Monday 28 May 2012

Salute to Jeev Milkha Singh




Personal Life:

Jeev Milkha Singh (born on 15-12-1971) is the first Indian professional golfer to become a member of the European Tour.


      He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006. He is married to Kudrat and has a son Harjai and lives in Chandigarh.


Jeev was born in Chandigarh, India to Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh and Nirmal Kaur, former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team.

Education:




Jeev studied in Abilene Christian University in the United States and obtained a degree in Business and International studies in 1996.


Golfing Career:


Career Singh won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1993. He also won a number of amateur tournaments in the U.S. 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 until 2006 was in 1999, when he came 50th on the Order of Merit. He struggled with injury in the early years of the new century but in April 2006 he won the Volvo China Open, becoming the second Indian player to win on the European Tour after Arjun Atwal. He also won the season ending Volvo Masters, which elevated him to a final position of 16th on the Order of Merit. He finished 2006 as the winner of the Asian Tour Order of Merit and capped his season with a pair of back to back wins in Japan to become the first Indian to make the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.[5] In 2007 he became the first Indian golfer to participate in the Masters Tournament.[6] In August 2008, Singh achieved the highest ranking for an Indian in any major event at the 2008 PGA Championship in Oakland Hills, finishing at T9, making him arguably India's best golfer ever.Jeev finished the 2008 European Tour season ranked 12th on the Order of Merit, and after winning the Barclays Singapore Open won his second Order of Merit title on the Asian Tour.
In 2009, Singh finished the WGC-CA Championship in fourth place, after leading round one. Singh played on the Nationwide Tour in 2003. He played on the PGA Tour from 2007 to 2010, where his best finish was 4th place at the 2009 WGC-CA Championship. Singh received India's fourth highest civil honour the Padma Shri in 2007.


Struggles in the Career:


Jeev Milkha ingh suffered from a severe slipped disc problem.

In December 2010 Jeev Milkha Singh Golfer was playing a tournament in Japan . where he had a attack of slipped disc. Immediately due to severe pain he pull back from the tournament. He was in excruciating pain and was unable to become straight. He came back to India and taken advice of top sports physio,chiropractor and orthopaedic sugeons of renowned hospitals. 

On the basis of MRI(Medical Resonance Imaging) and painful condition of the golfer Doctors advised that it would take atleast take 6 months for Jeev Milkha Singh to recover and after that also his chances of complete recovery willremain doubtful.


Since Jeev had a strong belief in India System of medication he met Swami Shivachittam and asked for advice. Swami Shivachittam who had an experience in treating similar ailments for the last many years easily said, you can be cured perfectly and can resume active golfing within 1-2 months.


Jeev accepted the advice of Swami shivachittam( who in 2004 had also cured the than Central Vigilance Commissioner, P Shankar from Slipped Disc).

Within a one and half month from the start of the session Jeev was miraculously cured of his illness.

Hindustan Times has publised this story in its edition of Delhi in which Jeev also owed this cure to Shivachittam and his organisation http://www.anandabodh.com/

We salute to the spirit of the Golfer.