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Indian Village Boy, 11, Seeks Glory On World Golf Stage


Champ Kind
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83eaad89e24b7dae1b87676b0fd148f61a180c08.jpgIn 11-year-old Shubham Jaglan's poor Indian village surrounded by sugar cane fields, few had ever heard of golf until recently let alone know someone playing the sport internationally. Hardly anybody in my family had heard about golf," said Jaglan, whose father earned 10,000 rupees ($150) a month from farming a small plot of land. Jaglan's passion for what remains a rich man's sport in India started when a US-based golfing enthusiast opened a coaching clinic in his hamlet, not far from the capital New Delhi.

 

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