India’s Anirban Lahiri was celebrating when he holed out for an ace at the par three, ninth hole during today’s third round of the 141st Open Championship.

Lahiri’s 9-iron shot from 150-yards landed on the green to the right of the flag and rolled gently into the cup, and with the crowd standing to their feet and roaring their approval.

Unfortunately there is no gleaming new car or a watch or champers for Lahiri.  Just the honour on the next tee.

“When it went in, everybody goes wild. I go wild. Fantastic!” he said.

“Doing it at The Open takes the cake.

“You’re just looking around, you don’t know how to express yourself, and then you see your dad jumping up, blowing you kisses.

“These moments don’t come every day. The ball is with my dad. I don’t think anyone can take it away from him.”

The 25-year old is competing in his first Open Championship after qualifying earlier this year at the International Asian qualifier.

The Bangalore-born Lahiri is one of India’s rising stars and he displayed his potential when he won his maiden Asian Tour title at the 2011 Panasonic Open India.

However he’s no stranger to victory having also captured the 2009 Haryana Open and the 2009 BILT Open.

Lahiri had expressed a huge sense of relief a day earlier when he and good friend, Jeev Milka Singh both move the cut in golf’s oldest major.

“If someone had offered me an even- par score at the end of two rounds before the start I would have taken it,” he said.

Lahiri’s ace and the fact both he and Singh made the cut continues a wonderful two weeks for India golf after Singh captured the Scottish Open.

Singh became a national hero with TV footage of his victory at Castle Stuart beamed the length and breadth of the world’s largest democratic nation.