Green Gators score a decisive win in golf league

The Green Gators scored a decisive 5-2 victory over Canam Raptors during the ongoing Chandigarh Golf League at the Chandigarh Golf Club. The match-ups turned out to be in Gators’ favour and they made full use of that by winning both singles games, courtesy Rabbin Saini and Dilsher Sukhija. The two teams traded 6 and 4 wins with Sidhant Jain and Gurmehar Singh combining well again to register a 5 and 4 wins.

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Last year’s runners up Fairway Comets had another hard day out as Soaring Eagles staged a successful comeback after trailing in six of the seven games to square the match. The singles games were shared with one win a piece as were the fourball games. Bobby Sandhu won his game 6 and 5 for the Comets, while Dr Narinder Arora and Manvesh Sidhu won 4 and 3 to pull one back for the Eagles.

Pirates of the Greens tied with Netsmartz Tigers. GP Capt YS Sidhu opened the account for the Tigers with a 6 and 4 win and Varun Rao coming home from the 16th hole. The fourballs went the Pirates way as all games reaching the penultimate hole and three going all the way. Capt Amitpal Chahal and Gaurav Talwar combined well to win 2 and 1, as did Ashray Gakhar and Maj Gen KJS Thind for the Pirates. Partee Panthers had yet another squared match with games going to both teams in an alternate sequence. The first singles game was squared and Rabiya Gill won 4 and 3 for the Panthers. In the fourball games, SK Sharma and Col Nirpinder Bains carded a 5 and 4 victory for the Samurai while Asim Gupta and Rohit Mittal won 4 and 3 for the Panthers.