Notice the strapping on Shat Mishra’s shin. It is meant to shield the stress fracture that he’s been carrying for a while.
The young golfer, who ushered in his 17th birthday late last month, won the latest of his laurels on the amateur circuit battling pain at Greater Noida’s Jaypee Greens, and also the week before at the Delhi Golf Club.
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Teeing off against medical advice may defy common sense, but has paid dividend on the golf course. With four wins in five starts, Shat is the No. 2 Indian amateur at 296 as per the latest WAGR rankings.
Where Shat, which means century, finds himself stems from the early days when the Armyman’s son visited the golf course like any inquisitive child.
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Where the difference lay was his curiosity into the technicalities of golf and how to get better. This was as early as those days when he teed off in Category E.
The notes, mental and jottings which he refers to even now, while walking the course tracking his elder brother’s progress kept stoking the quest for knowledge, and improving to the extent that on his 17th birthday, which was on June 26, Shat could call himself is the country’s No 2 amateur courtesy the recent prolific run.
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Four wins in five starts, a whole new world of opportunities await Shat, the Junior Players at TPC Sawgrass is an example, but our man refuses to get ahead of himself.
Photo Credit: Shat Mishra
