Relaxed Lahiri ready to fire first salvo with Wang at EurAsia Cup

The biennial team event between Asian and European golf teams starts in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on Friday. The European Tour, we’ve had The Ryder Cup for a long time, and you know, certainly for a natural progression with how supportive the Asian Tour have been of The European Tour for a long, long time, and to have a tournament like this match-play tournament, which we don’t have many of, it gives the Asian guys the ability to show the world how good they are.

“I believe in our players”, Singh said.

In comparison to the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in September, it’s a low-key team event and very few will remember the inaugural match between Team Europe and Team Asia ending 10-10 two years ago. He is looking to try and match the heroics of past year.

Team Asia captain Jeev Milkha Singh of India is planning to adopt a relaxed approach when he leads his star golfers out at the second edition of the EurAsia Cup starting here on Friday.

“He comes and talks to us and wants to know what we want and what makes us comfortable and to play with our strengths, which is I think the greatest job of a captain is to nurture his team, and he does that really well”. “I’m going to be in all the Majors and all the big tournaments so hopefully I can win a big one”. Last time, they thought they would send a B Street team and roll over us. So we can take care of each other.

In theory, away from home and against a United States of America gunning for revenge, Westwood and Poulter are precisely the kind of players Clarke should need. In the team room, there are a lot of laughs, smiles, and especially Captain Jeev, he’s been really nice to us.

Jeunghun Wang, who has had a great year in 2015, said, “I am playing for the first time in the EurAsia Cup, first off, I’m very honoured and also very confident”.

“It helped my confidence and it was the very first taste of team competition at a high level. I don’t know what order I’m going to put them out, but I do know”.

Experience was what Clarke wanted, hence he brought in Ian Poulter, who played his role in the 2012 Miracle of Medinah, and Lee Westwood, fourth in the all-time scoring list in the Ryder Cup, as his captain’s picks. “SSP Chawrasia and Kiradech Aphibarnrat play a lot of practice rounds together when they are in Europe; Prayad Marksaeng, who is 50 and still going strong, plays with KT Kim on the Japan Tour; likewise with Wu Ashun and Shingo Katayama; European Tour Rookie of the Year Byeong Hun An is familiar with ev ergreen Thongchai Jaidee’s game”.

“But it’s the same principle as anything else: You try to hit it down the middle, hit it close and then make the putt”.