India, Jan. 29 -- Arjun Atwal knows a thing or two about winning. The trailblazing Indian golfer remains the only one from the country to have won on the US PGA Tour (2010) besides winning thrice on the European Tour (now known as DP World Tour) and eight times on the Asian Tour. Now 52, the grizzled veteran who currently turns out on the senior tour, finds himself at the vantage point to dispassionately analyse the state of Indian golf.

Over the years, as India's PGTI Tour has become richer and the domestic competitions have been unprecedentedly incentivised, Indian wins on international tours have paradoxically vanished. India's last victory of note on the European Tour came in 2018 when Shubhankar Sharma won the Maybank Championship i...