City’s Karandeep at tied 7th in golf tournament

handigarh’s Karandeep Kochhar was placed at tied-7th position, while Sri Lankan N Thangaraja and Greater Noida’s Saptak Talwar put up scores of 5-under 67 to hold the joint lead in round one of the Rs 1.5 crore Adani Invitational Golf Championship at the Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort.

Another Chandigarh lad Yuvraj Sandhu, along with Shaurya Bhattacharya, both winners this season, were in tied 10th place at 70 after the opening round. Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow, Delhi golfer Arjun Prasad, Gurugram’s Sunhit Bishnoi and Bangladeshi Md Somrat Sikdar were bunched in tied third place with identical scores of 4-under 68.

N Thangaraja, a winner on the PGTI last month, went bogey-free on day one. He scored two birdies on the front-nine, courtesy a tap-in and a 30-feet conversion. Thanga then began the back-nine with consecutive birdies on the 10th and 11th, landing his approaches from 130 yards to within five feet on both occasions. He added his final birdie of the day on the 14th.