Chugh (winner) and Himanshu Nagar (third) after the Northern leg of the RBG Champions Golf Development Tour at the Classic GCC recently. Image courtesy Romit Bose.
By Rahul Banerji
In the long-drawn fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and the gradual unlocking of activities, junior golf has taken something of a beating. But the picture is changing.
While the Indian Golf Union, which runs amateur golf, is still to resume its tournaments at any level, a few “private” players have taken up the slack.
While Faisal and Nonita Lall Qureshi’s Little Master Junior Golf Tour has been around for a while and the India leg of US Kids Golf is slated to tee off soon, for now it is Romit Bose’s RBG, in the business for over a decade, that has taken the plunge .
Tuesday will see the start of RBG’s Champions Golf Development Tour get under way at the Prestige Golfshire course just outside Bangalore with events to be played over 54 holes and carrying world ranking points.
The Eagleton course will play host to the second leg scheduled between November 25 and 27.
Competition will see juniors (7-12 years), teens (13-18) and amateurs (19-plus) in both boys’ and girls’ events.
Valuable wins
Winners in the junior and amateur categories stand to earn Global Junior Golf Ranking points and World Amateur Golf Ranking points respectively.
Earlier this month, RBG held its opening set of events, the Northern leg at the Classic Golf and Country Club near Gurgaon with a slew of solid performances over two rounds.
World teen champion Raghav Chugh won the Teen A boys title with a 5-under 139 at the Champions Autumn Classic, the two-day event held under strict Covid protocols.
There was no formal handover at the Classic course, and recipients had to pick up their respective sanitised trophies at the podium.
Hridika Vora of Mumbai won the Teen A girls event with a 9-over 153. Other winners included Siddhant Rekhi of Indiana University (153, college boys amateur, 19-23 years) and Arav D. Shah (140, Teen B boys).
Results
Amateur boys (19-23 years): Siddhant Rekhi (153), Yuvraajbir Sodhi (159).
Teen A boys (15-19 years): Raghav Chugh (139), Jai Bahl (142).
Teen B boys (13-14 years): Arav D. Shah (140), Vihaan Malhotra (157).
Category C boys (10-12 years): Kartik Singh (151), Vedant Banerjee Sodhi (155).
Category D boys (8-9 years): Chaitanya Pandey (143), Danish Verma (159).
Category E boys (under-7): Krishav Gupta (77), Siddhanth Sharma (83).
Teen A girls (15-19 years): Hridika Vora (153), Riya Yadav (162).
Teen B girls (12-14 years): Zara Anand (157), Srihita Mandava/Ragini Navet (160).
Category C girls (10-12 years): Samira Tomar (158).
Category D girls (8-9 years): Dalisha Chetry (88).
Overall: Raghav Chugh (139), Arav D. Shah (140), Jai Bahl (142), Chaitanya Pandey (143).
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