Eight top-10s by India unit at U.S. Kids Golf Euro Championship

By Rahul Banerji

Eight top-10 finishers that included one title-winner was the haul of a 30-strong Indian contingent at the three-day U.S. Kids Golf European Championship that concluded in Scotland on Thursday.

As briefly reported, Chaitanya Pandey (30, 36, 36) was the best of the group with a two-shot triumph over South Africa’s Lee Foxcrost (33, 34, 37) in the boys 7 years and under event at the Longniddry Golf Course early on in the day.

Chaitanya’s day one 6-under round held him in good stead over the second and third days.

Competition in this group was probably the closest with the top six all bringing in under-par cards. The second Indian in the fray, Mumbai’s Priaan Kantawala (35, 36, 38) was seventh overall with a 1-over par total of 109.

Missing out

Lavanya Gupta, who was tied for the girls 11 years event lead after two days eventually finished third on level par 216 (69, 73, 74) as she was unable to consolidate on her first day’s 3-under card.

The UK’s Roisin Scanlon and Isabella Downey of the US had 2-under totals of 214 with the former declared winner.

Asara Sawhney (37, 39, 41) took a share of third place in the girls 9 years and in the 13-14 years event, Nishna Patel of Mumbai, Delhi’s Ragini Navet and Natasha Jaichandra of Bangalore were fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.

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In the boys 13 years, Gurgaon’s Jai Bahal (75, 74, 72) finished eighth with a 221 aggregate, five over par.

In the 9 years event, Arshvant Srivastava of Noida was tied 16^th and Jeev Milkha Singh’s son Harjai tied 30^th, and Noida-based Melbourne golfer Arav ‘Arrow’ Shah 10^th in the boys 11 years with a 10-over 226 aggregate.

Final placings and scores:

Boys 7 and under (9 holes par score 108, Longniddry Golf Course): 1. Chaitanya Pandey (Delhi) 102; 7. Priaan Kantawala (Mumbai) 109

Boys 8 years (9 holes par score 108, Longniddry Golf Course): T15. Rayan Sao (Kolkata) 114; 40. Devvrat Singh Rajawat (Jaipur) 126, 48. Suhaan Shah (Adalaj, Gujarat) 144; 51. Darshit Chaurasia (Kolkata) 146.

Boys 9 years (18 holes par score 216, Musselburgh Golf Club): T16. Arshvant Srivastava (Noida) 229; T30. Harjai Milkha Singh (Chandigarh) 241; T34. Neil Jolly (Mohali) 243; T41. Jay Handa (Noida) 247; 46. Sohang Har Kantor (Noida) 251.

Boys 10 years (18 holes par score 216, Craigielaw Golf Club): T30. Udai Aditya Middha (Delhi) 251; T38. Ranveer Mitroo (Delhi) 258; 43. Ayan Dubey (Noida) 268; 38. Anshh Dubey (Noida) 272.

Boys 11 years (18 holes par score 216, Craigielaw Golf Club): 10. Arav (Arrow) Shah of Melbourne (currently based out of Noida) 226; T52. Aditya Khaitan (Kolkata) 254; 69. Ivan Jolly (Mohali) 272.

Boys 13 years (18 holes par score 216, Royal Musselburgh Golf Club): 8. Jai Bahal (Gurgaon) 221; T24. Garv Lakshmani (Kolkata) 231.

Boys 15-18 years (18 holes par score 216, The Renaissance Club): T23. Kaushal Bagrodia (Kolkata) 241; T32. Ronav Patel (Mumbai) 230.

Girls 9 years (9 holes par score 108, Longniddry Golf Course): T3. Asara Sawhney (Delhi) 117; T12. Parnika Sharma (Noida) 123; T15. Rhea Kumar (Delhi) 125.

Girls 10 years (18 holes par score 216, Royal Musselburgh Golf Club): 24. Verushka Shah (Adalaj, Gujarat) 272.

Girls 11 years (18 holes par score 216, Royal Musselburgh Golf Club): 3. Lavanya Gupta (Delhi) 216; 16. Serena Khanna (Delhi) 247.

Girls 13-14 years (18 holes par score 216, Musselburgh Golf Club): 5. Nishna Patel (Mumbai) 219; 6. Ragini Navet (Delhi) 221; 7. Natasha Jaichandra (Bangalore) 224.

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