Aditi Ashok

Aditi Ashok

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Aditi Ashok Profile

  • Name:
  • Aditi Ashok
  • Born:
  • March 29, 1998
  • Profession / Known For:
  • Golf
  • Education:
  • She completed her schooling at Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore

  • Hobbies:
  • She enjoy reading books, watching movies and listening to music. Other interests are :-  Art, Craft, Skating, Hula-Hooping during her childhood.

  • Achievements:
  • BRIEF SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS as a junior and amateur (till 31st Dec 2015)

    Finished Amateur Career as World No. 11 on World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) as the Best Indian Amateur and Best Asian Amateur as on 31st December 2015

    ADITI ASHOK is the youngest and first Indian to win LET’s Lalla Aicha Tour School 2016 with the lowest winning score of 23 under par at 17 years. With this victory she also became the first Indian (male or female) to win qualifying school of any internationally ranked tour. She equaled the men’s course record and set a new women’s course record with her career’s lowest round of 10 under par on Samanah Country Club.

    She is the only Indian golfer to have played the Asian Youth Games (2013) Youth Olympic Games (2014) and Asian Games (2014).

    She has 6 International Wins, 17 titles including 5 Low Amateur finishes in LPGA/LET events and has an impressive tally of top 10 finishes.

    She is the first Asian to win the 2015 St. Rule Trophy and Lawson Trophy (St Andrews Links).

    She is the first Asian as SILVER MEDALIST and Runner-up at the International European Ladies Amateur Championship 2015 (Murhof GC).

    She is the first Indian to win Ladies British Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship 2015 – Nicholls Trophy and Dinwiddy Trophy (Moortown GC).

    She is the first Indian to win the 81st Singha Thailand Amateur 2015 (Panya Indra GC).

    She is a winner of 2 WGAI professional events and has made cuts in 15 of the 16 professional events played.

    She is the first Indian to play the Sime Darby LPGA 2015 (KLGCC), finished Low amateur and Tied 42nd.

    She is the first Indian Amateur to play the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters 2014 (Emirates GC) finished Tied 38th.

    She is the first Indian Amateur to play the Sanya Ladies Open 2015 (Yalong Bay GC) finished Tied 36th.

    She has a growing list of records including being the youngest winner of WGAI’s professional tournament in 2011 at 13 years 5 months.

    She equaled the women’s amateur course record of 8 under par on the New Course, St. Andrews Links in May 2015 and set a women’s course record of 8 under par at Karnataka Golf Association, Bangalore in July 2015.

    She was low Amateur thrice in LET Hero Women’s Indian Open 2012, 2014 and 2015 at T8th, T14th and T13th respectively.

    She is a three-time National Junior Champion for 2014, 2013, 2012 and a two-time National Amateur Champion for 2014, 2011.

    She is a winner of numerous national titles and had her maiden win at 9 years and 10 months.

    Played for Team India since the age of 12.

     

Aditi Ashok Biography

 Aditi Ashok, born on 29-March-1998 in Bangalore, India.
 Aditi (a-di-ti) is of Sanskrit origin and its meaning is “boundless”. In Hindu cosmology, Aditi is the mother of the gods.

Finished her schooling at The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore from 2002-2016.

She started learning golf at  5 1/2  and played her first round at the age of 6 years  and been playing since. Bangalore Golf Club is her home club. She also took practice & play at Karnataka Golf Association.

Her golf coach is Mr Steven Giuliano, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and her strength and conditioning coach is Mr Nicolas Cabaret, Annecy, France

Turned Professional on 1st January 2016. Eighteen-year-old Aditi was slotted 58th among the women who had qualified for the Rio Games. She's ranked 439th on the official women's world rankings list but that didn't make any difference to her approach coming into the Games and facing off against higher-ranked opponents.

In the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Aditi, the youngest contender and only Indian woman golfer in the fray, was able, for the most part of the first 36 holes, to tail the top spot on the leaderboard. She even shared the lead briefly before falling away in the third round.

More Information about Aditi Ashok

 

A student at Bangalore’s Frank Anthony Public School, Aditi has been a consistent figure on the Indian amateur golfing scene. She turned professional in January 1, 2016, after an illustrious amateur career.

She made history when she became the first player from the country to win the Ladies British amateur stroke-play championship at Leeds, in 2015.

She won the St. Rule Trophy at St. Andrews and finished second in the 2015 European Women’s Amateur Championship, also claimed the overall title called ‘The Nicholls Trophy’ as well as the ‘Dinwiddy Trophy’ given for the lowest score by an under-18 player.

She is the only Indian golfer to have played the Asian Youth Games (2013) Youth Olympic Games (2014) and Asian Games (2014).

She is a three-time National Junior Champion for 2014, 2013, 2012 and a two-time National Amateur Champion for 2014, 2011.

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Updated: August 20, 2016

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