can still compete on the global stage.
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