Saptak Talwar’s single-minded, two-year-long chase was finally rewarded when he won the PGTI Order of Merit at the end of the DP World India Championship on Sunday.
At Delhi Golf Club, where he started playing golf, the 27-year-old wrote the next chapter of what promises to be an exciting career – he has secured a card on the more rewarding, more challenging and global DP World Tour.
“During the two events in the UAE, I was having some back spasms. There is also his mindset. He arrived at Delhi Golf Club with a healthy lead but always stayed in the present and never let his mind race ahead. His mother is a math professor at Delhi University, and it would have been easy for Talwar to resort to permutations and combinations after each round. “I must thank a whole ecosystem, really. My parents have been rock-solid in their support. “I played a couple of rounds with Luke Donald, and it was an experience. He didn’t have the best of tournaments, but his short game is still sublime. I know how he became the world No1, and I know that I must work a lot harder. “I don’t want to say I will win on the DPWT next year, but I want to be able to deal better with situations that I find myself in. I think I am a little better prepared for Europe, but if I have to compete against these guys and contend, I will have to work even more on my game, my physique, and myself.”
I went to the European Tour Performance Institute (ETPI) guys, and there is a Sikh gentleman with them (Poora Singh), who not only helped me, but also had a long chat and told me in no uncertain terms that I needed to put some pounds on and get stronger, or otherwise my career will be finished with injuries,” Talwar recalls. That entire team at HPT and DPW-PGTI has helped me even when I haven’t asked for it,” says Talwar. I have played the DGC thousands of times, but I still struggled with the rough they had this year,” says Talwar, who finished tied 55th in the tournament.
