GOLF

Lahiri greatest amongst Indians at Newcastle

Fresh from his second-place end on the Liv Series occasion in Bedminster, ace Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri carded a hat-trick of birdies on the back-nine to be positioned tied sixteenth, one of the best amongst his compatriots, on the International Series England at Close House close to Newcastle on Friday.

Lahiri was at one-under 70 that included a hat-trick of birdies from 14th to the sixteenth, as Thailand’s Sarit Suwannarut fired a gap spherical of five-under-par 66 to take the lead in situations that had been chilly and wintry.

There are as many as 15 Indians within the discipline and the subsequent greatest Indian after Lahiri, was Ajeetesh Sandhu (71) at T-40.

The remainder of the Indian contingent had a troublesome time with Rashid Khan (73) mendacity at T-71, veterans Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa taking pictures 74, as did Khalin Joshi to be positioned T-86th and in peril of lacking the reduce.

Further down had been SSP Chawrasia and Shiv Kapur with 75 every and had been T-103rd, S Chikkarangappa, Gaganjeet Bhullar and Kartik Sharma carded 76 every to be T-114 and Rahil Gangjee and Karandeep Kochhar scored 77 every to be T-128th.

Honey Baisoya (78) was T-138, as was Veer Ahlawat and Viraj Madappa (79) at T-148th spot.

Lahiri’s card had 5 birdies towards an early double on second and two different bogeys.

Thailand’s Sarit fired six birdies and one bogey in chilly situations on the Colt Course to complete the day in entrance of American Jason Kokrak and Jaewoong Eom from Korea, who carded 67s every.

- PTI

Solid begin for Manu Gandas and Diksha Dagar in World Invitational

Indian golfer Diksha Dagar within the ladies’s part and Manu Gandas within the males’s class had been off to high-quality begins within the first spherical of the ISPS HANDA World Invitational Presented by AVIV Clinics.

The left-handed Diksha shot 1-under 71 to be tied-Thirteenth on a crowded leaderboard, whereas Gandas carded an excellent 5-under 67 and was tied second with three others.

The occasion is tri-sanctioned by the DP World Tour (DPWT), Ladies European Tour (LET) and LPGA Tour, with the boys’s and ladies’s tournaments being performed on the identical course on the similar time and having equal prize funds of $1.5m.

Dan Brown took benefit of beneficial climate situations to submit a gap seven-under-par spherical of 64 at Castlerock Golf Club to steer the sphere.

In the ladies’s part, 4 gamers -- Switzerland’s Kim Metraux, England’s Gabriella Cowley, Sweden’s Ellinor Sudow and Australia’s Karis Davidson -- fired rounds of 69 (-4) to be out within the entrance.

Diksha birdied the primary, ninth, tenth and fifteenth however dropped photographs on the eighth and eleventh and double-bogeyed the Par-3 sixteenth in her 71 for the day.

Her rating was creditable contemplating the course was enjoying robust, however nonetheless 31 gamers shot 1-under or higher. There had been 20 gamers at 1-under and Diksha was considered one of them.

Gandas, a product of the DLF Golf Academy in Gurugram, was an early starter. He birdied 4 instances within the first seven holes and had two extra on the fifteenth and 18th for considered one of his greatest begins of the season.

- PTI