Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) is an Indian professional golfer who became the first player from India to join the European Tour in 1998. He has won four events on the European Tour making him the most successful Indian on tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first one to break into the top 100 in October in 2006.
Singh was born in Chandigarh, India to the famous Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh and Nirmal Kaur, former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team. He picked up the golf club at the age of nine and never put it down. Jeev Milkha Singh has taken Indian golf to the world and that's saying something in a country that's obsessed with cricket.
Singh attended Abilene Christian University in the United States of America and 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 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. In 2007 he became the first Indian golfer to participate in the Masters Tournament.
Jeev Milkha Singh received India's fourth highest civil honour the Padma Shri in 2007.
Please view an interview of Jeev on the link given below to get` inspiration from him.