Aditi Ashok 20th Asian Games 2026: Results & Medals

Aditi Ashok is competing at her third Asian Games (after 2014 and 2023) at the Aichi-Nagoya edition in Japan. The golf competition runs from 30 September to 3 October 2026 at the Kasugai Country Club East Course, with four medal events: men's and women's individual and team. There is no cut, so every player plays all four rounds. In the team events, the two best scores of each round count for the country.

Her campaign has started slowly. In round one she made five birdies but also two triple bogeys, one on each nine, for a one-over 71 and a tie for 18th. In round two she shot 74 to stand at 5-over 145, tied 25th. India's women are third in the team standings on 7-under 273, behind China (268) and Singapore (269). Her teammate Pranavi Urs shot 66 and then a bogey-free 63 to move into second place at 11-under 129, two shots behind Singapore's Shannon Tan. With two rounds to go, India's team medal chances remain alive. Aditi is the only Indian woman to have won an Asian Games golf medal, with the individual silver at Hangzhou 2023.

The Indian Golf Union (IGU) announced India's six-member golf squad for the Asian Games on 7 June 2026: three men and three women. Selection was based on world rankings, not on a separate trial event. Aditi was India's highest-ranked golfer, placed 135th in the world at the time of selection, and was named to lead the women's team (reports describe her as captain).

• Women's squad: Aditi Ashok (world ranking 135), Diksha Dagar (221) and Pranavi Urs (270).
• Men's squad: Yuvraj Sandhu (447), Veer Ahlawat (549) and Saptak Talwar (569), ranked on the Official World Golf Ranking.
• Why she was a clear pick: a five-time Ladies European Tour (LET) winner, three-time Olympian and 2023 Asian Games silver medallist, with a 2026 LPGA Tour season that included a tied-third finish at the Blue Bay LPGA in March.
• Field: 111 golfers from 25 nations across the four golf events.

Aditi Ashok (born 29 March 1998 in Bengaluru) is an Indian professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. She has five LET titles, has played in three Olympics (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024), finished fourth at Tokyo 2020, missing an Olympic medal by a single stroke, and won individual silver at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, India's first women's golf medal at the event. She received the Arjuna Award in 2020.

Aditi's rise is one of Indian sport's most unusual stories, because she built a world-level career in a country where golf has a tiny following compared with cricket. She turned professional at 17, became a trailblazer on the LET and LPGA Tour, and went on to play three Olympics, almost winning a medal in Tokyo and winning silver at the Asian Games in 2023.

Aditi was born in Bengaluru to Ashok Gudlamani and Maheshwari. She started playing golf at the age of five, when Bangalore had only three golf courses, after her parents took her to the Karnataka Golf Association driving range. She studied at The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore, and graduated in 2016. Her father caddied for her at the Rio 2016 Olympics and her mother, Maheshwari, caddied for her at Tokyo 2020.

Aditi played the Asia Pacific Invitation at 12 and, aged 13, won her first title on the professional Hero Professional Tour as an amateur (2011).

• National Junior Championship: Won it three years in a row, in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
• Multi-sport Games: The only Indian golfer at the 2013 Asian Youth Games, the 2014 Youth Olympics and the 2014 Asian Games.
• Espirito Santo Trophy: Represented India in the World Amateur Team Championship in 2012 and 2014.
• 2015: Won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, the St Rule Trophy and the Thailand Amateur Open.
• December 2015: Won the Lalla Aicha Tour School, becoming its youngest and first Indian winner, which earned her a 2016 LET card and made her the youngest winner of a Q-School for an international tour.

Aditi turned professional in January 2016 and, when golf returned to the Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, was the youngest golfer in the field. She finished 41st. Months later she won the Hero Women's Indian Open in November 2016 by one stroke, becoming the first Indian to win a Ladies European Tour title, and followed it with the Qatar Ladies Open two weeks later. She finished the season second on the LET Order of Merit and won LET Rookie of the Year.

