Jeev Milkha Singh (b. 15 December1971) was the first Indiangolfer to become a member of the PGA European Tour. December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs. ... // The PGA European Tour is a top-level professional mens golf tour. ...
Singh spent some time in the U.S. in the early 1990s, winning a number of amateur tournaments. His first professional win came at the 1993 Southern Oklahoma State Open, a minor local event, but he played mainly in Asia, where he was a regular winner in the mid 1990s. In 1997 he finished seventh at the European Tour qualifying school, and he joined the tour the following year. His best season in Europe up to 2004 was 1999, when he came fiftieth on the order of merit.