Want to follow Shubhankar by winning a European tour title this year: Joshi

A maiden Asian Tour title in his kitty, Panasonic Open India champion Khalin Joshi now wants to emulate fellow Indian Shubhankar Sharma by securing a European Tour card in the next two months.

Joshi carded a four-under 68 on the final day to notch up a one-stroke win, becoming the seventh Indian to win the Panasonic Open India in the last eight editions.

He has now trained his eyes on winning one of the European co-sanctioned events -- Hong Kong (Nov 22-25), Mauritius Open (Nov 29-Dec 2) and Joburg Open (Dec 7-10) -- to secure his card.

"I'm playing Jeev Milkha Singh invitational in Chandigarh next week, I will go home then for two weeks and then I have four big weeks coming up. I am going to go back work on my game a little bit and come back fresh for Hong Kong," Joshi told reporters at the press conference.

"So hopefully I can do what my friend Shubhankar did last year and try to get my card secured on the European tour. So that is the focus now," said the three-time winner on the PGTI, referring to Shubhankar's maiden European Tour title win at Joburg Open last year."