{"id":587,"date":"2011-11-01T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-11-01T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:08:45","slug":"anirban-hopes-to-defend-his-bilt-open-crown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Anirban hopes to defend his Bilt open crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greater Noida:<\/strong> Defending Champion Anirban Lahiri hopes to put up a fierce competition and hopes to defend his Bilt Open crown which gets underway at the Jaypee Greens Golf Resort from tomorrow. Bilt Open which returned back to NCR would see top Indian lining up for the 10 mn tournament including Jyoti Randhawa, Himmat Rai, Rashid Khan and the leader of PGTI order of merit Mukesh Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course in is good shape and I am looking for a good week ahead. I have done really good on this course in earlier occasions and hope to carry on that momentum. There are lot birdie scoring opportunities and like it that way,\u201d said the two times Bilt Open winner.<\/p>\n<p>Lahiri who won the Bilt Open consecutively for 2009 and 2010 considers this course as his second home course and feels it to be great hunting ground for long hitters. \u201cI played 18 rounds today and find the course in great shape. But somehow the course appears to be little softer and hence is expected to play longer,\u201d added Lahiri, the winner of 2011 Panasonic Open.<\/p>\n<p>Lahiri however feels that even though one can drive freely in this course, one would actually need to strategize the game before playing certain holes. \u201cIt\u2019s a kind of course that you will find the world over but there is certain way to play at that course and if you fall two-three shots back you can go all guns blazing, fire at every flag and hit drivers at every hole but that\u2019s something you can\u2019t do on 50 per cent of other courses. Jaypee is probably of a length advantage rather than a strategy advantage. Although there are some places where you have to play smart and you can\u2019t just be dumb and hit as far as you like and suddenly find yourself 40 yards away from the front pin and you can\u2019t spin it, you can\u2019t stop it. So you have to be smart to hit three shots and get a par score. You can\u2019t be all brawn and no brain but you have to hit it far enough to take advantage of certain holes,\u201d said the defending champion. \u201cThere are lot of long hitters but then the deciding factor always remains the showing on the greens,\u201d added Lahiri<\/p>\n<p>Himmat Singh and Rashid Khan who are placed second and third respectively on the PGTI order of merit are looking to put up a tough fight to win the PGTI\u2019s flagship event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking to put forward a good show in the weekend. I have made cuts in all the tournaments I played this year except for the Indian Open. So I am quite confident and definitely would look to win highest paid tournament on the domestic circuit,\u201d said Rashid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greater Noida:<\/strong> Defending Champion Anirban Lahiri hopes to put up a fierce competition and hopes to defend his Bilt Open crown which gets underway at the Jaypee Greens Golf Resort from tomorrow. Bilt Open which returned back to NCR would see top Indian lining up for the 10 mn tournament including Jyoti Randhawa, Himmat Rai, Rashid Khan and the leader of PGTI order of merit Mukesh Kumar.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anirban hopes to defend his Bilt open crown - 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=587\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anirban hopes to defend his Bilt open crown - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Greater Noida: Defending Champion Anirban Lahiri hopes to put up a fierce competition and hopes to defend his Bilt Open crown which gets underway at the Jaypee Greens Golf Resort from tomorrow. 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