India, July 8 -- An astonishing story of resilience and perseverance is playing out in world golf. And India is right in the thick of things.

After being out of top-level golf for nearly seven years, Las Vegas native Jhared Hack was trying to resuscitate his career. But when he failed to make it past the second stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying School last year, all doors seemed to be closing again.

One chilly December evening in 'Sin City', Hack planned his redemption. What he told his wife must have sounded like the script of 'Eat, Pray and Love' to Tara Hack.

"I told her that I'd go to India and try to qualify for the PGTI. If I did well in the first half of the season, I had a chance to get on to the HotelPlanner Tour, and there was...