Anirban Lahiri
| Anirban Lahiri | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
29 June 1987 Pune, India |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Nationality |
 India
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| Residence | Bangalore, India |
| Spouse | Ipsa Jamwal Lahiri (m. 2014) |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2007 |
| Current tour(s) |
Asian Tour European Tour PGA Tour |
| Former tour(s) | Professional Golf Tour of India |
| Professional wins | 18 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 2 |
| Asian Tour | 7 |
| Other | 11 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T42: 2016 |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2015, 2016 |
| The Open Championship | T30: 2015 |
| PGA Championship | T5: 2015 |
| Achievements and awards | |
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Professional Golf Tour of India Order of Merit winner |
2009 |
| Asian Tour Order of Merit |
2015 |
Anirban Lahiri (Anirbāṇ Lāhiṛī; born 29 June 1987) is an Indian professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour, Asian Tour, and PGA Tour.
Lahiri learned to play golf at the age of eight from his father, Dr. Tushar Lahiri, a physician with the armed forces who was also a recreational golfer. "I would just go out there and I would go pick up golf balls for him, and we would go chip, putt for 15 minutes because it was getting dark," Lahiri remembers. "That's how it all started."
Lahiri joined the Asian Tour in 2008. He picked up his first victory in 2011 at the Panasonic Open and his second victory in 2012 at the SAIL-SBI Open. His best finish on the Order of Merit came in 2014 with his maiden overseas win on the Asian Tour - CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters which he later followed up with another one at the Venetian Macau Open . He finished 3rd on the Order of Merit in 2013.
Lahiri broke into the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in March 2014 following a consistent season which included two victories on the Asian Tour.
Lahiri has also had a lot of success on the Professional Golf Tour of India, where he has won eleven events and the Order of Merit in 2009.
The big break came for him when qualified for his maiden major tournament – the 2012 Open Championship at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire. He made it a most memorable outing, first by making the cut (68-72) and then with a hole-in-one at the par-3 9th hole in the third round en route to a T31 finish.
In February 2015, Lahiri claimed his first official win on the European Tour at the Maybank Malaysian Open, with a one stroke victory over Bernd Wiesberger. He shot a 10-under-par round of 62 during the third round to position himself going into the final day and came from four shots behind to prevail by one shot. Later the same month, Lahiri won his second event on the European Tour in his home country of India, at the Hero Indian Open. He came from seven strokes behind in the final round to force a playoff with Shiv Chowrasia, which he won with a birdie on the first extra hole. The two wins shot Lahiri into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking qualifying him for the 2015 Masters Tournament. He was labelled as a "rookie to watch" and the "new face of Indian golf." He is the third Indian national to play in the Masters, after Jeev Milkha Singh and Arjun Atwal. He made the cut at his first appearance and ended the tournament with scores of 71-75-74-72 on his four rounds, leaving him tied for 49th with Jason Dufner.
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