Pranavi Urs has begun each of the last four seasons on the WGAI on a strong note. The 19-year-old Mysore golfer, who turned pro in 2020, has now won five times, twice as an amateur and three times as a professional.
Having done that once again with a win in the season opener of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour last week, she is now all set to take that momentum into the second event at the East Point Golf Club in Visakhapatnam. The prize purse for the second straight week will be Rs 10 lakhs.
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While Pranavi, then still an amateur, won for the first time on the Hero WPGT in the middle of the season in 2018, she finished runner-up in the season’s first event in each of the three years 2019, 2020 and 2021. She broke that jinx in 2022 as she began with a win. Interestingly, Pranavi won the second event of the season in both 2020 and 2021.
Having recovered from a wrist injury which forced her to take a back seat after the initial two events last year, Pranavi feels more confident.
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“I am no longer apprehensive about the wrist,” she said last week after the win in a play-off against Gaurika Bishnoi. Pranavi, who tried and failed to secure a Ladies European Tour card at the Qualifying School late last year, now wants to consolidate her game and form before making another attempt. “However I will try and play a few LET Access Series and hopefully some LET events in Europe later this year,” she said.
Among the challengers for Pranavi are Gaurika, Jahanvi Bakshi, Hitaashee Bakshi, Khushi Khanijau, Lakhmehar Pardesi, amateur Sneha Singh, Ridhima Dilawari and Seher Atwal.
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