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Ashok Kumar (golfer)

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Ashok Kumar
Personal information
Born (1983-07-20) 20 July 1983 (age 41)
India
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sporting nationality India
ResidenceDelhi, India
Career
Turned professional2002
Current tour(s)Professional Golf Tour of India
Professional wins18
Achievements and awards
PGA of India Tour
Order of Merit winner
1999, 2001, 2002, 2003–04
Professional Golf Tour of India
Order of Merit winner
2006–07, 2010

Ashok Kumar (born 20 July 1983) is a professional golfer from India, currently playing on the Professional Golf Tour of India, where he was the 2003/04 and the 2006/07 Order of Merit winner.

In 2004, he won the Hero Honda Golf Tour Order of Merit for the 2003/04 season. He won it again in 2006/07 and in 2010 under the name of the PGTI after recording 5 wins in 8 events played, where he finished in the top-10 in all 8 of them.

Kumar played in 12 events in 2008, but did not record a win, finishing in the top-10 8 times.

Kumar added another win in 2009 in April at the All India Match Play Championship.

Professional wins (18)

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Professional Golf Tour of India wins (13)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 3 Feb 2007 IndianOil XtraPremium Masters −14 (68-67-71-68=274) 6 strokes India Vikrant Chopra, India Shamim Khan
2 25 Feb 2007 Solaris Global Green Open −14 (64-70-68-64=266) 1 stroke India Shiv Chawrasia
3 17 Mar 2007 SRF All India Matchplay Championship 4 and 3 India S. Madaiah
4 6 May 2007 CG Open −19 (67-64-64-66=261) 7 strokes India Gaganjeet Bhullar
5 17 Jun 2007 Color Plus Open −18 (66-68-67-69=270) 2 strokes India Gaganjeet Bhullar
6 4 Apr 2009 SRF All India Matchplay Championship (2) 5 and 4 India Rahul Ganapathy
7 19 Dec 2009 PGTI Tour Championship −15 (65-69-70-69=273) 1 stroke India Shamim Khan
8 19 Sep 2010 DLF Masters −16 (70-65-65=200) 8 strokes India Gaganjeet Bhullar
9 9 Oct 2010 Global Green Bangalore Open −10 (70-71-67-70=278) 3 strokes India Himmat Rai
10 21 Nov 2010 Tata Open −16 (59-65-66-70=260) 6 strokes India Vijay Kumar
11 27 Nov 2010 DDA Open Golf Championship −20 (63-68-67-62=260) 10 strokes India Sujjan Singh
12 5 Dec 2015 CG Open (2) −12 (69-69-62-68=268) Playoff India M. Dharma
13 7 Oct 2016 PGTI Masters −17 (68-67-70-66=271) Playoff India Ajeetesh Sandhu

Hero Honda Golf Tour wins (3)

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  • 2004 The Hindu Open, Hero Honda Open, PGAI-TSM Open

Other wins (2)

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  • 1999 Ericsson International Golf Invitation Tournament
  • 2008 BILT Open Pro-Am

Team appearances

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Amateur

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