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Digboi, Assam: Twenty-four-year-old Kapil Kumar of Delhi shot a brilliant six-under-66 at the historic Digboi Golf Links to take the opening round honours at the IndianOil Servo Masters Golf 2016.<\/p>\nDigboi, Assam: Twenty-four-year-old Kapil Kumar of Delhi shot a brilliant six-under-66 at the historic Digboi Golf Links to take the opening round honours at the IndianOil Servo Masters Golf 2016.<\/p>\n
Kapil’s cousin Honey Baisoya of Delhi, the winner of last week’s event in Shillong, Bengaluru’s Udayan Mane, Gurgaon-based Manu Gandas, Chandigarh’s Feroz Singh Garewal and Noida’s Amardip Sinh Malik were among the five golfers bunched together in second place at five-under-67.<\/p>\n
The 17th edition of the tournament was inaugurated on Wednesday morning amidst much fanfare by Mr. H S Dutta, General Manager (TS&HSE), AOD and Mr. Dipankar Ray, Executive Director, IndianOil AOD. Mr. Dutta and Mr. Ray’s ceremonial tee-off was followed by the release of balloons. Mr. Dutta and Mr. Ray also planted trees on the course during the inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Kapil Kumar, who is still in the process of recovering from a serious wrist injury, displayed some excellent ball-striking on Wednesday to consistently land it within five feet of the pin and as a result put together seven birdies against a lone bogey. One of the highlights of his round was the drive to the green on the par-4 third.<\/p>\n
Kapil, the son of current professional Gast Ram, said, “I’ve had some issues with my wrist injury due to which I had to miss three events earlier this year. But my game is now getting better with each event.<\/p>\n
“The Digboi Golf Links is playing better than ever before. The greens are in great shape. I set up many birdie opportunities for myself today with some accurate hitting.<\/p>\n
“I’m in 27th place in the Rolex Ranking at the moment and would ideally like to get into the top-20 after a good week here.”<\/p>\n
Honey Baisoya, the winner from last week, continued his rich vein of form. Honey, who had posted a four-under on the final day to win last week’s event in Shillong, came up with a five-under in Digboi on Wednesday. The highlight of Baisoya’s round was the drive on the par-4 14th that almost resulted in a hole-in-one. His drive lipped out before he tapped-in for eagle.<\/p>\n
“I feel I have the momentum from last week. It’s now about carrying it forward. I was in trouble on a couple of occasions early in the round but I managed some good recoveries. I’m the highest-ranked player here this week, so it’s a good opportunity to rise up further in the rankings with a good finish,” said Baisoya, currently placed fifth in the Rolex Ranking.<\/p>\n
Manu Gandas also fired a 67 thanks to some long birdie conversions through the day. He made a good come back after a bogey and a double-bogey on his first four holes.<\/p>\n
Udayan Mane, Amardip Sinh Malik and Feroz Singh Garewal also posted scores of 67 to take a share of second place.<\/p>\n
Lucknow’s Sanjay Kumar, Noida’s Vikrant Chopra and Shamim Khan of Delhi were in joint seventh place at four-under-68.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Shankar Das of Kolkata carded a 73 to be tied 28th.<\/p>\n
Deven Bhumij returned a 74 to be the highest-placed local professional in tied 35th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Digboi, Assam: Twenty-four-year-old Kapil Kumar of Delhi shot a brilliant six-under-66 at the historic Digboi Golf Links to take the opening round honours at the IndianOil Servo Masters Golf 2016.<\/p>\n
Kapil’s cousin Honey Baisoya of Delhi, the winner of last week’s event in Shillong, Bengaluru’s Udayan Mane, Gurgaon-based Manu Gandas, Chandigarh’s Feroz Singh Garewal and Noida’s Amardip Sinh Malik were among the five golfers bunched together in second place at five-under-67.<\/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":[12385,12943,466,18925,7258],"class_list":["post-30011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-digboi-golf-links","tag-golf-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-indianoil-servo-masters-golf","tag-kapil-kumar"],"yoast_head":"\n