By Rahul Banerji
Arshvant Srivastava and Guntas Kaur Sandhu returned the two best performances of the sixth and final leg of the US Kids Golf India North Tour.
Guntas, who carded a stunning 64 in the fifth leg followed up with 7-under 65 that produced another big win for the Chandigarh youngster at the Classic Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon.
It was her fourth win in as many starts and overall she finished on the top in the category.
Arshvant, whose birdie-birdie finish in the fifth leg earned him a podium finish despite an eye infection, showed that he has fully recovered from a hand injury also.
He birdied three times on either side of the turn at the Classic course against two bogies for a 4 under par 68. It set up his second win of the season and earned valuable points as this was also the Tour Championship and carried double points.
Arshvant is now second in the standings behind Prince Bainsla who finished runner-up in the sixth leg.
With three wins and two second places, Bainsla topped the overall points position in Boys 13-14. Arshvant had two wins, one second and one third in six events.
Stellar season
Amaira Gulati (32, 4-under) was one of the stars in the girls events and closed the season with her fifth win of the year.
Gairat Kaur Kahlon (35, 1-under) was second. The win also meant Amaira won the Overall Category by a handy margin.
Nihal Cheema (3-under 33) dominated the Boys 6 section as he has done this season with four wins in four starts, while Zorawar Singh Chahal completed a clean sweep of all six events in the Boys 7 group.
Kabir Goyal reigned supreme among Boys 8 with a 37 that gave him a fourth win, but he was taken to a play-off by Ojas Saraswat. Divjot Gupta, who won the first two legs was third in the sixth leg.
Title treble
Rudar Gupta won the Boys 9, while in the Boys 10, Sidhhant Sharma took his third title in a row with a 69 and topped the category for the season.
Raajveer Surri won his first title of the season after being in the top three in each of his previous five starts. It helped him win the overall title and he also avenged the fifth leg defeat to Vidit Aggarwal in Boys 11.
Danish Verma, who lost to Chaitanya Pandey in a play-off in the fifth leg made up with a six-shot win in the final leg to win the overall top spot in the age group.
Manyaveer Bhadoo won the Boys 15-18 section again.
Aanya Dandriyal (Girls 9-10), Guntas Kaur Sandhu (Girls 11-12) and Ananyaa Sood (Girls 13-14) won back-to-back titles.
Sixth and final leg results
Boys 6 (9 holes): 1. Nihal Cheema (Chandigarh, 33); 2. 3. Ranveer Baloria (Delhi, 39), 3. Siddhik Chaturvedi (Noida, 48);
Boys 7 (9 holes): 1. Zorawar Singh Chahal (Mohali, 39); 2. Samar Singh (Gurgaon, 42); 3. Aryaan Mittal (Delhi, 49)
Boys 8 (9 holes): 1. Kabir Goyal (Noida, 37) won in play-off; 2. Ojas Saraswat (Mohali, 37); 3.. Divjot Gupta (Jalandhar, 38)
Boys 9: 1. Rudar Gupta (Jalandhar, 76)
Boys 10: 1. Siddhant Sharma (Faridabad, 69); 2. Arnav Kumar (Jalandhar, 78); 3. Krishnav Gupta (Delhi, 79).
Boys 11: 1. Raajveer Surri (Noida, 75); 2. Vidit Aggarwal (Delhi, 77); 3. Aryaveer Singh Grewal (Mohali, 82)
Boys 12: 1. Danish Verma (Ludhiana, 72); 2. 1. Chaitanya Pandey (Delhi, 78); 3. Devvrat Singh Rajawat (Jaipur, 81)
Boys 13-14: 1. Arshvant Srivastava (Noida, 68); 2. Prince Bainsla (Haryana, 73); T3. Ayan Dubey (Noida, 79) and Aryaveer Lamba (Delhi, 79)
Boys 15-18: 1. Manyaveer Bhadoo (Chandigarh, 74); 2. Zorawar Randhawa (Delhi, 76); 3. Aftab Singh. Bakshi (Delhi, 83).
Girls 8 (9 holes): 1. Amaira Gulati (Lucknow, 32); 2. Gairat Kaur Kahlon (Mohali, 35); 3. Naaysha S. Sinha (Noida, 41)
Girls 9-10: 1. Aanya Dandriyal (Greater Noida, 75)
Girls 11-12: 1. Guntas Kaur Sandhu (Chandigarh, 65); 2. Rabab Kahlon (Mohali, 75); 3. Shambhavi Chaturvedi (Noida, 77)
Girls 13-14: 1. Ananyaa Sood (Delhi, 74); 2. Anandita Baloria (Delhi, 76); 3. Parnika Sharma (Noida, 82);
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