Jeev Milkha Singh

Jeev Milkha Singh Rathore
Jeev Milkha Singh Rathore
	Singh at the 2009 Omega European Masters
Personal information
Born	15 December 1971
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Sporting nationality	India
Residence	Chandigarh, India
Spouse	Sakshi (m. 2008)
Children	1
Career
College	Abilene Christian University
Turned professional	1993
Current tour(s)	European Senior Tour; Asian Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour; European Tour; Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins	20
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	4
Japan Golf Tour	4
Asian Tour	6
Other	7
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T25: 2008
PGA Championship	T9: 2008
U.S. Open	T36: 2007
The Open Championship	T69: 2012
Achievements and awards
Arjuna Award
Arjuna Award	1999
Asian Tour; Order of Merit winner	2006, 2008
Asian Tour; Players' Player of the Year	2006, 2008
Padma Shri	2007

Jeev Milkha Singh Rathore (born 15 December 1971) is an Indian professional golfer who became the first player from India to join the European Tour in 1998. He has won four events on the European Tour, becoming the most successful Indian on tour. He was the first Indian golfer to break into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking in October 2006. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2007. He is also the recipient of 1999 Arjuna Award.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Singh was born on 15 December 1971^[1] to Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh and Nirmal Saini, former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team.^[4] Singh attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and later went to Abilene Christian University in the United States, obtaining a degree in business and international studies^[5] in 1996.^[6]

Singh won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1993 in addition to a number of amateur tournaments in the U.S.

Professional career

Singh turned professional in 1993 and his first professional win was at the 1993 Southern Oklahoma State Open, a minor local event. He played mainly in Asia, where he was a regular winner in the mid-1990s. In 1997 he finished seventh at the European Tour qualifying school, and joined the tour the following year.

He became the third golfer to receive Arjuna Award in 1999.^[7]

His best season in Europe until 2006 was in 1999, when he came 50th on the Order of Merit. He struggled with injury in the early years of the new millennium. In April 2006 he won the Volvo China Open, becoming the second Indian player to win on the European Tour after Arjun Atwal. He also won the season ending Volvo Masters, which elevated him to a final position of 16th on the Order of Merit. He finished 2006 as the winner of the Asian Tour Order of Merit and capped his season with a pair of back to back wins in Japan to become the first Indian to make the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking.^[8] In 2007 he became the first Indian golfer to participate in the Masters Tournament.^[9] In August 2008, Singh achieved the highest ranking for an Indian in any major event at the 2008 PGA Championship in Oakland Hills, finishing at T9, making him arguably India's best golfer ever.

Singh finished the 2008 European Tour season ranked 12th on the Order of Merit, and after winning the Barclays Singapore Open won his second Order of Merit title on the Asian Tour.

In 2009, Singh finished the WGC-CA Championship in fourth place, after leading round one.

Singh played on the Nationwide Tour in 2003. He played on the PGA Tour from 2007 to 2010, where his best finish was 4th place at the 2009 WGC-CA Championship.

Singh received India's fourth highest civil honour, the Padma Shri, in 2007.^[10]

On 15 July 2012, Singh beat Francesco Molinari in a sudden-death playoff to win the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, the week before the 2012 Open Championship.^[11] The win secured Singh a spot in the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club as a result of finishing as the highest non-qualifier at the event. The win was also Singh's fourth career victory on the European Tour and moved him ahead of Arjun Atwal, making him the most successful Indian golfer in European Tour history.

Personal life

Singh lives in Chandigarh with wife Kudrat and their son.^[1]

Amateur wins

1993 NCAA Division II Individual Championship

Professional wins (20)

European Tour wins (4)

Legend
Tour Championships (1)
Other European Tour (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	16 Apr 2006	Volvo China Open¹	72-69-67-70=278	−10	1 stroke	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño
2	29 Oct 2006	Volvo Masters	71-71-68-72=282	−2	1 stroke	Luke Donald, Sergio García, Pádraig Harrington
3	8 Jun 2008	Bank Austria GolfOpen	64-63-71=198*	−15	1 stroke	Simon Wakefield
4	15 Jul 2012	Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open	66-70-68-67=271	−17	Playoff	Francesco Molinari

*Note: The 2008 Bank Austria GolfOpen was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
¹Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

European Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2008	Ballantine's Championship	Graeme McDowell	Lost to birdie on third extra hole
2	2012	Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open	Francesco Molinari	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Japan Golf Tour wins (4)

