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Golf

Aditi playing cards 67, lies 2nd in Americas Open

India’s Aditi Ashok shot a bogey-free five-under 67 to lie second on the Mizuho Americas Open golf event right here.

The lone Indian on the world’s greatest skilled stage of girls’s golf, Aditi was mendacity second behind chief Lauren Hartlage (65).

As Hartlage shot her career-best spherical on the LPGA with 5 birdies and an eagle and no bogeys, Aditi had 5 birdies and no bogeys and was two behind on the iconic Liberty National Golf Club.

Aditi was second after a loss in a play-off at JM Eagle LA Championship and completed T-5 on the Cognizant Founders Cup.

She already has one win this season on the Ladies European Tour moreover two different top-3 finishes and leads the Order of Merit on the opposite aspect of the Atlantic.

“I don’t think you can ever go into an event thinking this is the one I’m going to win because golf kind of humbles you sometimes,” Aditi mentioned.

“But, yeah, I just know that if I play good four days, then I’ll have a pretty good chance. I just focus on trying to play the best round of golf I can play on that day. Sometimes that’s a 67; sometimes that’s a 72,” added Aditi, who has been on the LPGA tour since 2017.

Starting on the tenth, Aditi was up and working with birdies on tenth and twelfth and added a 3rd on sixteenth. She turned in three-under and additional good points got here in from fifth and sixth.

Aditi performed very effectively hitting 12 of the 14 fairways and located 13 greens in regulation and wanted 27 putts for the spherical. She could have missed a few birdies however was proud of a 67.

Hartlage dominated with a bogey-free seven-under.

She began with an eagle on the tenth and stored up the tempo.

At tied third are Northern Irishwoman Stephanie Meadow and two-time champion Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand.

Thitikul fought windy situations all through the afternoon to earn her 68.

Seven gamers shot three-under and are T-5 heading into spherical two, together with two-time main champions Brooke Henderson and Lydia Ko.

Making her skilled debut after a spectacular novice profession, Rose Zhang shot a two-under 70.

-PTI

Steady begin for Manu Gandas in Germany

Indian golfer Manu Gandas carded a fair par 72 that positioned him Tied-Twenty sixth on the Porsche European Open right here.

Gandas got here into the DP World Tour due to the strategic alliance with the India’s home PGTI Tour, the place he topped the rankings final 12 months.

Gandas, the lone Indian within the subject as Shubhankar Sharma took day off this week to follow for the Open subsequent month, had three birdies towards three bogeys. Gandas began from the primary with a birdie however he bogeyed second, fourth and eighth and turned in 2-over. Birdies on 14th and fifteenth saved the day for him as he turned in a card of even par. Germany’s Max Kieffer carded a 4 below par 69 to share the first-round lead as he staked an early declare to develop into the primary German winner on residence soil for 15 years.

Kieffer shared a one-stroke lead with Sweden’s Simon Forsström, who carded 5 birdies and a bogey to hitch the German on the high of the chief board.

-PTI