Gurkirat Singh leads Tata Steel Royal Juniors Challenge 2014

RCGC’s very own Nishkarsh Sachdeva trails the leader after carding a five-over 77 followed by duo of Jamshedpur’s Rohit Kumar Bouri and Hassan Rahman Khandokar, who leads Category B, a further two strokes behind at seven-over 79. 

 

A quartet of players is a stroke behind on eight-over 80 including Category B lads Devansh Chadha and Rohil Chokhany who trail Hassan by one stroke.

 

17 year old Gurkirat was on song from the start, when he rolled in a birdie putt on the Par 4 1st hole. A dropped stroke on the 3rd brought him back to even-par before he made consecutive birdies to go two-under for the day through 5 holes. He back to even-par when he made mistakes on the 6th and 7th holes for a bogey each and went out after a front nine 36. The Tolly golfer began the back nine with another birdie on the 10th but another set of bogeys on the 13th, 14th and 17th had him come in at a gross of two-over 74 and lead by 3 strokes at the end of round 1.

 

Sandeep Kumar Yadav who leads familiar foe Rajib Ali by two strokes by carding three-over 75 again dominates Category C. Category D is led by 11-year-old Kaushal Bagrodia (83) who is in pole position to win the Category as Rakshik Basu, in second place is ten strokes behind followed by Order of Merit leader, Arav Sanghavi (94).

 

The competition amongst girls is between Anisha Agarwalla, who shot a seventeen-over 89 and leads by six strokes and Susnata Deb (95).

 

Top Scores (after 18 holes):

 

Category A & B:

 

74 Gurkirat Singh, Tutul Ali; 77 Nishkarsh Sachdeva; 79 Rohit Kumar Bouri, Hassan Rahman Khandokar (B), Mohan Sardar; 80 Devansh Chadha (B), Udayjit Bhalotia, Rohil Chokhany, Bibek Sardar (B); 81 Kunal Naidu

 

Category C:

 

75 Sandeep Kumar Yadav; 77 Rajib Ali; 86 Abhikanks Basu; 95 Divij Sehgal; 97 Bappa Mondal

 

Category D:

 

83 Kaushal Bagrodia; 93 Rakshik Basu; 94 Arav Shanghavi

 

Girls –Category A & B:

 

89 Anisha Agarwalla; 95 Susnata Deb (B); 108 Yashodhara Bhalotia (B); 132 Vanshika Agarwal

 

Category E:

 

43_Garv Lakhmani, 44_Manhar Bajoria, 46_ Gurmehr Singh Bindra