Shubham Jaglan (11)is India’s next golf prodigy

 

Shubham Jaglan is going through what the majority of kids around the world loathe: studying for exams.
But, based in Delhi, 11-year-old Shubham is no ordinary kid. He has risen from the fields of Israna, a small Indian village in Haryana, to become a Junior World Golf champion.
The most surprising aspect of his steep ascent is the fact that he only took up golf six years ago, having no knowledge of even the sport’s existence prior to that.
Shubham’s father was a milkman in the village. He comes from a family of wrestlers. His paternal uncles were international wrestlers and medal winners. He was deemed fit to follow suit and was even enrolled in a wrestling academy in Israna.
But then he was introduced to the world of golf.
“One day my grandfather saw this golf academy open up in the village and told us about this new sport,” Shubham told