Date:05/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/05/stories/2008070554751800.htm

Sport - Golf

Rashid Khan wins title

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Rashid Khan dropped three shots on the last two holes but still walked away with a three-stroke victory in the Northern India junior golf championship at the Army Golf Club here on Friday.

After a bogey on the final hole, Rashid signed off with a card of one-under 71 for a four-round aggregate of 284.

Chikkarrangappa took the second spot following a final-round 69 that also gave him the ‘B’ category title.

The scores:

Category ‘A’: Rashid Khan (68, 72, 73, 71) 284; Chikkarangappa (69, 73 76, 69) 287; Vicky Sharma (73, 70, 77, 75) 295; Kanishk Madan (69, 74, 76, 78) 297; Trishul Chinnappa (77, 73, 82, 70) 302; Ankur Chadha (77, 78, 77, 74), Kapil Kumar (80, 76, 73, 77) 306; Bhanu Pratap Singh (76 78, 73, 80) 307; Samrat Taru Basu (72, 79, 75, 82) 308.

Siddharth Semwal (73, 79, 85, 72), Khalin Joshi (81, 73, 72, 83), K. Raghav Bhandari (75, 75, 76, 83) 309; Zubin Nijhawan (77, 80, 79, 76) 312; Ishaan Kanoi (78, 75, 83, 77), Rommel Majumdar (77, 79, 79, 78) 313; Rahul Ravi (75, 81, 80, 78) and Wasim Khan (77, 78, 78, 81) 314.

Category ‘B’: Chikkarangappa (69, 73 76, 69) 287; Trishul Chinnappa (77, 73, 82, 70) 30.

Ankur Chadha (77, 78, 77, 74) 306; Rahul Ravi (75, 81, 80, 78) 314.

Category ‘C’: Gurbani Singh (73, 84, 84, 72) 313; Honey Baisoya (82, 78, 78, 78) 316; Vidit Singh (81, 80, 83, 80) 324.

Shubhankar Sharma (81, 83, 80, 83) 327; Kelly Rao (86, 80, 85, 80) 331; Akshath Vidyanath (88, 83, 83, 81) 335.

Category ‘D’: Piyush Sangwan (78, 81,78) 237; Viraj G. Madappa (80, 80, 80) 240; Jairaj Singh Sandhu (79, 80, 84) 243; Prakhar Asawa (85, 82, 77) 244.

Mohd. Wasil Khan (83, 87, 82) 252; Altarash Barthakur (83, 87, 86) 256.