Gurugram, March 28
Shubhankar Sharma emerged as the best Indian at tied-7th, lying two shots off the lead at the end of the first round of the Indian Open.
Sharma was 5-under through 14 holes and looked set for a share of the lead with Stephen Gallacher, who finished half an hour earlier. But, Sharma ran into back-to-back bogeys and finished with a 69, which he said was “still a decent start” on this course. Gallacher and Julian Suri shared the first round lead with rounds of 67 each.
Gallacher shot a 5-under 67 in the morning and that effort was equalled by Suri with the same number in the afternoon. “I missed a couple of key putts on my front nine. Made a silly mistake on the sixth and seventh, but apart from those holes, I am pretty happy with how I finished,” Sharma said. Speaking about his eagle on the fourth, which was his 13th holes, he said, “I hit it decent but not quite how I wanted to execute it. I ended up with a decent lie, so I was lucky with where it ended up and hit it close enough (six feet) to make an eagle,” he added.
The next best Indian after Sharma was Rahil Gangjee (70) at tied-16th, while OM Prakash Chouhan (71) was tied-28th. Gaganjeet Bhullar and Rashid Khan shot 72 each to be tied-46th.
SSP Chawrasia and Shiv Kapur with 74 each were tied-76th and Anirban Lahiri (77) was way down in 107th, needing a low second round to make the cut. Gallacher’s card included six birdies, one bogey and double and a closing eagle, while Suri had seven birdies and a bogey on either side of the course. —PTI
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