Jaipur, 11 November: Vani Kapoor and Ridhima Dilawari, the two dominant players of the domestic season, head the field as the 14th leg of the 2026 Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour gets under way at Rambagh Golf Club in Jaipur.

With only two events left in the 2026 season, several other title winners will also fancy their chances this week.

Ridhima leads the Order of Merit

Ridhima has played all 13 events so far, winning four and finishing runner-up twice, and leads the Hero Order of Merit. Her titles came at Kalhaar Blues and Greens, Poona Golf Club, Jaypee Wishtown and Prestige Golfshire, where she finished at 10-under 206 in August, one shot ahead of Mannat Brar.

She was third behind Vani and Anvvi Dahiya at the 13th leg and tied 30th at the Hero Women’s Indian Open, and will be keen to return to winning ways in Jaipur.

Vani arrives in form

Vani, the 2025 Hero Order of Merit winner, has two wins and three runner-up finishes from 10 starts this season and is second on the money list. The 32-year-old won the ninth leg and then the 13th, where she beat Dahiya in a three-hole play-off.

She also comes in on the back of her best Ladies European Tour finish. At the Hero Women’s Indian Open in Gurugram she carded 73, 69, 69 and 70 for a seven-under 281, finishing second to Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum after leading going into the final round. The tour’s most successful player in terms of wins will be looking for a third title of the year.

Other contenders

All but three of this season’s winners are in the field; Vidhatri Urs, Anvitha Narender and amateur Lavanya Gupta are absent. The other winners playing are Jasmine Shekar, Mannat Brar, Sneha Singh and Tvesa Malik.

Tvesa finished seventh at one-under 287 at the Women’s Indian Open with rounds of 71, 73, 71 and 72. Amandeep Drall, a former runner-up at that event, former Order of Merit winner Sneha Singh, Seher Atwal and Jasmine add experience, while Mannat, runner-up to Ridhima at Prestige Golfshire, leads the younger challengers.

The field also includes amateurs Ojaswini Saraswat, Shiksha Jain and Mehak Lohan, and qualifier Arohi Kataria. Ojaswini became the youngest Indian to make the cut at the Hero Women’s Indian Open.

Key first-round groups (IST)

• 8:30 am, 1st tee: Jasmandeep Kaur, Amandeep Drall, Mehak Lohan (A)


• 8:55 am, 1st tee: Tvesa Malik, Jahnavi Prakhya, Gourabi Bhowmick


• 9:15 am, 1st tee: Anisha Agarwalla, Vani Kapoor, Ojaswini Saraswat (A)


• 9:25 am, 1st tee: Janneya Dasannie, Ridhima Dilawari, Eti Chaudhary


• 8:00 am, 10th tee: Smriti Bhargav, Sneha Singh, Ravjot Dosanjh


• 8:10 am, 10th tee: Lavanya Jadon, Seher Atwal, Yaalisai Verma

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