Sukra Bahadur Rai: Nepal number 1 golfer’s rise into the game of the rich

One fine day some 11 years ago, Sukra Bahadur Rai stumbled into a golf course . The eighth-grader had given into the peer pressure, but no way had he thought that he would become a professional golfer one day. Yet, he is grateful that the day gave him a decade-long career in golf.

Golf has always been considered the game of the rich, yet Sukra Bahadur Rai’s family were labourers. Rai otherwise would have been an outcast, but his success today is inspiring many to become golfers like him. “Determination can overcome any limitation,” he says.