Jeev leads a strong Indian contingent at Hong Kong Open

November 9th, 2009 more images more imagesNEW DELHI - Soon after young golfer Anirban Lahiri won his second professional title at the BILT Open Sunday, he received a call that he has found a berth in the UBS Hong Kong Open. Lahiri, who is counted in the group of promising youngsters to hit the Asian golf scene in the last one year or so and received a similar late call for Singapore Open last year, was overjoyed at the Hong Kong call-up.

October 21st, 2009 JOHOR BAHRU - India's Rahil Gangjee has topped the qualifiers to earn a berth into the main UBS Hong Kong Open tournament next month. Gangjee will tee off against the likes of Korea's Yang Yong-eun, Chinese Taipei's Lin Wen-tang and Northern Irish youngster Rory Mcllroy after securing one of the top three spots to the $2.5 million UBS Hong Kong Open at the international qualifying tournament on Wednesday.

October 21st, 2009 HONG KONG - Anil Kumble, former India cricket captain and one of the legends of the game, will be joined by IPL sensation Manish Pandey and former India fast bowler Lakshimpathy Balaji in the Indian team for the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes here Oct 31-Nov 1. The 2005 Player of the Tournament at the Hong Kong Sixes, Reetinder Sodhi, will return once again for the tournament to be played at the Kowloon Cricket Club.

October 20th, 2009 Sampras says Federer still has Grand Slams left HONG KONG — Pete Sampras predicts Roger Federer still has a few more Grand Slam titles to win despite his recent loss in the U.S. Open final. "Roger is going to win some more majors.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Arjun Atwal, who won the Indian Open exactly 10 years ago in 1999, Wednesday confirmed his participation to give the field for the Hero Honda Indian Open 2009 a big boost. Atwal, who last competed in the Indian Open in 2005, the year Hero Honda took over the sponsorship of the event, has since been playing in the US on the PGA and Nationwide Tours.

September 13th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong people bet over $100 million on the first day of the horse racing season in what is seen as a healthy sign for the city's economy, race organisers said Monday. Turnover on Sunday's race day was 833 million Hong Kong dollars ($107.48 million), around two million Hong Kong dollars more than on the opening day of the season last year.

July 24th, 2009 Kobe Bryant arrives in Hong Kong for China tour HONG KONG — Kobe Bryant ran drills for a group of Hong Kong youngsters as the Los Angeles Lakers star arrived in China for the final leg of his summer Asian tour. "It's great to be back in Hong Kong," Bryant said Friday after walking into a packed basketball stadium in Hong Kong's Wan Chai office district to chants of "Kobe, MVP." After watching a group of local youngsters play in a brief game, the 30-year-old guard picked three players and drilled them on moves like the hook shot, the jump shot and the crossover.

July 14th, 2009 TURNBERRY - The nagging muscle injury which Tuesday forced Jeev Milkha Singh to pull out leaves young Gaganjeet Bhullar as Indias lone challenger at the British Open at the Turnberry Golf Course. Earlier in the day, Jeev, reigning Asian Tour No.1, withdrew due to a muscle injury in the rib-cage area.

July 14th, 2009 TURNBERRY - A nagging muscle injury forced Jeev Milkha Singh to take the painful decision of pulling out of the British Open at Turnberry Golf Course here Tuesday. The 38-year-old Indian, who has played 10 Majors in his career and made the cut in six of them including a top-10 at PGA Championships last year, came to Turnberry hoping he had recovered from the inter-costal muscle injury which has dogged him since the European Open almost two months ago.

July 4th, 2009 PARIS - Finishing blues cost Indian golfers dearly, as Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia, was the only one of the four to make the midway cut at Open de Alstom Friday. Even Chowrasia bogeyed three of his last six holes, and dropped from a likely top-15 placing to tied 44th at the Le Golf National here.

June 21st, 2009 FARMINGDALE - Jeev Milkha Singh, the standard bearer of Indian golf, has a good number of his family members here at the US Open. While wife Kudrat travels with him most of the time, also present at Bethpage are his legendary athlete dad Milkha Singh, mother Nirmal Singh and his sister Mona, who lives in New York.

June 20th, 2009 FARMINGDALE - Jeev Milkha Singh, the standard bearer of Indian golf, has a good number of his family members here at the US Open. While wife Kudrat travels with him most of the time, also present at Bethpage are his legendary athlete dad Milkha Singh, mother Nirmal Singh and his sister Mona, who lives in New York.

June 6th, 2009 NEWPORT - Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh had an adventurous round of three-under 68 as he moved to tied fourth after the second round at the Celtic Manor Wales Open. Jeev is two shots behind the leader, European Tour rookie Richie Ramsay of Scotland, who had a two day total of seven-under 135.

May 31st, 2009 ASH - Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh strung together one of his finest rounds in the face of adverse conditions on a tough course to move into a three-shot lead at the end of the third round of the European Open. The Indian ace, a multiple winner on the European Tour, Saturday shot a one-under 71 that included three birdies in last four holes and four-under over last six, to move to nine-under 208.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - It seemed an Indian summer at the European Open with all three Indians in the fray placed inside top-six at the end of the first round at the London Golf Club. While Jyoti Randhawa, fresh from a skydiving holiday in the US, shot a six-under 66 to be tied second, Jeev Milkha Singh shot a 67 and Shiv kapur, who of late has taken to meditation, also brought home a 67.