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Pune: Manu Gandas reserved the best for the last as he shot a blemish free 4-under par 68 in the final round to capture the IGU All India Junior Golf Championship title that culminated at the par-72 Oxford Golf and Country Club here on Friday. The Delhi lad finished the tournament with an impressive total of 10-under par 278 in the top category, four shots ahead of strong challenger Viraj Madappa who signed off with a 1-under par 71.<\/p>\n
Feroz Singh Garewal finished a distant third at 287 while Piyush Sangwan was fourth at 291. Tapendra Ghai finished fifth at 296 while Shubham Narain was sixth at 297.<\/p>\n
Karandeep Kochar won the title in Catgeory B with a four-day total of 304 with Kartik Sharma and Arjun Prasad sharing the bridesmaid\u2019s position at 306. Pratheek Nagaprasad was fourth at 312 while Bhav Sharma was fifth at 315.\n<\/p>\n
Manu who began the final round with a one-shot lead, played some flawless golf. Although he may have missed a couple of birdie
opportunities, he did well to stay out of danger. After a par start, Manu fired his first birdie on the par-4 second and repeated the feat
on the par-5 fourth and the tough par-4 sixth before taking the turn at 3-under. Viraj meanwhile did try to make a go of it when he fired
three birdies on his front nine but ended up losing a shot as well which widened the lead to two shots after the first nine.<\/p>\n
Manu maintained a clean slate while saving a stroke on the par-5 11th to finish the day at 4-under. Viraj who took the aggressive route met
with mixed results. A double on the 11th and a bogey on the 13th seriously dented his chances of a comeback. Consecutive birdies on the
14th and 15th only narrowed the lead but could not win him the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am elated,\u201d said Manu after the victory. \u201cI played to my game plan of keeping the ball in play. I sensed the victory on the 11th hole
where I went ahead y five shots,\u201d said the winner. \u201cI am thankful to my parents who have supported me throughout my golf career,\u201d said the
17-year-old.<\/p>\n
Category A & B<\/strong><\/p>\n 278 Manu Gandas (73, 69, 68, 68); 282 Viraj Madappa (71, 70, 70, 71); Category B<\/strong><\/p>\n 304 Karandeep Kochar (78, 76, 76, 74); 306 Kartik Sharma (76, 79, 79, Feroz Singh Garewal finished a distant third at 287 while Piyush Sangwan was fourth at 291. Tapendra Ghai finished fifth at 296 while Shubham Narain was sixth at 297.<\/p>\n Karandeep Kochar won the title in Catgeory B with a four-day total of 304 with Kartik Sharma and Arjun Prasad sharing the bridesmaid\u2019s position at 306. Pratheek Nagaprasad was fourth at 312 while Bhav Sharma was fifth at 315.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n
287 Feroz Singh Garewal (73, 72, 69, 73); 291 Piyush Sangwan (74, 71,
71, 75); 296 Tapendra Ghai (78, 74, 71, 73); 297 Shubham Narain (76,
73, 73, 75); 299 Varun Parikh (77, 75, 76, 71); 300 Rohan Dhole Patil
(77, 74, 74, 75); 302 Jairaj Singh Sandhu (76, 74, 75, 77); 303 Viren
Thapar (81, 76, 73, 73), Yuvraj Sandhu (73, 75, 78, 77)<\/p>\n
72), Arjun Prasad (75, 75, 78, 78); 312 Pratheek Nagaprasad (78, 77,
78, 79); 315 Bhav Sharma (79, 79, 81, 76); 316 Shreyas Chandra (77,
80, 79, 80); 321 Karan Pratap Singh (78, 81, 85, 77); 322 Saarthak
Chhibber (81, 78, 85, 78); 323 Udayjit Bhalotia (80, 79, 82, 82); 325
Arjun Puri (78, 83, 82, 82).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pune: Manu Gandas reserved the best for the last as he shot a blemish free 4-under par 68 in the final round to capture the IGU All India Junior Golf Championship title that culminated at the par-72 Oxford Golf and Country Club here on Friday. The Delhi lad finished the tournament with an impressive total of 10-under par 278 in the top category, four shots ahead of strong challenger Viraj Madappa who signed off with a 1-under par 71.<\/p>\n