Bogey-free Ridhima Dilawari sets round one pace at Zion Hills

Already a three-time winner in the 2026 Hero WPGT season, Ridhima Dilawari was error-free in round one of the Zion Hills leg of the tour on Wednesday. Image courtesy WGAI.

By Rahul Banerji

Ridhima Dilawari, who won three of the first six events this season, fired a bogey free opening round to lead the tenth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Zion Hills Golf County at Kolar near Bangalore on Wednesday. 

Ridhima, who tied for eighth and ninth places in the last two legs, led by one stroke on 4 under par 68 over last week’s winner Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall and Vidhatri Urs, the WGAI said. 

Ridhima, who is working towards returning to the Ladies European Tour and finding form ahead of the Hero Women’s Indian Open later this year, opened with a birdie before parring the next eight. 

She added further gains on holes 10, 13 and 14 and closed with pars on the last four.

Vani, a five-time winner last year, had seven birdies but she also gave away two bogeys and a double bogey in her round of 69. 

Vidhatri, who had three wins in a row in 2024, her rookie pro season, had six birdies against three bogeys for her 69, while Amandeep had five birdies against back-to-back bogeys on the front nine.

Sole holder

Saanvi Somu, who has been knocking on the door of her first win on the Tour, first as an amateur and now as a pro, was in sole fifth place on 1 under 71 that had one bogey on the front nine and two birdies on the back nine.

Ananya Datar and Kashika Misra carded even par 72s to share sixth place, even as Mannat Brar and Riya Jadon were tied for eighth on 1 over 73s.

Prakruthi Sastry, Jasmine Shekar, Shagun Narain, Neha Tripathi and amateurs Ananthi Vivek and Ananyaa Sood shared 10^th place on 2 over 74. Ananthi plays at Zion Hills and trains with Tarun Sardesai here.

Further behind were Tvesa Malik (75) in tied 16^th alongside young Lavanya Jadon.

Scores and round 2 tee times

Tee 1

7:30: am: Durga Nittur 77, Ceerat Kang (A) 76, Heena Kang 76;

7:40: am: Karishma Govind, 76, Anvvi Dahhiya 76, Ketaki Sood 76;

7:50: am: Keerthana Rajeev (A) 76, Lavanya Jadon 75, Tvesa Malik 75;

8: am: Ananthi Vivek (A) 74, Neha Tripathi 74, Shagun Narain 74;

8:15: am: Ananyaa Sood (A) 74, Jasmine Shekar 74, Prakruthi Sastry 74;

8:25: am: Riya Jadon 73, Mannat Brar 73, Kashika Misra 72;

8:35: am: Ananya Datar 72, Saanvi Somu 71, Vidhatri Urs 69;

8:45: am: Vani Kapoor 69, Amandeep Drall 69, Ridhima Dilawari 68.

Tee 10

7:30: am: Yaalisai Verma 77, Priya Kumari (A) 77, Jahnavi Prakhya 77;

7:40: am: Gourabi Bhowmick 77, Snigdha Goswami 78, Khushi Khanijau 78;

7:50: am: Shrestha Shukla 78, Tanishka Prithvi (A) 78, Jasmandeep Kaur 78;

8:05: am: Anvitha Narender 78, Anaggha Venkatesh 78, Rhea Jha 78;

8:15: am: Prarthana Khanna 79, Eti Chaudhary 79, Jahaanvie Walia 79;

8:25: am: Anuradha Chaudhari (A) 79, Seher Atwal 80, Ananya Garg 81;

8:40: am: Sneha Singh 81, Rhea Purvi 81, Smriti Bhargav 82;

8:50: am: Oviya Reddi 82, Alysha Dutt (A) 82, Ayushi Dutta 83;

9 am: Ravjot Dosanjh 84, Shweta Mansingh 86, Jia Kochhar 87.

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