Lakshman Singh (golfer)
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Lakshman Singh (born c.1952) is an Indian
golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
er who won the individual gold medal for India at
1982 Asian Games The 9th Asian Games ( hi, 1982 एशियाई खेल) were held from 19 November to 4 December 1982, in Delhi, India. 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken at the event. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of ...
. He was awarded
Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...
in 1982. He hails from
Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...
state. His sons, Arjun Singh and Ranjit Singh have also represented India in golf. He is popularly known as Bunny Lakshman Singh.


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Indian male golfers Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games medalists in golf Golfers at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Golfers from Rajasthan Recipients of the Arjuna Award Rajasthani people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-golf-bio-stub