Golf Queens- Smriti Mehra
Along with Aditi Ashok, there are few promising women golfers in India who have impressed with their performance on the greens
is the first woman from India to become a member of the world’s leading golf tour for women, the US-based LPGA Tour. She is recognised as a pioneer and a pillar for women’s golf in India.’ She was born in Kolkata and attended the 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. In 2012, Mehra was named the ‘Player of the Year’ at the Hero-WGAI awards function.
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