Gurkirat, Kunal lead Kolkata Juniors
The duo of Bibek Sardar and Md. Rohit sit tied for third placed with 78s while Udayajit Bhalotia is a further two strokes behind tied with Bishwam Ghosh for fifth.
Gurkirat and Kunal had contrasting starts to their rounds with Kunal hitting a birdie first up while Gurkirat dropped a stroke. A couple of bogeys later, Kunal took the turn at one-over 37 while Gurkirat having sinked a birdie 4 on the fourth hole, went out at three over 39 after a bogey on the seventh and a double on the ninth hole. Two bogeys and a birdie on the back nine helped Gurkirat card a 76, while Kunal hit two birdies but dropped five strokes including a double bogey 6 on the penultimate 17th hole to deny himself the sole lead.
The category C saw Souvik Nayak grab the bull by the horns with a brilliant 75, spoilt by an indifferent back nine on which he dropped four strokes. He leads Kaushal Bagrodia and Aroush Tagore by a massive fourteen strokes. Joysurjo Dey is fourth a further two strokes behind at 91 and Pinku Das in fifth at 92.
With a round of 90, Garv Lakhmani leads Arkan Basu by a stroke in the category D boys, while it is a tie for the third place between Manhar Bajoria and Suveer Kapoor a further stroke behind.
In the Girls’ event, Siddhi Kapoor leads Shushnata Deb by twelve strokes after a well rounded ten-over par 82. Chitrangada Singh after carding an 88 leads Smriti Bhargav by eight strokes. It is much closer in category D with Karishma Samadder leading Sinjini Mukherjee by four strokes with a card of 102.
Top Scores (end of first round):
Boys Category A:
76 Gurkirat Singh, Kunal Naidu; 78 Bibek Sardar, Md Rohit; 80 Udayjit Bhalotia, Bishwam Ghosh; 81 Nasim Ali; 82 Manish Rajak, Karan Verma, Anmol Mahajan; 84 Gurshaan Singh Grewal
Boys Category B:
85 Devansh Chadha, Aryan Agarwal; 86 Shaurya Ekka; 87 Rajib Ali; 89 Abhikanks Basu; 91 Tapas Sardar
Boys Category C:
75 Souvik Nayak; 89 Kaushal Bagrodia, Aroush Tagore; 91 Joysurjo Dey; 92 Pinku Das; 93 Arnav Sharma; 95 Biren Kumar
Boys Category D:
90 Garv Lakhmani; 91 Arkan Basu; 92 Manhar Bajoria, Suveer Kapoor; 101 Rahul Datta; 106 Kabir Mehta; 109 Rakshik Basu
Girls:
Category A&B: 82 Siddhi Kapoor; 94 Shushnata Deb (B); 99 Adreeja Ghosh
Category C: 88 Chitrangada Singh; 96 Smriti Bhargav; 125 Vishi Agarwal
Category D: 102 Karishma Samadder; 106 Sinjini Mukherjee; 126 Tarushi Jain, Fizza Ali
Category E:
43 Rishi Biswas; 48 Anshul Mishra; 49 Aditya Khaitan; 50 Anamika Chakravarty, Prashant Agarwal
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