Punjab police lift team trophies, Tara Yadav of CRPF wins women’s title

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Ludhiana, September 18

Hosts, Punjab Police, stamped its superiority lifting the team championship trophies in both team events, gross as well as net, in the 19th All-India Police Golf Tournament, which concluded at the Ranjitgarh Golf Club course on the Punjab Police Academy campus at Phillaur near here today.

The two-member Punjab Police team of SK Sharma, DGP, Home Guards and Director, PPA, Phillaur and Rupinder Singh, SSP Vigilance, won the team championship on gross score of 320. On net score, the Punjab Police team of Ishwar Singh and B Chandershekhar won the team championship with an aggregate score of 286.

In the individual event, SK Sharma was again winner on net score of 135, followed by Prithvi Raj from Himachal Pradesh police as thr first runner-up with a score of 136, while Nitin Aggarwal from Kerala with a score of 139 finished as second runner-up.

On gross score, B Chandershekhar from Punjab police won the title with a score of 151, followed by his mate Rupinder Singh, who secured the second position with 155 score, whereas RK Srivastava, representing BSF with 157 score, had to content with the third position.

In women’s section, as expected, the title was bagged by Tara Yadav of the CRPF, who had won all titles since 2008. She pushed her only rival, Gurpreet Deo of Punjab Police to the second spot. In the team event on gross score, the first runner-up position was won by RS Rathore and RK Srivastava of the BSF with a total 322 points, while the second runner-up position went to the duo BS Kaurav and MS Deo, also of the BSF, with the same score, but Rathore-Srivastava duo won on the basis of better scores on the back-nine holes.

On net score in the team event, Vivek Bhandari and Brig Surendra Mehta of the NSG with 291 points finished as runners-up, while Garib Dass and Dilbagh Singh of Jammu and Kashmir Police with 301 points secured the third position. Punjab Minister for Finance Parminder Singh Dhindsa gave away prizes to the winners.