Future of Indian golf is bright, says Jeev Milkha Singh

Ace golfer Jeev Milkha Singh Sunday said Indian golf is headed towards a bright future but stressed the need to have public courses readily available to the masses.

"The future of Indian golf is bright. It's great to see these young kids coming up, they have got a good mind, they are strong enough mentally to take on the world and play with best players," Jeev said on the sidelines of Habitat India charity golf tournament, organised to raise funds for widows of farmers in Maharashtra.

"And Shubhakar (Sharma), Anirban (Lahiri) ,Chirag (Kumar) and Shiv (Kapur) have proven it. I can keep naming players who have done it and in the future we are going to see a lot more (golfers) coming through who are going to make the country proud," he added.

Last year saw six professional wins for the country's golfers. Four of them were on the Asian Tour and two of them co-sanctioned by Europe and another by Japan.

"I feel the performance by the Indian professional golfers is awesome. That's the word I would use. Shiv won three times last year, Gaganjeet (Bhullar) won, Anirban is doing well in PGTI, Shubhankar won two times and he won the Asian Order of Merit and Khalin Joshi won," he stressed.

Jeev, who was the first Indian golfer to win four European titles, is optimistic that an Indian can win a Major this year if all goes right.

"The Indian players have the mindset to win a Major championship. If these guys go out and play a Major championship and if things click, they can win the championship."