Sports India

Jeev Milkha scaled a whopping 18 places marking upward movement in the international golf ranking chart for the second consecutive week.

Jeev, who finished tied-fourth with an excellent two-under 70 at the Smurfit European Open golf championship in Ireland yesterday, was placed 144th to become the only Indian golfer inside 150 ranks.

The current leader of the Asian Tour’s UBS Order of Merit, who recorded his ninth top-10 finish this year, however, narrowly missed out on the British Open berth.

It was just contrasting luck for his compatriots like Jyoti Randhawa, Arjun Atwal and Shiv Kapur, who were distantly placed below the Chandigarh player.

Randhawa’s fall continued this week as well as he slid five places to 159, Atwal nine places to 177 and Kapur four places to 176.