Pranavi Urs claims India's first women's golf gold at Asian Games

Key facts

• Pranavi Urs, a 23-year-old from Mysuru, won the women's individual golf gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the first by an Indian woman and India's first golf gold since Shiv Kapur's men's title at Busan in 2002.
• The women's individual stroke play final was held at the Kasugai Country Club East course.
• Pranavi tallied 15-under 265 (66, 63, 66, 70) to win by one shot over China's Yin Ruoning, the world No.6, a former world No.1 and Major winner; Yin took silver after a playoff win over Singapore's Shannon Tan, with both tied second at 14-under.
• Pranavi, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar won the women's team silver at 14-under, behind China's winning 22-under aggregate, with Chinese Taipei taking the bronze at -10.
• Aditi Ashok shot a 3-under 67 to finish T14 at 2-over 282, while Diksha Dagar ended T23 at 12-over after a final-round 77.
• Pranavi started playing golf at age 8, represented India in the 2017 amateur Malaysian Open and Asia Pacific Sirikit Cup at 14, earned an international golf scholarship in the Bahamas via the Upgame analytics platform, and has been coached for eight years by Australian coach Steven Guiliano.
• Pranavi has spent the last three years on the Ladies European Tour and was inspired by Aditi Ashok's fourth-place finish at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
• She will next aim for a first LET title at this month's Hero Women's Indian Open.
• In the men's event, India finished sixth in the team competition, with Veer Ahlawat and Saptak Talwar tied sixth and Yuvraj Sandhu T24, while Korea's Kim Jooyung, a 4-time PGA Tour winner known as Tom Kim, won the individual gold by three shots.