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Southport, England: Indian duo Anirban Lahiri and Shiv Kapur fell short in their attempt to make the weekend rounds at The Open on Friday.<\/p>\nSouthport, England: Indian duo Anirban Lahiri and Shiv Kapur fell short in their attempt to make the weekend rounds at The Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
Battling the cold, windy and rainy conditions, Lahiri and Kapur returned on matching three-over-par 73s at Royal Birkdale. Their two-day total of six-over-par 146 was a single shot outside the mark.<\/p>\n
Lahiri, the 2015 Asian Tour number one, made a poor club selection on the 18th hole, hitting a driver instead of a three-wood and saw his ball land in the fairway bunker which resulted in a disappointing bogey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked back at the two days that I played and all I see is I didn\u2019t make a putt. I had two one putts and hit 15 or 14 greens in these conditions. I just did not get the hang of the greens. It is very disappointing because I played so well this week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m putting badly but I really can\u2019t come to terms with the surface. It is not an excuse. It is on me and it is a terrible feeling to have. I\u2019ve just not been tuned in to the speeds on the greens. I\u2019ve been terrible on the putting surface and that\u2019s something I need to work on,\u201d added Lahiri.<\/p>\n
Kapur, making his third appearance at The Open, was disappointed to miss the weekend rounds but was pleased with his battling performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was brutal out there. First it was the wind then the rain and the wind switched on the back nine. All in all I hung quite tough and played pretty well. I made a couple of bogeys on the back but I fought back. Unfortunately it was one shot too many,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a day like today, you know everyone is battling. At the start of the day I figured even-par would be a good score and I tried to hang on but I had a bad stretch in the middle of the round,\u201d added Kapur.<\/p>\n
He believes the experience of playing at The Open will make him a better player. \u201cYou got to take all the positives that you can. I had one bad hole over two days and that\u2019s the difference between making the cut or not. I would love to come back and try again. This is a learning experience and I think this will make me a better golfer in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Southport, England: Indian duo Anirban Lahiri and Shiv Kapur fell short in their attempt to make the weekend rounds at The Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
Battling the cold, windy and rainy conditions, Lahiri and Kapur returned on matching three-over-par 73s at Royal Birkdale. Their two-day total of six-over-par 146 was a single shot outside the mark.<\/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":[1065,10690,6480,466,516,11578],"class_list":["post-35230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-anirban-lahiri","tag-golf","tag-indian-sports","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-shiv-kapur","tag-the-open"],"yoast_head":"\n