Legend
Japan majors (2)
Other Japan Golf Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	26 Nov 2006	Casio World Open	66-69-69-68=272	−16	2 strokes	David Smail
2	3 Dec 2006	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup	67-65-67-70=269	−11	1 stroke	Nobuhiro Masuda
3	27 Jul 2008	Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup	67-74-68-66=275	−13	2 strokes	Sushi Ishigaki
4	7 Dec 2008	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup (2)	64-70-68-66=268	−12	2 strokes	Brendan Jones, David Smail, Taichi Teshima

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1999	Kirin Open	K. J. Choi	Lost to par on first extra hole

Asian Tour wins (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	17 Dec 1995	Philippine Classic	65-73-72-73=283	−5	1 stroke	Preecha Senaprom
2	21 Jan 1996 (1995 season)	Asian Matchplay Championship	3 and 1			Boonchu Ruangkit
3	1 Sep 1996	Philip Morris Asian Cup	66-66-65-65=262	−26	6 strokes	Kang Wook-soon
4	17 Oct 1999	Lexus International	69-69-65-72=275	−13	Playoff	Taimur Hussain, Zaw Moe
5	16 Apr 2006	Volvo China Open¹	72-69-67-70=278	−10	1 stroke	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño
6	16 Nov 2008	Barclays Singapore Open	73-68-67-69=277	−7	1 stroke	Ernie Els, Pádraig Harrington

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Asian Tour playoff record (1–3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1997	Ericsson Asia-Pacific Masters	Darren Cole	Lost to par on first extra hole
2	1998	Thailand Open	James Kingston	Lost to par on first extra hole
3	1999	Lexus International	Taimur Hussain, Zaw Moe	Won with birdie on third extra hole Hussain eliminated by par on first hole
4	2008	Ballantine's Championship	Graeme McDowell	Lost to birdie on third extra hole

Korean Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	11 Sep 1994	Shinhan Donghae Open	73-71-66-73=283	−5	4 strokes	Tom Pernice Jr.

Korean Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2008	Ballantine's Championship	Graeme McDowell	Lost to birdie on third extra hole

Other wins (6)

1993 (2) Southern Oklahoma State Open, Bukit Kiara Golf Championship (Malaysia)
1994 (1) Northern Indian Open
1995 (3) Thailand PGA Championship, Mahindra BPGC Open (India), Toyota Crown Open (Thailand)

Results in major championships

Singh at the 2008 Bank Austria GolfOpen

Tournament	2002	2006	2007	2008	2009	2012	2016
Masters Tournament			T37	T25	CUT
U.S. Open	T62	T59	T36		CUT		CUT
The Open Championship			CUT			T69
PGA Championship			CUT	T9	T67	CUT

Top 10

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	1	3	2
U.S. Open	0	0	5	3
The Open Championship	0	0	2	1
PGA Championship	1	1	4	2
Totals	1	2	14	8

Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (2002 U.S. Open – 2007 U.S. Open)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2009
The Players Championship	T64

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Match Play	R64		R64	R16
Championship	T28	T26	4
Invitational	T51		T64			T67
Champions			T33		T23	T46

Top 10

Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

European Tour professional career summary

Year	Starts	Cuts Made	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10	Top 25	Earnings (€)	Money list rank
1994	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a¹
1995	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4,200	n/a¹
1996	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6,944	n/a¹
1997	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8,689	n/a¹
1998	22	11	0	0	0	1	5	83,823	104
1999	24	15	0	1	1	2	8	222,783	50
2000	13	5	0	0	0	2	3	68,199	145
2001	17	10	0	0	0	2	4	174,011	108
2002	20	8	0	0	0	1	2	83,347	152
2003	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1,773	n/a¹
2004	5	3	0	0	0	1	1	28,817	n/a¹
2005	7	5	0	0	0	1	2	42,845	n/a¹
2006	17	11	2	0	0	4	8	1,173,177	16
2007	31	26	0	0	1	1	9	717,790	46
2008	26	20	1	2	0	8	15	1,218,209	12
2009	22	17	0	0	0	3	8	847,844	34
2010	15	10	0	0	0	2	7	393,449	74
2011	30	17	0	0	0	2	8	329,262	94
2012	25	19	1	0	0	2	6	926,062	32
2013	23	6	0	0	0	1	5	156,643	133
Total*	304	190	4	3	2	33	91	6,487,987	62

