National amateur champion Lavanya Gupta held a one-shot lead on the penultimate day of the Hero WPGT event at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon on Thursday. Image courtesy WGAI.
By Rahul Banerji
All India Ladies champion Lavanya Gupta led the field after two rounds in the DLF Golf and Country Club leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour in Gurgaon on Thursday.
Lavanya, who was trailing overnight leader Jasmine Shekar by one shot after Day 1, carded a level par 72 while Jasmine went 2 over 74 to fall behind by one stroke, the WGAI said.
Both gave away crucial shots towards the end of the round.
While Lavanya bogeyed holes 14 and 17, Jasmine double bogeyed 15. Overall Lavanya had three birdies and three bogeys, while Jasmine had three birdies, three bogeys and a double.
Lavanya is now 1 under 143, while Jasmine is on even par 144.
Durga Nittur shot the day’s best round of 2 under 70 with five birdies against three bogeys to leap into third place at 1 over 145.
Young stars Saanvi Somu (75-73) and Mannat Brar (72-76) were tied for fourth place, while Amandeep Drall (75-74) was sole sixth.
Big jump
Mahreen Bhatia improved on her score by six shots as she shot 72 after an opening 78 and was tied for seventh with fellow amateur Aradhana Manikandan (78-72) and former Hero Order of Merit winner, Sneha Singh (76-74).
Khushi Khanijau (75-77) and Vidhatri Urs (74-78) rounded off the Top-10 at 8-over 152.
Some of the top draws struggled on the challenging DLF course with Neha Tripathi (77-78) and Tvesa Malik (78-77) tied for 14th place and Ridhima Dilawari (78-82) in shared 24th.
The field this week has seen a record 57 players vying for the Rs.18 lakh prize purse. The cut after 36 holes fell at 168 and 41 players will play the third and final round.
Lavanya, Jasmine and Durga, who are all separated by just one shot, will be in the lead group on Friday.
Scores and round 3 tee times
9 am: Shrestha Shukla 165, Anvitha Narender 165
9:10 am: Priya Kumari (A) 165, Snigdha Goswami 165, Agrima Manral 165
9:20 am: Yaalisai Verma 164, Seher Atwal 164, Ananya Garg 164
9:30 am: Karishma Govind 164, Rhea Purvi 163, Anisha Agarwalla 163
9:40 am: Jiah Kang 162, Smriti Bhargav 162, Riddhima Singh (A) 162
9:55 am: Shagun Narain 161, Ridhima Dilawari 160, Alysha Dutt (A) 160
10.05 am: Jahaanvie Walia 160, Gauri Karhade 159, Shweta Mansingh 159
10.15 am: Afshan Fatima 159, Jahnavi Prakhya 158, Heena Kang 158
10.25 am: Nayanika Sanga 157, Jahanvi Bakshi 157, Anahita Singh 157
10.35 am: Tvesa Malik 155, Neha Tripathi 155, Lavanya Jadon 153
10.50 am: Anvvi Dahhiya 153, Vidhatri Urs 152, Khushi Khanijau 152
11 am: Sneha Singh 150, Aradhana Manikandan (A) 150, Mahreen Bhatia (A) 150
11.10 am: Amandeep Drall 149, Mannat Brar 148, Saanvi Somu 148
11.20 am: Durga Nittur 145, Jasmine Shekar 144, Lavanya Gupta (A) 143
Also read: Jasmine steals the show on day one of Hero WPGT at DLF
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