Aditi Ashok

Aditi Ashok (born 29 March 1998) is an Indian professional golfer. She plays on the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour. She made her Olympic Games debut at the 2016 Olympics. She also competed in the 2020 Olympics, where she narrowly missed the podium with a fourth-place finish.

Early life and amateur career In 1998, Aditi was born in Bangalore, India to Ashok Gudlamani and Maheshwari. When she started playing golf at the age of 5, there were only three golf courses in Bangalore. When she expressed an interest, her parents took her to the Karnataka Golf Association driving range. She won the 2015 Ladies British Amateur Stroke Play Championship. She was educated at The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore and graduated in 2016.

Her father, Ashok, was her caddie in the 2016 Olympics; while her mother Maheshwari Ashok was her caddie for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Professional career In January 2016, she turned pro. This win also made her the youngest winner of a Q School for an international tour. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Aditi was the youngest participant among all golfers. She finished in 41st place.

Aditi won the 2016 Hero Women's Indian Open with a score of 3-under-par 213, and in the process became the first Indian to win a Ladies European Tour title. In a country normally focused on cricket, her win garnered outsized attention for the sport of golf. Her win made the front page of the country's largest English-language newspaper, the Times of India and she was featured nationally on television. She picked up a second win two weeks later at the Qatar Ladies Open and finished the season second on the Order of Merit. She won the Rookie of the Year award. She also gained a LPGA Tour card for 2017 via the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.

In 2017, Aditi became the second LPGA player from India after Simi Mehra and finished eighth in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year standings.

In 2018, she made 17 cuts at 24 events, with two top-10 finishes. She recorded a career-best T-6 result at the Volunteers of America LPGA Texas Classic and tied her career-low score of 64 at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. She ended the year with the second-lowest putting average on the LPGA.

In 2019, Aditi made 13 cut out of 22 LPGA Tour events, with best season finish of T13 at CP Women's Open. She ended the year with back-to-back second-place finishes on the Ladies European Tour.

In 2021, Aditi represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's individual stroke play event, in which she was ranked 200th in the world. Aditi finished fourth with a score of 269 and 15-under par, two shots behind gold medal winner Nelly Korda of the United States. After 54 holes, she was in the silver medal position, and was in medal contention for most of the fourth round.

Amateur wins 2011 USHA Karnataka Junior, Southern India Junior, Faldo Series Asia - India, East India Tolly Ladies, All India Championship 2012 USHA Delhi Ladies, USHA Army Championship, All India Junior 2013 Asia Pacific Junior Championship 2014 Eastern India Ladies Amateur, USHA IGU All India Ladies & Girls Championship 2015 Army Ladies & Junior Championship, St Rule Trophy, Southern India Ladies & Junior Girls Championship, Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Thailand Amateur Open

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Professional wins (7) Ladies European Tour wins (5)

Other wins (2) 2011 Hero Professional Tour Leg 1, Hero Professional Tour Leg 3 (both as an amateur)

Team appearances Espirito Santo Trophy (representing India): 2012, 2014