New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): Olympians Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar will lead India’s golf contingent on the Asian Games 2026, set to be held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, as per Olympics.com on Sunday.
The six-member squad contains three males and three ladies, with choices made primarily based on world rankings.
Yuvraj Sandhu, presently ranked 447th within the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR), will spearhead the lads’s crew, joined by Veer Ahlawat (549th) and Saptak Talwar (569th). On the ladies’s aspect, Aditi Ashok (one hundred and thirty fifth) will captain the squad, alongside Diksha Dagar (221st) and Pranavi Urs (270th).
The golf occasions on the Asian Games 2026 might be contested from September 30 to October 3 on the Kasugai Country Club East Course, that includes 4 medal occasions: males’s and girls’s particular person and crew competitions.
Aditi Ashok, a five-time Ladies European Tour (LET) winner and three-time Olympian, narrowly missed a podium end at Tokyo 2020, ending fourth. She additionally secured India’s first-ever ladies’s golf medal on the Asian Games with a silver at Hangzhou 2023.
Diksha Dagar, a two-time Olympian and Deaflympics champion, returns to the continental stage after ending twenty second at Jakarta 2018 and boasts two LET titles. Pranavi Urs represented India on the final Asian Games, ending thirteenth within the ladies’s discipline.
Yuvraj Sandhu enters the match on the again of a dominant 2025 season on the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), claiming a document seven titles.
India has a complete of seven golf medals on the Asian Games, together with three gold and 4 silver. The nation’s first gold medals got here on the 1982 New Delhi Games, with Lakshman Singh profitable the lads’s particular person crown and the crew securing gold. Shiv Kapur added particular person gold at Busan 2002, whereas the lads’s groups completed with silver at Doha 2006 and Guangzhou 2010. Aditi Ashok claimed the most recent medal at Hangzhou 2023.
Asian Games 2026: India golf squad
Men: Yuvraj Sandhu, Veer Ahlawat, Saptak Talwar
Women: Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs. (ANI)