PRASHANTH Avani

Date of Birth: 7 Oct 2006

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.70/5'7''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
Additional Information
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Golf	Women's Individual
	Women's Team IND India

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Individual Round 1 #1	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Team Round 1 #1	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Individual Round 2 #2	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Team Round 2 #2	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Individual Round 3 #3	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Team Round 3 #3	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Individual Round 4 #4	Finished
	West Lake International Golf Course	Women's Team Round 4 #4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Ladies European Tour
9	Women's Stroke Play	2023	Vipingo, KEN
12	Women's Stroke Play	2022	Gurgaon, IND
39	Women's Stroke Play	2023	Berlin, GER
65	Women's Stroke Play	2022	Berlin, GER
120	Women's Stroke Play	2023	Hilversum, NED

Watching television, playing football. (golfdigest, 29 Mar 2022)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Languages spoken:

Karnataka [India]

Laurence Brotheridge [personal], from 2018

Right (Instagram profile, 06 Feb 2023)

She took up golf at age four, and began competing at around age seven. (businesstoday, 02 Dec 2022; golfdigest, 29 Mar 2022; essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

She asked her father and grandfather to take her to a golf course. "We were living in Gurgaon [India] at the time and my dad wanted to take my grandpa to learn about the sport. My dad and my grandpa went around the course, then three, four hours later, I was still on the range, hitting balls. And this convinced both of them that I was born to play the sport." (timesofindia, 29 Dec 2022; golfdigest, 29 Mar 2022; essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

To win gold at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (timesofindia, 29 Dec 2022)

She trains at Karnataka Golf Association [KGA] in Bengaluru, India. "I wake up around 06:30 and I go for practice at KGA from 07:00 to maybe 11:30. I'll go practise for two and a half hours and then go on the course and do everything and then come back home at 15:00. Then, I go to the gym at 18:00. So 18:00 to 19:30 is when I work out." (golfdigest, 29 Mar 2022; essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

Her performance at the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur in the United States of America. "I finished 21st. This may not look so good, but I was playing against the world's best amateurs. Many with a higher rank didn't even make the top 30 cut on the second day. It showed us that it was possible to compete with the best." (timesofindia, 29 Dec 2022)

Indian golfers Aditi Ashok and Anirban Lahiri, US golfers Nelly Korda and Tiger Woods. (golfdigest, 29 Mar 2022; essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

Her first coach Nathan, coach Laurence Brotheridge, and her parents. (essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

Additional Information

General
BECOMING A PRO
In June 2023 she announced her decision to turn professional. "I wanted to compete at the Olympics since I was pretty young. Now that I am on the [2022] Asian Games team, the Olympics looks a lot more realistic, and I see the only way to get there is for me to turn pro and get the world rankings up. I should be able to make it if I just play the way I am playing now." (news9live, 14 Jun 2023)

BENEFITS OF LOCKDOWN
In 2020 she used the break from competition as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to build up her strength and develop her driving game. "From 2020 to 2022, I've gained about 35 to 40 yards of distance [on her drive], so even the lockdown did have very good parts. I definitely say that I picked up a lot of swing speed then, because my dad keeps all the stats - it's always pushed me to work harder, because then I compare myself against the best in the world. It was kind of my goal to come out of lockdown as a completely changed and a transformed player." (abbeyfealegolfclub, 30 Apr 2022; essentiallysports, 02 Apr 2022)

Milestones

She became the first golfer representing India to win the Queen Sirikit Cup individual title by claiming victory at the 2023 edition of the tournament in Manila, Philippines. (news9live, 14 Jun 2023; queensirikitcup, 27 May 2022)

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event