New Delhi: Earlier this year Rashid Khan came tantalisingly close to his maiden Asian Tour at the SAIL-SBI Open. It is something Rashid cannot forget easily. On Saturday, he played the Delhi Golf Course as if he was in a practice round, drilling birdies with amazing regularity. He had eight of them, plus an eagle on eighth but he also dropped three bogeys to end up with a card of 65.<\/p>\n
At 12-under 204 after rounds of 69, 70 and 65 he is lying third, five shots behind runaway leader Siddikur and one behind second place and fellow Indian, SSP Chowrasia.<\/p>\n
He was candid, when he said, \u201cI was playing aggressively. I need a really big score to win it. I\u2019ll give myself a good shot now. I lost here in a playoff at the SAIL-SBI Open to Anirban this year. I hope I don\u2019t go into a play-off again! Anything can happen in DGC. I hope I can get a good round again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with my round especially with how I started. I was down after six holes but I recovered really well. I had an eagle on eight. I hit a rescue off the tees and in my approach shot and had about a 15-feet eagle putt, which I holed,\u201d added a happy Rashid, who was part of the Indian amateur team that won a silver medal at the 2010 Asian Games in China.\n<\/p>\n
About know the DGC layout, he said, \u201cI have been playing here for years, so I know it very well. But when you are aggressive you can also drop shots. Today I knew I had to take a chance. All my birdies were really good. I just made six pars so I was really enjoying my round. I putted really good. Everything was good. I just had two bad tee shots (6th and 9thholes). Tomorrow will be the same and I will be aggressive again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Earlier this year Rashid Khan came tantalisingly close to his maiden Asian Tour at the SAIL-SBI Open. It is something Rashid cannot forget easily. On Saturday, he played the Delhi Golf Course as if he was in a practice round, drilling birdies with amazing regularity. He had eight of them, plus an eagle on eighth but he also dropped three bogeys to end up with a card of 65.<\/p>\n
At 12-under 204 after rounds of 69, 70 and 65 he is lying third, five shots behind runaway leader Siddikur and one behind second place and fellow Indian, SSP Chowrasia.<\/p>\n
He was candid, when he said, \u201cI was playing aggressively. I need a really big score to win it. I\u2019ll give myself a good shot now. I lost here in a playoff at the SAIL-SBI Open to Anirban this year. I hope I don\u2019t go into a play-off again! Anything can happen in DGC. I hope I can get a good round again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with my round especially with how I started. I was down after six holes but I recovered really well. I had an eagle on eight. I hit a rescue off the tees and in my approach shot and had about a 15-feet eagle putt, which I holed,\u201d added a happy Rashid, who was part of the Indian amateur team that won a silver medal at the 2010 Asian Games in China.<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n