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Kolkata: The first ever India VS South Africa Golf Test Series being held at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club saw the South African team emerge victorious today with a score of 11.5. The hosts scored 4.5 at the inaugural event.<\/p>\nKolkata: The first ever India VS South Africa Golf Test Series being held at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club saw the South African team emerge victorious today with a score of 11.5. The hosts scored 4.5 at the inaugural event.<\/p>\n
The score for today stood at 6-2, but the three matches were extremely close affairs and saw South Africa eventually prevailing over India only in the final hole.<\/p>\n
An elated Jock Wellington, who is the Team Manager of South Africa, said, “Our boys have played really well, the course is set up quite long which I think is not suitable for the Indian seniors.”<\/p>\n
Playing immaculate golf, Gerlou Roux of the South African team scored 5-under in 12 holes, and was the player of the day.<\/p>\n
For the Indian team, Simarjeet Singh stood tall winning all his matches, scoring 3 out of the 4.5 points that the Indians garnered during the tournament.<\/p>\n
This Test Series in Kolkata will mark a new beginning for Indian Golf which will be the commencement of an annual reciprocal partnership between the IGU and South Africa Golf Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: The first ever India VS South Africa Golf Test Series being held at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club saw the South African team emerge victorious today with a score of 11.5. The hosts scored 4.5 at the inaugural event.<\/p>\n
The score for today stood at 6-2, but the three matches were extremely close affairs and saw South Africa eventually prevailing over India only in the final hole.<\/p>\n
An elated Jock Wellington, who is the Team Manager of South Africa, said, “Our boys have played really well, the course is set up quite long which I think is not suitable for the Indian seniors.”<\/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":[50],"tags":[12943,19160,466,976],"class_list":["post-30336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-golf-news","tag-india-vs-south-africa-golf-test-series","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-royal-calcutta-golf-club"],"yoast_head":"\n