A year after meeting Tiger, Indian golfer on the rise

India’s Anirban Lahiri holds the trophy after winning the Hero Indian Open Golf at the Delhi Golf Club in New Delhi, India.

Lahiri and Shiv Kapur, who played college golf at Purdue, were asked to play a three-hole skins game at the end of an exhibition at Delhi Golf Club.

Lahiri started playing golf about the time Woods won his first Masters, and Woods became a golfing hero.

Lahiri will be at Doral next week for his first World Golf Championship in America.

As much attention as Woods brought to India last year in a paid exhibition with the head of Hero Motor, players like Lahiri, Singh and Atwal can have a profound effect on a golfing nation still in its infancy.

Lahiri remembers Atwal winning the Indian Open when it was part of the Asian Tour.

This will take time, though Lahiri has a chance to become the face of golf in his country.

He speaks English, Hindi and Bengali, and then he learned Punjabi because most of the amateur golf he played was in that region of India.

Along with getting in World Golf Championships and the Masters, Lahiri only needs to stay in the top 60 for the next three months to qualify for the U.S.