Mahreen, Adit, Kriti impress in final leg of US kids Golf India

By Rahul Banerji

Adit Veeramachaneni showed that he was a cut above the rest with a second successive four-under 68 to make a clean sweep for the season in the Boys 9 category of the US Kids Golf India series.

The Bangalore lad won the final event at the Classic Golf and Country Club with a fine card that had six birdies against two bogeys on Friday.

Another player to keep a win streak going despite strong competition was Chaitanya Pandey. In the sixth leg he went six-over 78 in the Boys 11 but still won.

Both Adit and Chaitanya won all six domestic events and the Indian Championship overcoming strong competition in their groups.

Two other players Jot Sarup Gupta (Boys 8) and Manyaveer Bhadoo (Boys 15-18) had little competition through the season as they won their sixth straight domestic title.

Jot Sarup also won the Indian Championship.

Impressive scores

Adit turned in an impressive series of scores through the six events. They included a stunning seven-under 65 at Golden Greens, two scores of 4-under 68 each in the last two legs at Classic and a 69 in the first leg.

He also shot an even par 72 in the second leg. The only time he went over par was at the fourth leg when he scored two-over 74.

At the Indian Championship, he had rounds of 73-75-71 and won by eight shots.

Gairat Kaur Kahlon finally managed to get the better of Amaira Gulati in the Girls Under 8, as she shot a one-over 37 to Amaira’s 38.

Amaira had won the first three legs and then skipped the fourth before winning the fifth. She also won the Indian Championship.

Another impressive performer among girls was Kriti Parekh from Coonoor, who also won the Indian Championship.

Playing in the Girls 11-12 section, Kriti, who won the first leg returned to win the fifth and sixth, while her strong rival Shambhavi Chaturvedi won the third, fourth and fifth legs.

Big margin

Kriti had an excellent two-over 74 beating Shambhavi by six shots in the final event.

Naina Kapoor, a consistent winner this year, won for the fifth time, as she beat the Indian Championship winner, Rabab Kahlon in the last event. Naina shot 74 to Rabab’s 75.

Mahreen Bhatia won for the fifth time in the season in the Girls 13-14 with an impressive two-over 74, her best score of the season.

Apart from Adit Veeramachaneni, two other players went under par. They were Divjot Gupta (one-under 35 in the Boys 7) and Ranvir Singh Dhupia (one-under 71 in the Boys 13-14).

After starting the season with a win, Dhupia closed it with another in one most hotly contested segments of the US Kids Golf India.

Dhupia was two clear of Bhavesh Nirwan, who also had a win this year and Udai Aditya Middha, who won twice in the second and fifth legs. He was third in the sixth.

Young star

Nihal Cheema, the star in the Under-6 category, who won the first four domestic events, added a fifth one as the series came to an end.

He impressed scorers with an even par 36 for his nine holes. Nihal had turned in one of the most impressive nine-hole rounds with a six-under 30 in the third leg.

In the Boys 10, Vidit Aggarwal won his second straight title as the series ended, but his big moment of the season came at the Indian Championship, which he won.

Sohang Kantor after being second twice earlier rounded off the year with two successive wins and the final one came with a card 6-over 78.

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