{"id":5521,"date":"2012-05-02T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:32:24","slug":"sub-junior-golf-gurkirat-emerges-overall-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=5521","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Junior golf: Gurkirat emerges overall champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/golf\/gurkirat-golf.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gurkirat\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Jamshedpur: <\/strong>Gurkirat Singh may be playing in a lower category but he played some brilliant golf to outshine his senior counterparts to emerge as the overall champion in the Boys Junior Category (A &amp; B) in the first leg of the Tata Steel IGU East Zone Sub Junior Tour which culminated at the Beldih Golf Club here on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Gurkirat submitted a card of 4-over 76 for a two-round total of 156 to nose ahead of overnight leader Sunit Chowrasia who settled for a bridesmaid finish at 157.<\/p>\n<p>Sunit had the distinction of finishing on top in Category A while Viraj Khanna finished second on a countback over Mohammed Imtiaz. Gurkirat also annexed the Category B honours with Udayjit Bhalotia and Yashwardhan Sarda finishing second and third respectively. Devansh Chadha was crowned the champion in Category C with Hashan Rahman finishing second. Sandeep Yadav emerged the winner in Category D while Rajib Ali was the runner-up. Kaushal Bagrodia won the Category E honours which was played over 18 holes.<\/p>\n<p>Gurkirat who belongs to the Royal Calcutta Golf Club in Kolkata, began in style making a birdie on the opening hole only to lose advantage on the very next hole. However, playing to 1-under in his last four holes on the front nine, he took the turn at 1-over. The back nine was a roller coaster ride for Gurkirat who made pars on the even and bogeys on the odd-numbered holes until he found his rhythm in the last three holes which he ended up with pars to win his maiden title on the IGU circuit.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to win the tournament,\u201d said the 14-year-old Gurkirat. \u2018I was attacking the pins and although I paid the penalty on some holes, the strategy did pay some rich dividends,\u201d said champion who dedicated his victory to his mother for supporting him in all his ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Category A<br \/>157 Sunit Chowrasia (79, 78); 161 Viraj Khanna (80, 81); 161 Md. Imtiaz (81, 80); 173 Sumant Lenka (91, 82); 174 Parwez Khan (86, 88); 195 Karan Bhuwalaka (96, 99)<br \/>Category B<br \/>156 Gurkirat Singh (80, 76); 172 Udayjit Bhalotia (88,84); 181 Yashvardhan Sarda (94, 87); 182 Zahed Khan (96, 86); 186 Kunal Naidu (99, 87)<br \/>Category C<br \/>167 Devansh Chadha (80, 87); 168 Hashan Rahman (82, 86); 172 Bibek Sardar (87, 85)<br \/> Category D<br \/>162 Sandeep Yadav (80, 82); 199 Rajib Ali (102, 97); 199 Abhikanks Basu (97, 102)<br \/>Category E<br \/>98 Kaushal Bagrodia (51, 47); 110 Md Rayyan Habib (56, 54); 121 Rakshik Basu (57, 64).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/golf\/gurkirat-golf.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gurkirat\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Jamshedpur: <\/strong>Gurkirat Singh may be playing in a lower category but he played some brilliant golf to outshine his senior counterparts to emerge as the overall champion in the Boys Junior Category (A &amp; B) in the first leg of the Tata Steel IGU East Zone Sub Junior Tour which culminated at the Beldih Golf Club here on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Gurkirat submitted a card of 4-over 76 for a two-round total of 156 to nose ahead of overnight leader Sunit Chowrasia who settled for a bridesmaid finish at 157.<\/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":[4174,4175,976,4154,4176],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-gurkirat-singh","tag-igu-east-zone-sub-junior-tour","tag-royal-calcutta-golf-club","tag-viraj-khanna","tag-yashwardhan-sarda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sub-Junior golf: Gurkirat emerges overall champion - 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=5521\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sub-Junior golf: Gurkirat emerges overall champion - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jamshedpur: Gurkirat Singh may be playing in a lower category but he played some brilliant golf to outshine his senior counterparts to emerge as the overall champion in the Boys Junior Category (A &amp; B) in the first leg of the Tata Steel IGU East Zone Sub Junior Tour which culminated at the Beldih Golf Club here on Wednesday. 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