India, April 6 -- The fearless goddess. That's what the name Nirvika translates from Sanskrit.

On Sunday, a day before the world's finest golfers congregate at the Augusta National Golf Club for this week's Masters, 14-year-old Nirvika Koduru lived up to her name as she blitzed the field in the girls' 14-15 age category and won the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals in record fashion.

Nirvika, whose family hails from the coastal town of Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and lives in Boca Raton, Florida, was second in driving and third in chipping, when the girls moved to the final part of the challenge - the pressure-packed cauldron that is the 18th green of Augusta National. With thousands of patrons watching, she rammed in the first of her ...