India Legends championship: Jeev, Jyoti make strong starts

Greater Noida, August 30

Tournament host Jeev Milkha Singh and fellow Legends Tour regular Jyoti Randhawa shared third place as the best-placed Indians after Day One of the India Legends Championship at the Jaypee Greens Golf Course here on Friday.

Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva was alongside Singh and Randhawa on 4 under-par 68, three strokes behind event leader Joakim Haeggman, who fired home eight birdies against one bogey to sign off for a 7-under 65 card at the inaugural USD 500,000 HSBC India Legends Championship co-sanctioned by the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI).

Clark Dennis of the US, leader for much of the first morning was overhauled by Haeggman after setting the clubhouse total of 5-under 67 playing alongside Randhawa (68) and South Africa’s Keith Horne (72), who is currently ninth on the Legends Tour Order of Merit. Legends Tour Qualifying School winner Randhawa started shakily, dropping three shots against one birdie before the turn. The 52-year-old sparked to life on the second nine, firing an astonishing sequence of birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie-birdie to pick up six strokes in the five-hole stretch.