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April 1st, New Delhi: Indian team represented by Kolkata’s Viraj Madappa and Noida’s Simarjeet Singh finished as the runner-up at the 5th Nepal Amateur Open Golf Championship held at Gokarna Forest Golf Club, Kathmandu. <\/p>\nApril 1st, New Delhi: Indian team represented by Kolkata’s Viraj Madappa and Noida’s Simarjeet Singh finished as the runner-up at the 5th Nepal Amateur Open Golf Championship held at Gokarna Forest Golf Club, Kathmandu. <\/p>\n
Both Madappa and Simarjeet who are ranked 2nd and 6th on the IGU amateur tour respectively, returned with a score of three-over 219 at an event, which was curtailed, to 27 holes due to incessant rain. Thailand’s Ekkarat Leksuwan and Sangchai Kaewcharoen won the event at one-over 217. In all, 51 golfers from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand and Nepal took part in the event.<\/p>\n
The three-day individual tournament that was played alongside; reduced to 45-holes saw 17-year-old Madappa finish fourth who came 2nd at Faldo Series in China a week ago. He carded a three-day total of three-over 183. Veteran Simarjeet who has won a number of amateur events in the past, finished eighth at six-over 186. The winner of the individual category was 16-year-old Thai Sangchai Kaewcharoen who shot five-under 175 for a total of 180.<\/p>\n
Madappa, who has shot into prominence at the international arena quite recently, says, “Playing in 10 degrees temperature in Kathmandu was a tough challenge as well as a great learning experience. I didn’t expect my score to be very good as it was raining heavily throughout the tournament. Somehow I managed to read the course well on the first day itself, which helped me put up a good score against top players from SAARC nations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 1st, New Delhi: Indian team represented by Kolkata’s Viraj Madappa and Noida’s Simarjeet Singh finished as the runner-up at the 5th Nepal Amateur Open Golf Championship held at Gokarna Forest Golf Club, Kathmandu. <\/p>\n
Both Madappa and Simarjeet who are ranked 2nd and 6th on the IGU amateur tour respectively, returned with a score of three-over 219 at an event, which was curtailed, to 27 holes due to incessant rain. Thailand’s Ekkarat Leksuwan and Sangchai Kaewcharoen won the event at one-over 217. In all, 51 golfers from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand and Nepal took part in the event.<\/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":[9],"tags":[11409,11408,11406,11410,11407,3802],"class_list":["post-21544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-ekkarat-leksuwan","tag-gokarna-forest-golf-club","tag-nepal-amateur-open-golf","tag-sangchai-kaewcharoen","tag-simarjeet-singh","tag-viraj-madappa"],"yoast_head":"\n