Chandigarh Golf Academy’s Bet Pays Off With Two India Call-Ups

Two teenagers from the same Chandigarh golf academy are about to represent India on two different continents inside three weeks. Guntas Kaur Sandhu tees off at the 40th Malaysian Ladies Amateur Open Championship in Shah Alam on July 28, then joins training partner Rashi Mishra at the R&A Girls Amateur Championship in Scotland from August 10 to 15. According to ANI, both golfers train under coach Jesse Grewal at Roundglass Golf Academy in Chandigarh.

Neither call up landed out of nowhere. The same academy produced a new Indian Golf Union number one ranked amateur this year, and its brand ambassador is already India’s top ranked men’s professional. Three results, one campus, one season: that is what a multi-year bet on centralized coaching looks like once it starts compounding.

Two Countries, One Fortnight

Sandhu flies to Malaysia first. The Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Shah Alam hosts the 40th edition of the Malaysian Ladies Amateur Open Championship, drawing 120 players from 12 countries, including Brunei, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, host nation Malaysia and India. Malaysia’s own contingent runs 26 deep, led by last year’s runner-up Foong Zi Yu, according to the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation’s tournament preview marking the event’s 40th year.

From there Sandhu and Mishra regroup for Scotland. The R&A Girls Amateur Championship runs at Craigielaw, on the East Lothian coast, from August 10 to 15. Entry required a handicap of 2.4 or a place inside the world’s top 1000, spelled out on the R&A’s own eligibility and entry page for the championship. Entries closed on July 16, so both Indian names were locked in well before this week.

Both events sit on the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) calendar, the system golf uses to seed exactly this kind of championship field.

The Wellness Conglomerate That Bought Into Golf

Roundglass is not a traditional sports federation. It is a wellness focused venture platform founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Gurpreet Sunny Singh, built around what the company calls wholistic wellbeing across health, nature and sport, according to its own description of the wellness venture Singh built starting in 2014. Golf was not its first sporting bet either. In April 2020, Roundglass Sports bought the I-League football club then known as Minerva Punjab and rebuilt it as Punjab FC, running academies for children aged six to 14 across Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula.

The golf academy followed the same playbook: pick a sport, plant it in one city, fund it for years before expecting results. Roundglass Golf Academy launched at the Chandigarh Golf Club with its first batch of 15 golfers, all under 19, built around one head coach rather than a rotating cast of regional trainers.

Meet the Coach Behind Both Golfers

Jesse Grewal is India’s first and only Dronacharya Award winner in golf, the country’s highest government honor for a coach. Before Roundglass, he helped shape the games of Shubhankar Sharma, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu and Karandeep Kochhar. Sharma is now India’s top ranked men’s professional golfer and the academy’s brand ambassador, a closed loop that lets the academy point to its own coach’s earlier work as proof of method.

Grewal’s academy pitches itself as more than a swing lab. Beyond technical work, it builds in nutrition planning, fitness training, mental wellbeing support and structured tournament travel, the pieces that turn a talented junior into a golfer who can hold a score together on a foreign course under a foreign sky.

The Academy’s Trophy Case Keeps Filling

What separates this from a single good story is repetition. In one season, Roundglass Golf Academy can point to a cluster of outcomes rather than one outlier.

• Shubhankar Sharma, India’s top ranked men’s professional golfer, now serves as the academy’s brand ambassador
• Anshul Mishra was crowned India’s number one ranked amateur golfer by the Indian Golf Union this year
• Guntas Kaur Sandhu, once the youngest Indian to qualify for the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship, now heads to Malaysia
• Rashi Mishra joins Sandhu on India’s team for the R&A Girls Amateur Championship in Scotland

A five year old private academy producing a national number one amateur, a brand ambassador who is the country’s top pro, and two separate international call ups in the same stretch is the kind of density state run programs rarely match on this budget or timeline.

How Sandhu Climbed the World Rankings

Sandhu is still a teenager, just 14 when she broke into India’s top ranked women’s amateur spot on the IGU merit list. Her World Amateur Golf Ranking profile lists a best ever mark of sixth against a current position far more modest, a gap that shows both her ceiling and how young she still is relative to the women she is chasing.

• 545th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of February 2026
• 6 is her best ever WAGR rank to date
• 598.3444 is her ranking point average
• 17 wins sit among 23 top 10 finishes logged in her ranking window

Her domestic season backs the numbers. She won the IGU West Bengal Ladies and Junior Girls Golf Championship and the Gujarat Ladies and Junior Girls Amateur, then finished runner-up at the IGU Eastern India Championship. She has already represented India at the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship, where she finished tied 17th after an opening round of 71, and at the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation Junior Championship.

What Does Mishra Need at Craigielaw?

Mishra needs a clean week on an unfamiliar links to turn a strong junior season into a marquee amateur result. She arrives as one of India’s more consistent junior competitors, but Craigielaw’s wind exposed, firm turned fairways will test a game built mostly on inland Indian courses.

The Delhi based golfer has already shown she can win at home, taking the national Junior Girls Category B title with a score of seven over 223 and adding the combined A and B Junior Girls Championship crown. Internationally, she carded rounds of 81, 75 and 73 to finish 19th at the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation Junior Championship earlier this year, and placed second in Category B girls at the Clover Greens South Zone Junior Golf Championship.

Entry to Craigielaw cost £85 (about $108) and required clearing the R&A’s handicap or ranking bar. Sandhu and Mishra cleared it. By August 15, a Chandigarh academy that did not exist a decade ago will have sent golfers to compete on two continents in the space of three weeks.