Lahiri posts career-best tied second on PGA Tour
Earns highest ever prize money cheque
Anirban Lahiri earned his career-
best ſ nish on the PGA Tour at
The Memorial Tournament in
Dublin, Ohio, as he claimed tied
second with a total score of
10-under-278
H
ere are some of the stats
relating to Anirban Lahiri’s
sensational performance at
The Memorial 2017:
It was Lahiri’s best ever ¿ nish on
the PGA Tour, his previous best was
tied third at the CIMB Classic 2016 in
Malaysia.
His best result on American soil,
previous best was tied ¿ fth at the PGA
Championship 2015 played at Whistling
Straits in Wisconsin.
Lahiri’s tied second at The Memorial
is among the three best ¿ nishes for
Indians on the PGA Tour, the others
being Arjun Atwal’s win at the Wyndham
Championship 2010 and his tied second
at the BellSouth Classic 2005.
Anirban picked up his highest ever
prize money cheque of US$ 765,600 at
the event worth US$ 8.7 million. His
previous highest prize money cheque
was from his victory at the Maybank
Malaysian Open 2015 (US$ 500,000).
His top-notch performance lifted him
25 spots from 90th to 65th place in the
Of¿ cial World Golf Ranking.
He skyrocketed from 92nd to 44th
position in the FedExCup Standings
thus locking up his PGA Tour card for
next season. He bagged 245 FedExCup
Points for his effort.
Anirban also strengthened his bid
for a berth at the Presidents Cup 2017
having moved up from 22nd to 15th
place in the rankings which determine
spots for the International Team.
It was his second top-10 and ¿ fth top-
25 ¿ nish of the current PGA Tour season.
His prize money earnings for the
current PGA Tour season stand at US$
1,550,074 placing him 40th in the
Money List. He has broken the US$ 1
million mark for the ¿ rst time on the
PGA Tour.
Lahiri so far has four top-10s and
eight top-25s in his PGA Tour career.
He now has three top-10s to his credit
in the year 2017. His previous two
top-10s this year came at the Maybank
Championship (tied seventh) and at
the Hero Indian Open (tied ¿ fth), both
events co-sanctioned by the European
Tour & Asian Tour.
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