June 7, 2014. Shiv Kapur, India’s only entry in the US Open this year will be tied with Maximillan Kieffer of Germany and Liang Wen CHONG from China. These bunch of players have a few interesting milestones between them. Kapur’s playing this Major for the first time after having played the British Open twice.
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35 year old Wen-Chong is only the second Chinese to qualify for this tournament after 14 year old Andy Chang in 2012 although like Kapur Wen-Chong has played the British Open before.
The youngest of the trio is Maximillan Kieffer who Kapur has played with on the European Challenge Tour. The 23-yeard old German qualified for the US Open through the international sectional in Surrey, England.
Kapur who is very excited and is busy preparing for the The US Open in United States said in an exclusive interview, “This means a lot to me especially since I came so close to qualifying for the US Open in 2004. Ten years down my dream has come true and how.” He skipped the Lyoness Open in Austria to gain time to prepare for Pinehurst. “In America, you need to really focus on driving straight and getting fairways. You cannot limp your way through a course like Pinehurst. So there is plenty of work to do. The greens for the US Open are often hard and fast and so I will need to work towards them.”
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