Late slip by Atwal lets Urs extend her lead at BGC event

By Rahul Banerji

Seher Atwal’s bid to catch overnight leader Pranavi Urs unravelled towards the end of a wet and rainy second round at the Bangalore Golf Club on Thursday.

After day two of the ninth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour in tough conditions, Pranavi had expanded her lead to three shots with a day to go.

Atwal, who started a shot behind Urs, caught the leader at the turn after the latter dropped two shots against one birdie.

At this stage, Seher was level with Pranavi on 2-under having picked up a shot herself and playing consistent golf thereafter.

On the back nine, Urs was steady with seven straight pars before bogeying her penultimate hole.

Atwal however dropped two shots by the 15^th hole and then double-bogeyed 17 to fall three behind the leader.

Urs carded a 2-over 71 for the day to be level par 138 for 36 holes while Seher was 4-over 73 to get to 3-over 141.

Hitaashee Bakshi with a 1-over 70 for the day rose to sole third, while Nayanika Sanga (69) had the best card and was fourth.

Bumpy start

Ironically, Nayanika started with a double bogey and bogey on the first two holes but then picked three shots thereafter to finish even par.

It was not a great second round for the newly-minted pro Sneha Singh, who followed up her first round 72 with a 75 and was fifth.

Gaurika Bishnoi (76-72) and Ananya Datar (74-74) were tied for sixth as Oviya Reddi (75-74), Afshan Fatima (74-75) and amateur Vidhatri Urs (73-76) were tied for eighth.

The cut came at 157 and 24 players, including four of the five amateurs who started, made it through.

Scores and round 3 tee times

8:40 am: Asmitha Sathish 157; Ishvari Prasanna 157; Millie Saroha 157

8:50 am: Geetika Ahuja 156; Heena Kang (A) 155; Anisha Agarwalla 153

9 am: Shweta Mansingh 153; Disha Kavery 152; Saaniya Sharma 152

9:15 am: Jyotsana Singh 151; Jasmine Shekar (A) 151; Gauri Karhade 150

9:25 am: Khushi Khanijau 150; Saanvi Somu (A) 150; Vidhatri Urs (A) 149

9:35 am: Afshan Fatima 149; Oviya Reddi 149; Ananya Datar 148

9:50 am: Gaurika Bishnoi 148; Sneha Singh 147; Nayanika Sanga 146

10 am: Hitaashee Bakshi 143; Seher Atwal 141; Pranavi Urs 138

Also read: Pranavi Urs is early leader in Hero pro tour event at BGC