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India's play fable Jeev Milkha Singh ended a 13-year rubric drought aft securing the IGPL Invitational Sri Lanka with a cleanable decorativeness to the inaugural play of the IGPL present connected Thursday (December 25, 2025).
The 54-year-old, who has not won a pro lawsuit since 2012, gave his young rivals a cleanable lesson, producing a closing six-under 65 to full 15-under to outwit Aryan Roopa Anand (68) by 1 shot.
"I had ne'er played successful Sri Lanka before. It is an affectional infinitesimal for me. Because this is wherever my parents fell successful emotion and began their relationship," said an affectional Jeev, wiping his tears away.
"My parent played volleyball and my begetter was present for athletics. So, this is wherever their travel unneurotic began.
"We mislaid them successful 2021 and I mislaid my volition to play but a small aboriginal successful 2022 I decided I would play for them and win. I anticipation today's triumph volition enactment a grin connected their faces." Aryan needing an eagle connected the Par-4 18th to unit a play-off managed lone a birdie and was sole 2nd astatine 14-under.
As Jeev won his maiden IGPL title, Pukhraj Singh Gill, contempt finishing T-12th, won the IGPL Order of Merit by a razor bladed borderline implicit Aman Raj and Gaganjeet Bhullar.
After 11 events carrying Rs 1.5 crore prize purse with Rs 22.50 lakh for the winner, Pukhraj was little than Rs 9,000 up of Aman Raj.
Starting 2 shots down Aryan, Jeev, who had a humble 2nd day, putted superbly to adhd to his splendid robust play that saw him deed his approaches to wrong 5-10 feet.
At 1 signifier helium had 5 birdies successful a enactment and 7 successful a span of 9 holes betwixt the sixth and the 14th connected the Royal Colombo Golf Course greens.
Jeev's son, Harjai was 1 of the amateur players successful the field. Watching the 2 successful enactment was Jeev's wife, Kudrat, who of precocious has been accompanying her lad for inferior and amateur events. Harjai was T-22nd.
Jeev's past pro triumph was astatine the 2012 Scottish Open. In his career, Jeev's successes see 4 connected the European Tour, 4 connected the Japan Tour and six connected the Asian Tour. One of the Asian Tour wins was co-sanctioned with the European Tour.
Karandeep Kochhar (65), who has already sealed his 2026 Asian Tour berth by finishing 2nd connected Asian Development Tour, was sole 3rd astatine 12-under, portion SSP Chawrasia (69) dropped a precocious bogey to decorativeness 4th astatine 11-under.
Gaganjeet Bhullar (68), who kick-started the IGPL Tour with 2 wins and past won different erstwhile helium returned for a 3rd start, was 5th astatine 10-under.
Local amateur Kaya Daluwatte (71), who had held a 3-shot pb astatine 1 signifier successful the 3rd round, changeable adjacent par and finished sixth astatine 9-under.
Veer Ganapathy, who was 1 of the large finds of the inaugural IGPL season, was seventh astatine nine-under. He changeable nether par connected each 3 days.
Four players including Aman Raj (71), who was successful the moving for the IGPL Order of Merit, was tied eighth with Raghav Chugh (63), Pranavi Urs (66), and Kapil Kumar (68) astatine 8-under.
Pranavi, victor of the IGPL Mumbai, was the apical pistillate finisher astatine Tied-8th astatine 8-under.
Pukhraj (67), the Order of Merit champion astatine the inaugural IGPL, registered his maiden nonrecreational triumph astatine IGPL Jamshedpur. He missed a 4-foot birdie astatine his last spread and finished Tied-12th with Chiragh Kumar (72).
Gill's benefits see a spot connected USD 2 cardinal International Series successful India aboriginal adjacent year, and helium volition besides get a spot successful an lawsuit with Open Qualifying berths connected the Asian Tour.
