Smriti Mehra Player of the Year‘ at the Hero-WGAI Awards
Smriti Mehra, the most successful golfer on the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour in 2011-12, was named the ‘player of the year‘ at the Hero-WGAI awards function on April 11. Smriti took part in all the 15 events and won seven of them.
The awards: Player of the year: Smriti Mehra; Rookie of the year:Ankita Tiwana; Putter of the year: Nalini Singh Siwach.
Amateur winners: Aditi Ashok (third leg) and Vani Kapoor (fifth leg).
About Smriti :
- Smriti “Simi” Mehra (born 21 May 1972) is the first woman from India to become a member of the world’s leading golf tour for women, the U.S. based LPGA Tour.
- She was born in Kolkata and attended University of Calcutta before turning professional in 1994.
- Mehra won once on the second tier Futures Tour in 1996 to win promotion to the main LPGA Tour, which she played from 1997–1999, and from 2001-2004.
- She underwent shoulder surgery in 2005 and played on the Futures Tour in 2006 in the hope of regaining her place at the top level.
- In October 2005, Mehra played LPGA Tour golfers Heather Daly-Donofrio, Hilary Lunke and Celeste Troche in the first Women’s Professional Skins Game in India to demonstrate top level women’s golf in her home country.
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