Thailand’s Poosit Supupramai made a brilliant birdie on the par-four 18th to win the inaugural Bharath Classic 2025 Gujarat today – breathing a huge sigh of relieve after recording his maiden victory on the Asian Tour.

A powerful nine iron to 10 feet, from where he duly converted for a three to close with a three-under-par 69 and a tournament total of 18-under, saw him win by one from Korean Wooyoung Cho, who returned a 65.

Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond (72) and Panuphol Pittarayat (69), both paired with Poosit on another Shotgun Start day, fellow Thai Ekpharit Wu (67) and Indian Sachin Baisoya (62) tied for third another two shots backs

The US$500,000 event was held at Kensville Golf Resort, just outside of Ahmedabad city, and was joint-sanctioned with the newly-launched Indian Golf Premier League.

Poosit and Jazz, chasing his eighth win on the Asian Tour, started day locked in a share of the lead but the former edged it after brave performance.

Poosit Supupramai.

He started the event, the penultimate tournament of the year on the Asian Tour, 81^st on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, hoping to move closer to finishing in the top 65 to keep his card.

The 32-year-old went far and beyond that moving into 29th position on the list while the win has handed him a one-year exemption on the Tour.

“Amazing, I can’t believe it,” said Poosit, whose previous best result on the Asian Tour was joint third at last year’s SJM Macao Open.

“I was struggling on the front nine, I was not playing well. It was all about mindset – that got me through.”

He made the turn in one-over, after two bogies and one birdie, and trailed the front runner Jazz. But he was able to turn things around on the back nine. He made three birdies in a row from the 12^th, before another on 18.

On the 18^th he was one ahead of Jazz, who made bogey. Cho, who finished on the ninth hole, birdied his last two holes to close the gap.

Added Poosit: “I came here to try and improve my ranking on the Merit list. It was on my mind, not winning. But to secure my card this week with the win, it’s beyond my dreams.

“Before the last two tournaments I changed the loft and lie on my putter. It made such a big difference – I started holing putts.”

Jazz Janewattananond.

He clearly likes playing in this part of the world, as his victory on the Asian Development Tour in 2017 came at the Defence Raya Golf Championship in Pakistan, which is not far from Ahmedabad.

Cho led at the halfway mark, slipped out of the running yesterday but rebounded well today – for his best finish on the Asian Tour.

“My feeling yesterday was very, very bad for me, because I didn’t have good timing with my swing,” he said.

“Today I tried just to focus on my swing, and that’s why I could shoot 65. I thought I would have a chance if I just played minus five today, but I saw the scoreboard on my last hole, and I thought, I can do this, I can get the win.

“I didn’t think Poosit would make a birdie on the last hole, so I just tried to make birdie on my last hole. But I saw that he made the birdie, so it’s okay.”

Jazz was bitterly disappointed to finish poorly having led for much of the day but continues to take heart from improved performances.

Of his final round, he said: “Just scruffy, just haven’t played the way I played the first three days. Didn’t hit it close enough, and the putts didn’t want to go in, so nothing was going in until the 16th where I holed a putt. Literally nothing. It was like, first of all I holed putt, and then three putted right away. And then from then on, it just been a grind. Just try to make pars and then, you know, just not hitting good enough consistently to win yet.”

There is a one week gap now before the Asian Tour heads to the Middle East for the Saudi Open presented by PIF. The US$1million event is the season-ending event and will be played at Dirab Golf & Country Club, just outside the capital Riyadh. American John Catlin, the reigning Asian Tour Order of Merit champion, is the defending champion.

Pictures by Jaydeep Singh Jadeja/Asian Tour.