Young golfer Karan Pratap Singh prevailed in a decent end to assert his maiden victory on the Rs 1 crore PGTI Players Championship introduced by Chandigarh Golf Club on Saturday.
The 22-year-old’s win adopted his career-best runner-up end in Noida final week, the place he had misplaced in a playoff.
Karan (70-70-68-70), mendacity two photographs off the lead in second place at the beginning of the day, posted a resolute two-under 70 on day 4 to tally 10-under 278 for the week that saved his nearest rivals at bay and helped him triumph by one shot.
Om Prakash Chouhan (72-70-69-68) of Mhow and Arjun Sharma (71-68-70-70) of Greater Noida have been the joint runners-up at matching totals of nine-under 279.
Karan from Faridabad had an action-packed front-nine the place he made 4 birdies and three bogeys. His 30-feet birdie conversion on the third and an ideal 9-iron tee shot on the eighth the place he narrowly missed a hole-in-one was his standout moments on the front-nine.
The bespectacled Karan, who has an unconventional placing grip known as the claw grip, saved himself in competition on a busy leaderboard with a birdie and bogey until the fifteenth.
Karan lastly broke away from the pack by making a high quality chip-putt for Birdie on the seventeenth. He made one other nice chip-putt, this time for par, after lacking the inexperienced on the 18th to come back house the champion.
Karan, who turned skilled in 2019, took house the winner’s cheque price Rs 15 lakh to climb from sixth to 3rd place within the TATA Steel PGTI Rankings as his season’s earnings moved to Rs 33,34,463.
“It was great to finally get the job done especially after coming so close and losing out in the playoff last week. The turning point for me today was the birdie on the eighth hole where I nearly made a hole-in-one,” Karan mentioned.
“It’s an amazing feeling to win my first title. I’ve been playing well since the start of the year and have had good results. This win is all the more important for me as I missed the second half of last season due to a knee injury.
“I switched to the claw grip on my putter last year. This change in my putting grip has really suited my game and has helped me putt better.” The seasoned Om Prakash Chouhan, a contender for probably the most a part of the ultimate day, combined six birdies and two bogeys to shoot the day’s finest rating of 68. He moved up six spots from his in a single day tied eighth place.
Chouhan, a winner final month, additional prolonged his lead within the TATA Steel PGTI Rankings because of his joint runner-up end. His season’s earnings now stand at Rs 52,52,650.
Arjun Sharma had a sluggish begin with a solitary bogey on the front-nine earlier than he raced into competition with three birdies on the back-nine. Arjun, a runner-up on the PGTI final 12 months, missed out on a birdie alternative on the 18th to finish the week in tied second.
Delhi’s Kapil Kumar (71) and Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain (74) completed tied fourth at eight-under 280.