Joshi, Chawrasia, Pranavi and Avani qualify for Asian Games golf

Apr 29, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Joshi, Chawrasia, Pranavi and Avani qualify for Asian Games golf

Bengaluru duo Pranavi Urs and beginner Avani Prashanth tied for the primary place at 10-under 206 and can be a part of Aditi Ashok within the Indian girls’s staff for the Asian Games in China in September this yr.

Pranavi, trailing Avani by one shot after the second spherical of the trials on the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, carded 3-under 69 regardless of a late bogey on seventeenth.

Avani, nonetheless main by one when she got here to the 18th, bogeyed the ultimate gap to fall in a tie with Pranavi within the Indian Golf Union-run trials.

In the boys’s part Khalin Joshi accomplished a wire-to-wire to win with a remaining spherical of 4-under 68 that gave him a complete of 13-under 203 for 54 holes.

SSP Chawrasia who performed on the 2016 Olympics additionally shot 68 and totalled 11-under 205 for the second place.

Joshi and Chawrasia will be a part of Anirban Lahiri and Shubhankar Sharma within the males’s staff.

The girls’s squad will probably be an all-Bengaluru staff with Aditi, Avani and Pranavi, whereas Khalin can be from Bengaluru and Anirban has spent a whole lot of time there. Chawrasia is from Kolkata and Shubhankar is from Chandigarh.

As Pranavi and Avani tied for the highest spot, Tvesa Malik shot 68 and ended third at 9-under 207, whereas Amandeep Drall (71) was fourth at 7-under 209. Diksha Dagar (70) and Vani Kapoor (71) had been fifth and sixth.

Among males, Viraj Madappa (68) who opened with a disappointing 75 on first day shot 66-68 over subsequent two days however he and Aman Raj (72) resulted in a tie for the third place at 7-under 209.

The joint first place for Avani continued her nice run as she additionally received the person honours within the Queen Sirikit Cup as she positioned herself firmly as one of many premier skills within the girls’s part regardless of nonetheless being an beginner.

For Pranavi, who’s simply in her second season as a professional, this will probably be an enormous increase forward of the Epson Tour, for which she will probably be leaving subsequent week.

Khalin Joshi, who’s slowly working his manner again to the shape that received him a title on the Asian Tour, will get an enormous increase because the season is packed for him.

Lahiri, who in 2006 received a staff silver on the Doha Asian Games has since performed the Rio and Tokyo Olympic Games and won’t signify India in his second Asian Games.

Chawrasia was Lahiri’s teammate in 2016 whereas Udayan Mane had made the grade with Lahiri in 2020 Tokyo Games, which had been held in 2021.

Aditi performed the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and has additionally performed on the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Diksha, who made the staff for Tokyo missed out on the 2023 Asian Games as she completed fifth on the trials.