Mauritius Open: All eyes on Shubhankar Sharma
The HinduShubhankar Sharma has rediscovered his touch after a prolonged lean phase, and will be among many Indians looking to impress at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open that starts here on Thursday. Turkey was the year’s first top-10 result for Shubhankar, winner of two European Tour titles in the space of three months and one of the four Indians to have participated in The Masters. Read | PGTI event returns to Royal Calcutta Golf Club Big names such as the seasoned Jeev Milkha Singh, Shiv Kapoor, S. S. P. Chawrasia, Jyoti Randhawa, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Rahil Gangjee, Khalin Joshi and Chiragh Kumar are among the other Indians competing in the European Tour, Asian Tour and Sunshine Tour event with a prize purse of EUR 100,000. South Africa’s four-time European Tour winner George Coetzee — the winner of this event in 2015 — will be participating, as will, among others, France’s Benjamin Hebert, Romain Langasque, Gregory Havret and Raphael Jacquelin and Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts and Thomas Pieters.