{"id":235,"date":"2021-08-16T21:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=138444"},"modified":"2021-08-16T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:51:32","slug":"aditi-ashok-books-her-spot-for-the-womens-british-open-after-finishing-second-in-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/aditi-ashok-books-her-spot-for-the-womens-british-open-after-finishing-second-in-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Aditi Ashok books her spot for the Women\u2019s British Open after finishing second in qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indian golfer Aditi Ashok has qualified for the AIG Women\u2019s British Open at Panmure Golf Club after an outstanding two-under 68 to secure a second-place finish at the 18-hole qualifiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Had a nice round of Final qualifying at Panmure today. Excited to play <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIGWomensOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AIGWomensOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carnoustiegolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@carnoustiegolf<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aditi Ashok (@aditigolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aditigolf\/status\/1427285583622197251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 23-year-old had the entire country captivated as she finished an agonising fourth at the Tokyo Olympics. Aditi was ranked at world number 200 before entering the Olympic games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Open appearance extends the young golfer\u2019s record of starts at Majors to 19. Her last appearance was Amundi Evian Championship last month.<\/p>\n<p>No other Indian, man or woman have played as many Majors as Aditi Ashok who now has 4 to her name in this season.<\/p>\n<p>Aditi was one-over after 12 holes and did well to get to 2-under and finish sole second while ending one shot behind the American Lindsey Weaver (67) while Kirsten Rugeley, Nicole Larsen Broch, Magdalena Simmermacher and Cheng Ssu Chia were Tied for 3rd at 1-under.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aditi\u2019s best Major finish was the T-22 at the Open at Royal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lytham and St. Annes back in the year 2018.\u00a0 This will be her fifth arrival at the Women\u2019s Open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Panmure is the 16th oldest golf club in the world. The club\u2019s existence goes back to 1845 that has hosted the Open qualifiers on many occasions in the past. The course is a big test and has very challenging and undulating greens for the Indian golfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditi Ashok has qualified for the AIG Women\u2019s British Open at Panmure finishing in second at the qualifiers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2000,1494,2557,2564],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-aditi-ashok","tag-golf","tag-indian-golfer","tag-world-golf"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}