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Colombo: Local favourite Mithun Perera returned a sizzling eight-under-63 at the Royal Colombo Golf Club to take the opening round lead at the Standard Chartered Open 2014, an event sanctioned by the PGTI. Nepal\u2019s Shivaram Shrestha and India\u2019s Karan Vasudeva carded scores of six-under-65 to be placed joint second.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Mithun Perera went on a birdie-blitz on his first-nine making six birdies. He then picked up an eagle on the second to move to eight-under for the day. Perera made bogey-birdie on the sixth and seventh to close the day on top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
Mithun said, \u201cThe playing conditions are good. I\u2019m very pleased with this effort as it sets me up for the remainder of the tournament. I\u2019m very confident of doing well here and look forward to the next three rounds.<\/p>\n
Shivaram Shrestha enjoyed a bogey-free round of six-under-65 to be two shots behind the leader.<\/p>\n
Shrestha said, \u201cI enjoyed my hitting today and thankfully my putter was also hot. I converted
some long putts to gain birdies on the back-nine. It was hot today but the playing conditions were great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karan Vasudeva also had an outstanding start of the tournament and was the highest-placed Indian at joint second. Vasudeva had an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys in his round of six-under-65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Colombo: Local favourite Mithun Perera returned a sizzling eight-under-63 at the Royal Colombo Golf Club to take the opening round lead at the Standard Chartered Open 2014, an event sanctioned by the PGTI. Nepal\u2019s Shivaram Shrestha and India\u2019s Karan Vasudeva carded scores of six-under-65 to be placed joint second.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Mithun Perera went on a birdie-blitz on his first-nine making six birdies. He then picked up an eagle on the second to move to eight-under for the day. Perera made bogey-birdie on the sixth and seventh to close the day on top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
Mithun said, \u201cThe playing conditions are good. I\u2019m very pleased with this effort as it sets me up for the remainder of the tournament. I\u2019m very confident of doing well here and look forward to the next three rounds.<\/p>\n
Shivaram Shrestha enjoyed a bogey-free round of six-under-65 to be two shots behind the leader.<\/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-19356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n