Sports · 4 October 2026
Pranavi Urs to receive ₹1 crore from IGPL for first Indian women's Asian Games golf gold; Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar get ₹25 lakh each for team silver
Exam-focused facts from the 4 October 2026 current affairs briefing.
Key facts
- IGPL will award Pranavi Urs ₹1 crore for winning the women's individual golf gold at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, making her the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games golf gold.
- The league will award ₹25 lakh individually to Pranavi Urs, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar for winning the women's team silver, India's first medal in that event.
- Pranavi Urs, 23, from Mysuru, finished at 15-under 265 at the Kasugai Country Club East Course; Singapore's Shannon Xuan Yin Tan and China's Yin Ruoning tied for second at 14-under 266.
- In the final round, Pranavi made a triple bogey on the par-four third hole that erased her three-shot lead, then birdied the sixth and signed for an even-par 70.
- India had not won an Asian Games golf gold since Shiv Kapur's men's individual title in 2002.
- In the team event, India finished on 14-under, behind China, with Aditi Ashok shooting a three-under 67 with six straight birdies on the back nine on Saturday.
- Anurag Singh Thakur announced the awards on behalf of AM Green IGPL at Qutab Golf Course in New Delhi.
- The second season of the AM Green IGPL moves to Hyderabad from October 7 to October 9 after the Delhi leg.