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Randhawa tied seventh in Swiss Senior; Jeev finishes tied twentieth
Jyoti Randhawa ended a creditable tied seventh, whereas Jeev Milkha Singh signed off tied twentieth after a roller-coaster last spherical within the Legends Tour’s Swiss Senior Open right here.
Jarmo Sandelin of Sweden ended an extended anticipate his second Legends Tour win as he received the match with a last spherical of 67 and a complete of 10-under 200.
Randhawa, enjoying his rookie season on the Tour for Over 50s in Europe, added a 3rd spherical 69 to his first and second spherical efforts of 66-69 for a six-under whole that fetched him a top-10 end.
Randhawa had three birdies and two bogeys in his last spherical.
India’s different star in area, Jeev (69-72-68) was at two-under. Jeev had 5 birdies towards three bogeys.
Former Ryder Cup participant Sandelin’s solely different win got here within the 2019 MCB Tour Championship in Mauritius.
He began the ultimate day within the final group, however one shot behind his enjoying companions — Andrew Marshall and Adilson Da Silva.
Marshall (71) ended tied sixth with James Kingston and Euan Macintosh.
Bradley Dredge (67) was second, one shot behind Sandelin, the winner. Peter Baker (66) was third at eight-under with three gamers in tied fourth place.
Adilson Da Silva ended the week tenth after a disappointing last spherical of 73, whereas Andrew Marshall would settled for fourth together with his 71 on Sunday.
– PTI
Forward of The Open, Sharma finishes T-39 at Genesis
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma, warming up for the ultimate Main of the season, completed T-39 on the Genesis Scottish Open right here.
Sharma, who turns 28 on the ultimate day of the 152nd Open on Sunday, was 8-under by 17 holes and nearly contained in the High-10 when he triple bogeyed the 18th to card 5-under 65 and totalled 8-under 282 to complete T-39.
Scotsman Robert MacIntyre birdied the final to assert an emotional dwelling victory and win his first Rolex Sequence title. He shot 67 and totalled 18-under for the week and was one away from Adam Scott (67).
Indian-American Sahith Theegala carded a last spherical 69 and at 14-under, he was tied fourth with Aaron Rai, defending champion Rory McIlroy (68), in a single day chief Ludvig Åberg, South Korea’s Sungjae Im (69) and American Collin Morikawa (69).
The house favorite produced a shocking end 12 months in the past at The Renaissance Membership solely to see McIlroy take the title however he wouldn’t be denied once more in entrance of his adoring followers.
It was additionally his second PGA Tour win because the Scottish Open is co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour.
– PTI
Atwal finishes 67th in US
Indian golfer Arjun Atwal shot 7-over 77 on the ultimate day to complete T-67 on the Kaulig Firms Championship, one of many Majors on the Senior Champions Tour in the US.
Atwal had rounds of 74-71-73-77 as Ernie Els received his first Senior Main on the Champions.
Atwal made a horrible begin from the tenth on a difficult last day. He had 5 bogeys and a double on his first 9 after which had all pars in the remainder of the 9 holes on the Firestone Nation Membership’s South Course in Akron, Ohio.
Els, a winner of 19 PGA TOUR titles, together with two U.S. Opens and two Open Championships, is enshrined within the World Golf Corridor of Fame. However what was lacking in his checklist was a Senior Main.
Els, who turns 55 in October, by no means had received a significant championship among the many over-50 golfers. He did that this week.
He had a bogey on the par-5 sixteenth gap after which two robust closing pars. Els shot 2-under 68 on Sunday to complete at 10-under 270, edging YE Yang by a shot.
The victory was Els’ sixth on PGA TOUR Champions. He grew to become the primary participant to get to 3 victories this season. The win took him to No. 1 within the season-long Charles Schwab Cup standings.
– PTI
Lahiri stumbles in last spherical, Garcia rallies to win play-off in Spain
The title slipped by Anirban Lahiri’s palms because the Indian was unable to carry on to his four-shot lead earlier than being outwitted by seasoned native favorite Sergio Garcia within the play-offs to complete second at Liv Golf Andalucia right here.
As Lahiri shot two-over 73 on the ultimate day, Garcia, who began the day seven pictures behind the Indian, carded five-under 66 and reached a five-under whole for a play-off, which the Spaniard received.
Garcia began the day at even par, seven pictures behind in a single day chief Lahiri.
However the Spanish star performed flawless golf for 17 holes, posting six birdies and making use of strain on Lahiri, who was making an attempt to interrupt his personal winless drought of 9 years.
Whereas Garcia suffered his solely bogey of the day with a three-putt on the par-three third to wrap up his five-under 66, Lahiri birdied the par-five seventeenth. That put the match in Lahiri’s palms going to the par-four 18th, essentially the most tough gap on the course this week.
Lahiri discovered the center of the inexperienced together with his method shot and rolled his birdie try to 3 toes to arrange the potential successful par.
However with an opportunity to win the person title and safe the group title for the Crushers, he missed the putt for a final-round 73 to drop again to 5 underneath and arrange the double playoff.
For Garcia, the script couldn’t have been written any higher, as he received for the primary time after three earlier playoff losses.
For Lahiri, the winless run since his 2015 win at Hero Indian Open at dwelling, continues regardless of shut finishes in Liv golf.
– PTI
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