Indian Jugard  for a Drone’s View

on the Golf Course

 

 This story of my mine is a bit on the lighter side.  The incident took place during the Professional Golf Tour of India’s (PGTI) Tour Championship 2022. The event is played by the top 60 golfers on the PGTI Order of Merit and is being conducted at the Golmuri Golf Club at Jamshedpur.

As a matter of practice, I accompany my son Yuvraj Singh Sandhu whenever he comes to Jamshedpur to play this prestigious event. This provides me with an opportunity to meet my friends and see Yuvraj in action. I also try to capture golfing as well as non-golfing moments while walking on the golf course.

On 21 December 2022, this unique scene sequence was captured by my friend Mr Suresh, a referee on the tour. I had just walked in from the other side. The sequence had a high-octane golf moment of Ankur Chadha, a professional golfer and the electricity board linesman who was up in the air to rectify a fault. The spot is close to the third hole on the golf course.

Being a windy day, the longish approach shot of Ankur drifted and  landed in a bit of a tight spot. He was looking forward to making a birdie with his recovery shot. At the same time the linesman in picture too was up in the air with his improvised safety harness (Indian Jugard). Both were in a precarious situation in their respective fields.

I would say that the linesman was lucky to have a drone shot of the entire golfing moment. Ankur did his part of adding excitement by executing a flawless golfing shot in this situation. He succeeded in putting his ball close to the pin and made a remarkable comeback with a birdie. After a while the linesman too completed his task and moved out of that place