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Superb begin for Shubhankar, mendacity fifth in Dutch Open; Gandas forty fourth

Shubhankar Sharma shrugged off his current disappointments with a shocking 5-under 67 within the first spherical of the KLM Dutch Open, inserting him contained in the top-5 on the DP World Tour occasion.

Sharma’s spherical of 67 was his greatest in relation to par since his opening spherical of the 12 months, when he shot an identical 67 on the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship the place he completed tied-seventh.

In the primary spherical of the Dutch Open, the place he was T-14 a 12 months in the past, Sharma had 5 birdies, an eagle gap out from the bunker and two bogeys.

India’s different participant within the area, Manu Gandas (71) was T-44 with 4 birdies towards one bogey and one double bogey.

Sharma was 4 behind Spaniard Jorge Campillo who posted a superb nine-under opening spherical of 63 to take a three-stroke lead. The Spaniard, who gained his third DP World Tour title on the Magical Kenya Open, made essentially the most of calm morning situations to race into the lead at Bernardus Golf.

-PTI

Senior PGA Championship: Modest begin for Atwal as Harrington leads with 64

Arjun Atwal, of India, hits out of a bunker on the 18th gap in the course of the first spherical of the Senior PGA Championship golf event at Fields Ranch East in Frisco, Texas.| Photo Credit: AP

Arjun Atwal, enjoying his first senior Major and solely his second occasion on the Champions Tour, obtained off to a modest begin at one-over 73, which gave him a superb probability of constructing the weekend lower on the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship.

Atwal, the one Indian to have gained on the PGA Tour, was tied for 54th, however Jeev Milkha Singh, enjoying his third Senior Major, had a tough day as he shot 4-over 76 and was tied-113th. He will want a strong second spherical to make the lower.

Ireland’s Padraig Harrington, a three-time Major winner, obtained off to a sizzling begin with an 8-under 64 for a two-shot lead. The 51-year-old Irishman made the lower at Oak Hill on the PGA final week.

Atwal, who began on the again 9, birdied the twelfth however gave that achieve away on the thirteenth. A birdie on Par-5 18th noticed him flip in one-under. His subsequent holes had been action-packed as he didn't have a single par.

He birdied third, fourth and eighth and bogeyed first, second, fifth, sixth and seventh and closed with a par on the ninth. At 1-over he's on the lower line.

Jeev birdied first and seventh and bogeyed third and fourth to show in even par. On the again 9, he had 4 bogeys and no birdies.

Chasing Harrington was Senior PGA debutant Japan’s Katsumasa Miyamoto, who shot 66 with seven birdies and one bogey and he was second.

Brazilian Adilson da Silva had a 67 on his Senior PGA debut as did Phillip Price at PGA Frisco’s Fields Ranch East course.

Stewart Cink, who turned 50 lower than every week in the past, carded 68 and was alongside Miguel Angel Jimenez, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Bjorn, Alex Cejka, Charlie Wi and Richard Green in Tied-fifth.

Steve Stricker, who gained the season’s first PGA TOUR Champions main two weeks in the past along with his second consecutive Regions Tradition title, and defending champion Steven Alker shot 70. Justin Leonard, in search of his first PGA TOUR Champions title, shot 71.

Harrington was bogey-free and had 4 birdies on both facet of the course as he performed with Rocco Mediate (69).

Harrington gained 4 instances in his PGA Tour Champions debut season final 12 months, together with the U.S. Senior Open and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. He has 4 prime 10s in 5 begins this season.

There had been two aces. The first got here from Dave McNabb (78) on the 161-yard eighth gap, and Corey Pavin (71) had one on the 183-yard fourth.

-PTI