{"id":2081,"date":"2012-01-18T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T12:34:59","slug":"baisoya-bhandari-finish-at-top-in-strokeplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Baisoya, Bhandari finish at top in strokeplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chandigarh: <\/strong>Honey Baisoya, who has been in fine form this year  and local Chandigarh lad Raghav Bhandari, topped in the strokeplay  section of the All India Amateur Golf Championship at Chandigarh Golf  Club which came to an end on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari with rounds of 73 and 70 and Delhi golfer Baisoya with  71 and 72 totalled 143, while Udayan Mane shot 73 and 71 to tie for  third with the talented KHalin Hoshi of Bangalore. Joshi shot 73 and 71  as the top 32 qualifiers moved into the Matchplay segment, which will  decide the All India Amataeur champion at the 111th edition of the  championships.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending champion S Chikkarangappa, who  is gunning for the first-ever hat-trick of All India Amateur  championship title in more than\u00a0 80 year \u2013 the last was achieved by E J  Watts in 1930 \u2013 was tied 10th in strokeplay, alongside England\u2019s Jack  Colegate. Chikka shot 74 and 74 while Colegate had 75 and 73.<\/p>\n<p>On  the opening day Karan Taunk of Jamshedpur carded one-under 70 to take  one shot the lead in the opening round of stroke play, but he slipped to  tied 10th after a second round of 78.<\/p>\n<p>In the international team  championship played concurrently, India B with Honey Baisoya (71-72)  and Angad Cheema (72-75) topped the list at 290 while India A with  Chikka (73-74) and Khalon Joshi (73-71) were second at 292. One shot  behind at 293 was the English pair Colegate (75-73) and Curtis Griffiths  (75-70). Sri Lanka (296) finished fourth and Bangladesh (302) was  fifth.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening round of the Matchplay Chikka will however  have a tough opponent in Sidharth Semwal, who was 22nd with rounds of  83 and 74. Baisoya is drawn to meet Sandeep Sandhu and Bhandari will  meet Arshad Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Khalin Joshi who was tied third will take on  Jasjeet Singh and Udayan Mane will meet Shubhankar Sharma. An  interesting clash will be the one between Trishul Chinappa and Colegate.<\/p>\n<p>One  of the oldest amateur championships in the world, the All India Amateur  Championship started in 1892 and is run by the Indian Golf Union. It  has a 36-hole stroke play qualifying competition over the first two days  from which the leading 32 players proceed to the match play knockout  event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chandigarh: <\/strong>Honey Baisoya, who has been in fine form this year  and local Chandigarh lad Raghav Bhandari, topped in the strokeplay  section of the All India Amateur Golf Championship at Chandigarh Golf  Club which came to an end on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Baisoya, Bhandari finish at top in strokeplay - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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