India, April 25 -- Of the 29 nationalities represented at the Serapong golf course here, few are as complex as Pakistan. And we're talking just sports here. Unlike hockey and squash that have had their time there, golf could never capture popular imagination and remains the privilege of the super elite. Their domestic tour boasts of around 200 professionals, but none barring one holds playing rights on any international tour.

That one, Ahmad Baig, shone bright under the unforgiving Sentosa sun on Saturday to jump 23 places on the leaderboard and take a creditable tied-fifth on the penultimate day of the $2million International Series event.

"I played very well today. The conditions were very tough. There was a lot of wind and it was ver...