Lahiri looking to bounce back after disappointing season on PGA Tour

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri will look to address the self-confessed shortcomings in his game as he launches the new PGA Tour campaign with a debut appearance at the Safeway Open starting Thursday.

The 31-year-old Lahiri was let down by his "short game" and "lapse of concentration" as he finished 99th in the recently-concluded FedExCup points standings following four top-10s. He had finished 51st on the rankings in the previous 2016-17 PGA TOUR season.

"It was a disappointing year," said Lahiri. "I think I played decent in the summer, had top-10s at the Travelers and Akron but in the last few events, I had three missed cuts and one average finish.

"At the end of the season, you want to play your best golf but I played my worst golf. The opposite happened last year when I got to Chicago (BMW Championship) and finished 51st on the FedExCup standings. The goal was also to win last season but I haven't got myself into contention as consistently as I would have liked."
"There were too many rounds where I lost momentum. I would get to one or two-under after five or six holes but didn't have stretches where those two-under became five-under. I didn't build on those good starts."
"That's what I'm focusing on. The rest of the work continues trying to get stronger and faster."
Lahiri, who will represent India in the ISPS HANDA Melbourne World Cup of Golf with Shubhankar Sharma in Australia next month, also revealed that he has gone vegetarian in the interim, saying he wanted to "feel better and feel the energy levels go up."