Lahiri and Shiv Kapur, who played college golf at Purdue, were asked to play a three-hole skins game at the end of an exhibition at Delhi Golf Club. Lahiri started playing golf about the time Woods won his first Masters, and Woods became a golfing hero. "Meeting him in person, he had a strong, positive aura about him," Lahiri said in a telephone interview from his home in Bangladore. Back surgery, a change in swing coaches and poor play has dropped him to No.