Aditi Ashok has jumped 66 spots to rise to a career-best 132nd in the latest world rankings for womens golf, released on Monday. It continues her phenomenal rise since the start of the year, when she was ranked 468, and increases her chances of being named the Ladies European Tours Rookie of the Year going into the Final Stage LPGA qualifying event later this week.Aditi, who registered back-to-back titles on the Ladies European Tour with wins in the Indian Open as well as the Qatar Open on Sunday, only turned pro in January 2016. Its been a terrific year for her, says Nonita Lall Qureishi, the six-time winner of the All-India Open. Thanks to Aditi, the Indian womens tour has really come of age.?Qureishi told ESPN how she helped Aditi make a crucial decision when the rookie was at a crossroads in 2015.Last year, we were chatting at the (British) Open, and she had just received an offer from Stanford University to join them on a golf scholarship. Around the same time, she had also qualified through the Ladies European Tour school. I think that was the only time she was a little confused about what would be better for her, Qureishi, an Arjuna Awardee, said.?So I told her that it just didnt make any sense to refuse an opportunity to play professional golf when it was right there. She decided to go professional, and if she has a good week in the qualifying school in Florida, we might see her on the LPGA Tour soon, she added.It seems the conversation paid off.A measure of how good her year has been is that the next-best Indian golfer in the world rankings is Vani Kapoor, at 702nd. Going into her maiden year as a pro, Aditi had already set a unique record as the only Indian to have competed at the Asian Youth Games, the youth Olympics as well as the Asian Games, all between 2013 and 2014.She added to this with an appearance at the 2016 Olympics, where she was tied-8th after registering successive scores 3-under 68 in the first two rounds, but finished tied-41st in a field where she was one of the youngest.Aditi has won two of the events on the Ladies European Tour, and finished in the top-ten in three other events. She also competed in the womens British Open in 2016.Speaking to ESPN after her win in the Indian open, Aditi had credited her participation in the Rio Olympics for her increased confidence and subsequent results.The Olympics definitely added to my confidence as I played with the best players in the world and I was in the top three after two rounds. My performance has been consistent and getting better with every event I play, Aditi had said. I have had four consecutive top tens on the LET so far and all this adds to my confidence, especially with a win last week (in the Indian Open).Qureishi, while calling Aditis achievement phenomenal, also compared the 18-year-olds achievement to that of one of the greatest golfers ever, Tiger Woods.I personally dont think age is a factor in golf. If you look at someone like Tiger Woods, he too turned pro at about the same age. The age becomes irrelevant if the time frame of playing golf is correct. Aditi has been playing since she was a really young kid. Shes had plenty of experience, and shes always been very clear about what she has wanted from professional golf, she said. Custom Cincinnati Reds Jerseys .ca NHL Power Rankings for the second straight week, ahead of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Avalanche. Custom Milwaukee Brewers Jerseys . 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Oh, and she managed to graduate from high school along the way, taking online classes between grueling training sessions in Southern California.Before she starts at UCLA in the fall, she strides onto the Olympic stage beginning with Tuesdays opener against Spain.Just to be able to get the experience, to get the opportunity to play at this level has been definitely eye-opening, Musselman said Sunday after practice at the Flamengo Club. Ive learned countless things, countless lessons in the pool and out of the pool, and its just been amazing.Musselman is coming off an impressive scoring spree against Russia, collecting 12 goals as the U.S. swept the three-game series to run its win streak to 16 since a 5-4 loss to Australia on May 31. The 5-foot-11 attacker scored 13 times when the U.S. went 8-0 on its way to the title at an Olympic qualification tournament in the Netherlands in March.Im so excited for her to be here and have the opportunity to compete because shes a really special player, Craig said. Shes fast. Shes got great legs. Shes got an awesome shot and at such young age to have the confidence and step up in the moments that she does is pretty incredible.Musselman, the middle of three daughters for former major league pitcher Jeff Musselman and his wife, Karen, was a swimmer growing up in California and also played soccer. But once she played water polo, she was hooked. 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He made his major league debut with the Blue Jays in September 1986 and went 23-15 with a 4.31 ERA in five years in the majors.When we were going through all (these) different sports trying to find what we love, he was right there with us, saying `Oh, Ive been there, I know what youre experiencing, Maddie Musselman said, and he provided just lessons that we wanted to learn, and just gave us that confidence that you know you might not be good at every single sport, its just finding what you love and playing it.Jeff Musselman said he knows very little about water polo, but compares Maddies situation to joining Toronto when he was 23. Not only was it his first time in the majors, but he made it to the Blue Jays during a successful period for the franchise. He had his best season when Toronto went 96-66 in 1987, going 12-5 with a 4.15 ERA in 68 games.Being around that, I think was very helpful to be able to share my experience, said Musselman, who works for sports agent Scott Boras. You know its the same game, just more people watching.A lot more people in the Olympics, but the U.S. is confident Musselman will rise to the occasion.Her tenacity and her competitiveness is something that we all love to see in practice and compete against in practice, U.S. captain Maggie Steffens said, but we are darn happy to have it on our side when were in competition.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap ' ' '