Last Updated: March 01, 2023, 22:38 IST
Ahmedabad-based Anshul Patel and Patna’s Aman Raj fired an identical six-under 66 to emerge as joint leaders in the opening spherical on the Rs One crore Gujarat Open Golf Championship right here on Wednesday.
Rookie Makoto Iwasaki (68) of Japan was one shot behind the leaders in third place.
Playing on his dwelling course, Anshul, who started the 12 months with a top-10 on the Qualifying School to regain his PGTI card, was off to a cracking begin as he picked up 5 pictures on the back-nine.
He made two lengthy conversions and landed his strategy inside 4 ft for an eagle on the par-5 14th on the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club.
The 27-year-old then hit it out of bounds on the third that resulted in a double-bogey for him. He, nevertheless, greater than made up for the error on the third by including three extra birdies to his card.
Aman, a winner on the PGTI, had early jitters with bogeys on the second and third holes. He then rallied with eight birdies together with three on the final three holes. He made 5 conversions from a variety of 10 to fifteen ft.
Varun Parikh, one other native skilled, was tied ninth at 70 together with Khalin Joshi.
Among the distinguished names, Viraj Madappa (73) was tied thirty third, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (74) was tied forty fifth and Udayan Mane (76) was tied 72nd.
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