India, Oct. 3 -- Pranavi Urs comes from Mysuru, a scenic city famous, among other things, for its annual festival parade, literary figures, erstwhile royalty. Add to that list the newly minted queen of golf.

On Saturday at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the 23-year-old won a historic women's individual golf gold medal. The first by an Indian woman, and the first since Shiv Kapur's men's title at Busan in 2002.

It was a display of steel, an attribute when combined with skill execution of a high level under pressure produces champions. Pranavi ticked both those boxes at the Kasugai Country Club East course on Saturday.

The reward for coming through the wringer of a final round was a thrilling one-shot victory over China's Yin Ruoning, the...