By Rahul Banerji
Playing steady golf has been Amandeep Drall’s forte for some time even if it is yet to result in a win. That quality was to the fore on Wednesday in round one of the fourth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Bangalore Golf Club.
Three birdies over her last eight holes saw Amandeep take lead a two shot lead over the field after she had endured a rocky start.
Two over after the first eight holes, Amandeep managed to avoid any more bogeys and picked up three shots to finish on 1-under 69, the day’s only sub-par card.
Contrasting round
In sharp contrast, Vani Kapoor was two-under through the first eight holes but then went on to drop three shots to card a 1-over 71, two shots behind the leader.
Local amateur Asmitha Sathish had no birdies but dropped three shots for a round of 73.
Neha Tripathi (74) was fourth while Gursimar Badwal and Anousha Tripathi shared fifth place.
The second amateur in the field, Sneha Sharan, was seventh with a 76 while Pranavi Urs, winner of the last two events, has a rough start with one birdie against eight bogeys, three of them coming back-to-back.
Interestingly Pranavi won last week despite a card eight-over 80 in the third leg and will be hoping to make up over the next two rounds as she did last week.
Scores and tee times for Round 2
Tee 1
10 am : Siddhi Kapoor 78; Geetika Ahuja 78; Pranavi Urs 77
10:10 am : Khushi Khanijau 77; Oviya Reddi 77; Sneha Sharan (A) 76
10:20 am : Gursimar Badwal 75; Asmitha Sathish (A) 73; Neha Tripathi 74
10: am: Anousha Tripathi 75; Vani Kapoor 71; Amandeep Drall 69
Tee 9
10:20 am : Ananya Datar 78; Saaniya Sharma 79; Sonam Chugh 80
10:30 am: Ishvari Prasanna 80; Jyotsana Singh 80; Trimann Saluja 80
10:40 am: Gurjot Badwal 81; Afshan Fatima 81; Suchitra Ramesh 82
10:50 am: Anisha Agarwalla 82; Mehar Atwal 82; Tanirika Singh 84
Also read: Pranavi Urs makes a winning pro debut with third leg title
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