{"id":25185,"date":"2016-01-17T04:44:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T04:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25185"},"modified":"2016-01-17T04:44:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T04:44:02","slug":"chikkarangappa-shubhankar-sharma-earn-asian-tour-cards-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25185","title":{"rendered":"Chikkarangappa &#038; Shubhankar Sharma earn Asian Tour cards for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/golf\/Chikka-S-of-India.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Chikka S of India\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" \/>Hua Hin, Thailand:<\/strong> The Indian duo of Chikkarangappa S and Shubhankar Sharma earned their Asian Tour cards for 2016 after they finished tied 11th and tied 25th respectively at the Asian Tour Q School Final Stage. The top 41 players in the field secured their cards on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Chikkarangappa (67-64-72-73), the 2015 Rolex Ranking champion, was the joint leader after round three, but he ended the week in tied 11th after his final round of two-over-73 that took his total to eight-under-276. Chikka thus finished five strokes behind the winner Yikeun Chang of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Chikka, who was 73rd in the 2015 Asian Tour Order of Merit, has now fought his way back onto the Asian Tour.<br \/>\n<br \/>Nineteen-year-old Shubhankar Sharma (68-69-71-72), a winner on the PGTI, secured his maiden Asian Tour card after firing a final round of one-over-72 that placed him tied 25th at four-under-280.<\/p>\n<p>The cut for the Asian Tour qualification was the top-40 and ties but 41 players eventually made it as seven players were tied for 35th at three-under-281.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other Indians in the fray, Honey Baisoya posted a brilliant 67 in the final round but fell short of the qualifying mark of three-under-281 by just two shots. He finished tied 49th.<\/p>\n<p>Manu Gandas shot 69, but he too occupied tied 49th at one-under-283 and as a result missed out on his card.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Bajaj (71) finished a further shot behind Baisoya and Gandas in tied 59th while Amardip Sinh Malik (79) finished 108th at 12-over-296.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/golf\/Chikka-S-of-India.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Chikka S of India\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" \/>Hua Hin, Thailand:<\/strong> The Indian duo of Chikkarangappa S and Shubhankar Sharma earned their Asian Tour cards for 2016 after they finished tied 11th and tied 25th respectively at the Asian Tour Q School Final Stage. The top 41 players in the field secured their cards on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Chikkarangappa (67-64-72-73), the 2015 Rolex Ranking champion, was the joint leader after round three, but he ended the week in tied 11th after his final round of two-over-73 that took his total to eight-under-276. Chikka thus finished five strokes behind the winner Yikeun Chang of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Chikka, who was 73rd in the 2015 Asian Tour Order of Merit, has now fought his way back onto the Asian Tour.<\/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":[9],"tags":[158,13775,11411,466,5930],"class_list":["post-25185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-asian-tour","tag-asian-tour-q-school-final-stage","tag-chikkarangappa-s","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-shubhankar-sharma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chikkarangappa &amp; Shubhankar Sharma earn Asian Tour cards for 2016 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25185\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chikkarangappa &amp; Shubhankar Sharma earn Asian Tour cards for 2016 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hua Hin, Thailand: The Indian duo of Chikkarangappa S and Shubhankar Sharma earned their Asian Tour cards for 2016 after they finished tied 11th and tied 25th respectively at the Asian Tour Q School Final Stage. 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