¹ Not a full Tour member in these years

As of 2013 season

Team appearances

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing India): 1988, 1992

Professional

Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing India): 1996, 1999
Dynasty Cup (representing Asia): 2003 (winners)
Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 (winners)
World Cup (representing India): 2008, 2009
EurAsia Cup (representing Asia): 2016 (non-playing captain)

References

1 2 3 "Jeev Milkha Singh profile". Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
↑ "LIST OF ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS - Football | Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports". yas.nic.in. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
↑ "List of Arjuna Awardees (1961–2018)" (PDF). Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (India). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
↑ "Jeev Milkha Singh," the south-asian.com June 2002. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
↑ "Carry on, Jeev," The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), 4 November 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
↑ "Wildcats lead way as LSC honors all-time top performers," Archived 29 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine ACU Today, Summer 2007, p.32. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
↑ "Gaganjeet Bhullar becomes seventh golfer to receive Arjuna". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ Punjab Golf Association confers award on Jeev Milkha Singh, zeenews.com, 31 December 2006.
↑ "Record 34 European Tour Members Invited to Augusta". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
↑ "Vikram Seth, Jeev Milkha Singh win Padma Shri". The Times of India. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
↑ "Phil Mickelson finishes with 74". ESPN Golf. 15 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

External links

Official website
Jeev Milkha Singh at the Asian Tour official site
Jeev Milkha Singh at the European Tour official site
Jeev Milkha Singh at the PGA Tour official site
Jeev Milkha Singh at the Japan Golf Tour official site
Jeev Milkha Singh at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

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[Wife-1] 1 2 3 "Jeev Milkha Singh profile". Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[2] "LIST OF ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS - Football | Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports". yas.nic.in. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007.

[3] "List of Arjuna Awardees (1961–2018)" (PDF). Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (India). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

[soutasian-4] "Jeev Milkha Singh," the south-asian.com June 2002. Retrieved 15 March 2009.

[calcutta-5] "Carry on, Jeev," The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), 4 November 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2008.

[acuguide-6] "Wildcats lead way as LSC honors all-time top performers," Archived 29 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine ACU Today, Summer 2007, p.32. Retrieved 22 September 2008.

[autogenerated1-7] "Gaganjeet Bhullar becomes seventh golfer to receive Arjuna". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

[8] Punjab Golf Association confers award on Jeev Milkha Singh, zeenews.com, 31 December 2006.

[9] "Record 34 European Tour Members Invited to Augusta". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.

