Date:30/06/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/06/30/stories/2005063009721800.htm

Sport - Golf

Dhaliwal way ahead

NEW DELHI: Fatehbir Dhaliwal braved overcast and windy conditions to return a card of one-under 71 to take a seven-stroke lead in Category A of the Nokia Northern India junior and sub-junior golf tournament at the Army Golf Course here on Wednesday.

With a two-day tally of two-under 142, Dhaliwal was ahead of Karamvir Choudhury (149).

Amanjyot Singh led Category B with a card of 75 for a tally of 149.

The scores:

Category A (15-17 years): Fatehbir Dhaliwal (71, 71) 142; Karamvir Choudhury (73, 76) 149; Siddharth Seth (78, 75), Pahul Singh Kingra (76, 77), Richard Hilton (76, 77), Surya Prakash (76, 77) 153.

Category B (13-14): Amanjyot Singh (74, 75) 149; Rommel Majumdar (76, 75) 151; Rahul Bakshi (78, 74) 152; Ajay Verma (78, 75) 153; Rashid Khan (78, 78) 156.

Category C (11-12): K. Raghav Bhandari (83, 81) 164; Ashbeer S. Saini (84, 82) 166, Samrat Taru Basu (87, 84), Dhruv Sachdeva (85, 86) 171, Karamjyot S. Dhindsa (87, 86), Hemendra Choudhury (87, 86) 173.

Category D (under-10): Viraat Badhwar 79, Abhishek Kuhar 80, Ankur Chadha 82, Aakash Srinivasan 85 and Tarundeep S. Chadha 86. — Sports Reporter