After the 2016 LET season, Aditi earned an LPGA Tour card for 2017 through LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, becoming the second Indian on the LPGA Tour after Simi Mehra. She finished eighth in the 2017 Rookie of the Year standings, and in 2018 she made 17 cuts in 24 events with two top-10s and the second-lowest putting average on the tour. In 2023 she finished fourth on the LET Order of Merit, won two LET titles and lost an LPGA playoff at the JM Eagle LA Championship to Hannah Green, her best LPGA result (second place). She is playing her tenth straight LPGA season in 2026.

Ranked 200th in the world, Aditi arrived at the delayed Tokyo Games as an outsider and produced one of India's greatest Olympic performances. She was in the silver medal position after 54 holes, started the final round in second place, and finished fourth with a 15-under 269, two shots behind gold medallist Nelly Korda of the United States and one shot away from the podium. Her mother, Maheshwari, was on her bag. It remains India's best golf finish at an Olympics.

At the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou (held 28 September to 1 October 2023), Aditi shot 67, 66, 61 and 77 for a 17-under 271. A third-round 61, with nine birdies and an eagle, gave her a seven-shot lead going into the last day, but a final-round 77 let Thailand's Arpichaya Yubol (269) take gold. Aditi took silver, ahead of South Korea's Yoo Hyun-jo (272), and became the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games golf medal.

Qualifying through the Olympic Golf Rankings, Aditi made her third Olympic appearance at Le Golf National, the most by any Indian golfer. She opened with an even-par 72 (tied 13th), was tied 14th after round two, dropped with a 79 in round three, and then fired a 4-under 68 on the last day to finish tied 29th at 2-over 290. Lydia Ko of New Zealand won gold at 10-under.

A look at her results at the Olympics and Asian Games.

2025 was a quiet year: she played 20 LPGA events, made 12 cuts, had two top-10s (including a tied-ninth at the Mexico Riviera Maya Open) and ended 75th in the standings. In 2026 she made a strong start with a tied-third at the Blue Bay LPGA in March (her best finish of the year, worth $154,091), followed by a tied-14th at the Fortinet Founders Cup and tied-24th at the Meijer LPGA Classic. She missed the cut at the Chevron Championship and the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. By late August, LPGA.com listed her with 15 starts, nine cuts, one top-10 and $344,100 in official earnings.

As of 1 October 2026, Aditi Ashok's next event is round 3 of the Asian Games 2026 women's individual golf on 2 October, followed by the final round on 3 October at the Kasugai Country Club East Course. The women's team competition is decided over the same four rounds. Tee times are not confirmed here, so check the official schedule.

Aditi Ashok has seven professional wins in total, including five Ladies European Tour titles. Her career-best world ranking is 41st, reached after her Spanish Open win in November 2023. At the time of Asian Games selection in June 2026 she was ranked 135th and was India's highest-ranked golfer.

She was also a nominee for the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2024.

At the Asian Games 2026 Aditi leads a women's squad of Diksha Dagar, a two-time Olympian with two LET titles who finished 22nd at Jakarta 2018, and Pranavi Urs, who finished 13th at the last Asian Games and is currently second in the individual standings. The men's squad is Yuvraj Sandhu (a record seven PGTI titles in 2025), Veer Ahlawat and Saptak Talwar. At the Hangzhou Games, the Indian golf team's coach was Jesse Grewal.

Aditi Ashok's career carries significance well beyond her trophy count.

• The first Indian to win a Ladies European Tour title (Hero Women's Indian Open, 2016)
• The first Indian woman to win an Asian Games golf medal (silver, Hangzhou)
• The youngest and first Indian winner of the LET Tour School (2015)
• The second Indian on the LPGA Tour, now in her tenth straight season
• Three Olympic appearances, with a fourth-place finish at Tokyo 2020, India's best in Olympic golf
• 39 major appearances, a record for an Indian golfer

From a Bengaluru driving range to Olympic contention, and now leading India's golfers at Asian Games 2026, Aditi Ashok still has two rounds left to move up the leaderboard and put India in the team medal hunt.