13 July, 2016: Janshjeev Singh, who recently finished third at the North Zone Sub-Junior and Feeder Tour event in Tarudhan Valley Golf Course in Haryana, has just one goal. He wants to be a “great golfer like Jeev Milkha Singh some day.
”Janshjeev is named after iconic golfer Jeev Milkha Singh. Janshjeev’s father, Gurwinder Singh, known to all as Ambarsaria, not only caddied for Jeev in India but accompanied him when he played events on the Asian Tour.
There is quite a hilarious story of him driving a golf cart into one of the trees during an Asian Tour Pro-Am tournament when he pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes.
When an under-graduate at DAV College, Sector-10, Chandigarh, Ambarsaria left studies to start caddying at the Chandigarh Golf Club.
“I was attracted to the game,” he says in chaste Punjabi. Over the years travelling with the professionals, whether on the golf course or standing on the range listening to their conversations, he has figured out what his son needs to do to succeed in golf.
“I go for gymnastics twice a week and spend a lot of time on the driving range and the green. I would like to be like Jeev sir one day and bring laurels to the club and country,” says Janshjeev.
In the last few months, Janshjeev has finished runner-up in Division C of the Little Masters Junior Golf event played at the Panchkula Golf Club and won the Ace Junior Skill Challenge at the Chandigarh Golf Association Golf Range.
He had three runner-up finishes last season.
Gurwinder monitors Janshjeev’s game and even sits on the range teeing up balls for him. However, he has an attitude that a lot of over-achieving parents can learn from. Caddying for a junior golfer, Gurwinder was equally passionate about his game.
“The boy had shot two-under-par at the same tournament that Janshjeev played in,” he said.
Such camaraderie and love for the game will certainly ensure that Janshjeev can do everything his namesake has done, and maybe more.