[10] "Vikram Seth, Jeev Milkha Singh win Padma Shri". The Times of India. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[11] "Phil Mickelson finishes with 74". ESPN Golf. 15 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports
1950s	Balbir Singh Sr. (1957) K. D. Singh (1958) Mihir Sen (1959) Milkha Singh (1959)
1960s	Vijay Hazare (1960) Jasu Patel (1960) Arati Saha (1960) Nari Contractor (1962) Sonam Gyatso (1962) Ramanathan Krishnan (1962) Gostha Pal (1962) Polly Umrigar (1962) Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963) M. J. Gopalan (1964) Nawang Gombu (1964) Charanjit Singh (1964) H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965) Avtar Singh Cheema (1965) D. B. Deodhar (1965) Phu Dorjee (1965) Wilson Jones (1965) Verghese Kurien (1965) Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965) Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965) Sonam Wangyal (1965) Kishan Lal (1966) Narendra Kumar (1965) Shankar Lakshman (1967) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967) Gurdial Singh (1967) Prithipal Singh (1967) Chandu Borde (1969)
1970s	Bishan Singh Bedi (1970) Moin-ul-Haq (1970) E. A. S. Prasanna (1970) Leslie Claudius (1971) Sailen Manna (1971) Ghaus Mohammad (1971) Chandgi Ram (1971) Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971) Gundappa Viswanath (1971) Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972) B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972) Ajit Wadekar (1972) Farokh Engineer (1973) Pankaj Roy (1975) Roshan Lal Anand (1976) Meena Shah (1977)
1980s	Vasudevan Baskaran (1981) Syed Kirmani (1982) Kapil Dev (1982) Prakash Padukone (1982) Vijay Amritraj (1983) Bahadur Singh Chouhan (1983) Guru Hanuman (1983) Eliza Nelson (1983) Chand Ram (1983) Kaur Singh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Satpal Singh (1983) M. D. Valsamma (1983) Geeta Zutshi (1983) Charles Borromeo (1984) Phu Dorjee (1984) Chuni Goswami (1984) D. K. Khullar (1984) Bachendri Pal (1984) Omprakesh Agrawal (1985) P. T. Usha (1985) Anupama Gokhale (1986) Swaroop Kishen (1986) Geet Sethi (1986) Mohammad Shahid (1986) Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987) Dilip Vengsarkar (1987) Viswanathan Anand (1988) Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)
1990s	Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990) P. K. Banerjee (1990) Premchand Degra (1990) Gulshan Rai (1990) Jaman Lal Sharma (1990) Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990) Selma D'Silva (1991) Aspy Adajania (1992) Ajit Pal Singh (1992) Sriram Singh (1992) Hakam Singh (1992) Shiny Abraham (1998) Ramesh Krishnan (1998) Lila Ram (1998) Pargat Singh (1998) Karnam Malleswari (1999) Sachin Tendulkar (1999)
2000s	Santosh Yadav (2000) Mahesh Bhupathi (2001) Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001) Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001) Leander Paes (2001) Dhanraj Pillay (2001) Sunita Rani (2001) Diana Edulji (2002) Jaspal Rana (2002) Mukesh Kumar (2003) Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003) Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003) Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003) K. M. Beenamol (2004) Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004) Rahul Dravid (2004) Sourav Ganguly (2004) Anju Bobby George (2004) S. P. Nimbalkar (2004) Dilip Tirkey (2004) Pullela Gopichand (2005) Anil Kumble (2005) Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005) Rachel Thomas (2005) Madhumita Bisht (2006) Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006) Mary Kom (2006) Sania Mirza (2006) Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006) Koneru Humpy (2007) Jeev Milkha Singh (2007) Bhaichung Bhutia (2008) Bula Choudhury (2008) Pankaj Advani (2009) MS Dhoni (2009) Balbir Singh Kullar (2009) Harbhajan Singh (2009)
2010s	Ramakant Achrekar (2010) Narain Karthikeyan (2010) Saina Nehwal (2010) Virender Sehwag (2010) Vijender Singh (2010) Ignace Tirkey (2010) Kunjarani Devi (2011) Sushil Kumar (2011) VVS Laxman (2011) Shital Mahajan (2011) Gagan Narang (2011) Krishna Poonia (2011) Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011) S. M. Arif (2012) Ravi Chaturvedi (2012) Jhulan Goswami (2012) Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012) Devendra Jhajharia (2012) Limba Ram (2012) Prabhakar Vaidya (2012) Premlata Agrawal (2013) Yogeshwar Dutt (2013) Vijay Kumar (2013) Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013) Dingko Singh (2013) Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013) Anjum Chopra (2014) Sunil Dabas (2014) Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014) Dipika Pallikal (2014) H. Boniface Prabhu (2014) Yuvraj Singh (2014) Mamta Sodha (2014) Saba Anjum Karim (2015) Mithali Raj (2015) P. V. Sindhu (2015) Sardara Singh (2015) Arunima Sinha (2015) Sushil Doshi (2016) Deepika Kumari (2016) Vikas Gowda (2017) Dipa Karmakar (2017) Virat Kohli (2017) Deepa Malik (2017) Sakshi Malik (2017) Shekhar Naik (2017) P. R. Sreejesh (2017) Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018) Somdev Devvarman (2018) Murlikant Petkar (2018) Srikanth Kidambi (2018) Sunil Chhetri (2019) Harika Dronavalli (2019) Gautam Gambhir (2019) Sharath Kamal (2019) Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019) Bajrang Punia (2019) Prashanti Singh (2019) Ajay Thakur (2019)
2020s	Oinam Bembem Devi (2020) M. P. Ganesh (2020) Zaheer Khan (2020) Jitu Rai (2020) Tarundeep Rai (2020) Rani Rampal (2020) Anitha Pauldurai (2021) Anshu Jamsenpa (2021) Mouma Das (2021) Sudha Singh (2021) Virender Singh (2021) K. Y. Venkatesh (2021) Sumit Antil (2022) Pramod Bhagat (2022) Neeraj Chopra (2022) Sankara Narayana Menon Chundayil (2022) Faisal Ali Dar (2022) Vandana Katariya (2022) Avani Lekhara (2022) Brahmanand Sankhwalkar (2022) S. R. D. Prasad (2023) K. Shanathoiba Sharma (2023) Gurcharan Singh (2023)