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Ranjit takes lead

By Our Sports Reporter

GURGAON AUG. 28. Overnight leader Ranjit Singh broke free and established a two-stroke lead after two rounds in Group A, in the IGU junior golf tour tournament at the DLF Golf and Country Club here on Wednesday.

Ranjit carded a back-to-back four-over 76 to take his aggregate to 152. As the course conditions improved with bright sunshine on Wednesday, Ranjit played a steady game to stay on course for the title.

Karan Vasudeva, who was tied for the first position with Ranjit after the first round, played a round of 78 and slipped to the second spot with an aggregate of 154. Ajay Kumar (78, 78) was third followed by a group of three in fourth position.

In Group A, the cut was applied at 25-over 173 to keep 50 per cent of the field in the fray.

Kunal Balhara led Group B with an improved performance in the second round.

After an opening round of 83, Balhara carded 78 to be at 13-over 161. Ajeetesh Sandhu faltered with 86 after his 80 on the first day, but still held on to the sole second position.

In Group C, Arun Kumar (102, 96) and Gaurav Raxwal (104, 94) were tied for the first position.

The scores (after 36 holes):

Group A (under-17): Ranjit Singh (76, 76) 152; Karan Vasudeva (76, 78) 154; Ajay Kumar (78, 78) 156; Amardeep Malik (78, 79), Sunil Kumar (79, 78), Surender Kumar (80, 77) 157; Jaskiret Singh Dullet (79, 80), Naseebuddin (79, 80) 159; Himmat Singh (82, 79) 161; Sagar Bhatia (83, 79) 162.

Group B (under-15): Kunal Balhara (83, 78) 161; Ajeetesh Sandhu (80, 86) 166; Arshdeep Tiwana (84, 88) 172; Ratul Sood (88, 85) 173; Gaganjit Bhullar (93, 83) 176; Raj Randhawa (93, 84) 177; Bhavani Parmar (92, 88) 180; K. Chaudhary (91, 90) 181; Rudresh Sharma (92, 93), Zorawar Singh (95, 90) 185.

Group C (under-13): Amanjot Singh (79, 80), Fatehvir Dhaliwal (81, 78) 159; Rahul Bakshi (85, 77) 162; Siddharth Seth (85, 81) 166; Devanshu Bajaj (81, 88) 169; Saurabh Bhaduri (86, 84) 170; Madhav Soi (89, 88) 177; Tarun Raghavan (93, 85) 178; Rashid Khan (89, 92) 181; Jatin Dhingra (96, 87) 183.

After 18 holes:

Group D (under-11): Khalin Joshi 92; Rommel Majumdar 97; Virat Badhwar 99; Zubin Nijhaawan 107; Sultan Matharoo 108; Sameer Chaudhary 109; Ankur Chaddha, Kshitij Mehta 112; Sahil Dewan, Anish Gupta 116.

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