Arjun Atwal
| Arjun Atwal | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Arjun Singh Atwal |
| Born |
20 March 1973 Asansol, India |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) |
| Nationality |
 India
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| Residence |
Kolkata, India; Windermere, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse | Sona (m.2000) |
| Children | Ritika, Krishen |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1995 |
| Current tour(s) |
Asian Tour PGA Tour (past champion status) |
| Former tour(s) |
European Tour Web.com Tour |
| Professional wins | 12 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 1 |
| European Tour | 3 |
| Asian Tour | 8 |
| Web.com Tour | 1 |
| Other | 2 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | CUT: 2011 |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2010 |
| The Open Championship | CUT: 2004 |
| PGA Championship | CUT: 2005, 2011 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Asian Tour Order of Merit |
2003 |
Arjun Singh Atwal (born 20 March 1973) is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win a tournament on the U.S.-based PGA Tour.
Born in a Sikh family to Harminder Singh Atwal (a well known industrialist) of Asansol and Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Atwal took up golf at the age of fourteen, playing at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club and Tollygunge Club. He also spent two years at school in the United States, attending W. Tresper Clarke High School, in Westbury, New York. His elder brother Govind Singh Atwal is also a keen golfer.
After turning professional in 1995 he became one of the leading players on the Asian Tour, topping the order of merit in 2003 and becoming the first man to win a million U.S. dollars on the tour by winning the Hero Honda Masters on home soil in the same year. Atwal was the second Indian golfer to earn membership of the European Tour after Jeev Milkha Singh and the first to win on a European Tour event when he notched up a five stroke victory in the 2002 Caltex Singapore Masters, which was co-sanctioned by the Asian and European Tours. A second European Tour win followed at the Carlsberg Malaysian Open in 2003. Late in the same year Atwal finished seventh at the PGA Tour's qualifying school in the U.S., earning a PGA Tour card for 2004, making him the first native East Indian golfer to do so. (The most famous golfer of Indian origin, longtime PGA Tour mainstay and multiple major winner Vijay Singh, is a native of Fiji.) In his 2004 rookie season on the PGA Tour, he finished 142nd on the money list.
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