GOLF
Sharma finishes 66th as Byeong An beats Kim to Genesis title
It was one other disappointing week for Shubhankar Sharma, whose weekend rounds of 76-76 noticed him end tied-66th on the Genesis Championship on the DP World Tour.
Earlier, Sharma had rounds of 71 and 68.
Korea’s Byeong Hun An beat fellow countryman Tom Kim within the play-off to safe his second DP World Tour title.
Birdies saved pouring all through the day as six gamers held the lead in some capability on the Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership on Sunday.
The group on the prime of the leaderboard was intently packed till Kim jumped one shot clear heading down the final when An lipped out for a bogey on the penultimate gap.
Each landed their strategy pictures to eight ft for birdie putts, with An making use of the stress by draining his effort to maneuver again alongside Kim at 17 below.
Kim wanted to sink his to assert the one-shot victory, however he lipped out and the 2 house favourites had been compelled right into a play-off.
Each performed dangerous second pictures when replaying the par-five final, however Kim was left in a precarious place which resulted in him capturing into the primary stand together with his third and carding a bogey.
An had two putts for the title on house soil and solely wanted one to seal his first victory on the DP World Tour since lifting the 2015 BMW PGA Championship, 9 years and 156 days in the past.
Ricardo Gouveia, who started the week in 154th place on the Race to Dubai Rankings, recorded his first top-20 end of the marketing campaign with an excellent third at 16-under to earn his enjoying rights for subsequent season.
Antoine Rozner was one shot additional again, Italian Guido Migliozzi carded the bottom last spherical of the day with a flawless 65 to sit down at 14 below, whereas Francesco Laporta, first-round chief Ivan Cantero and South African Casey Jarvis had been two extra adrift.
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Rayhan Thomas finishes seventh in Thailand
India’s Rayhan Thomas registered a second top-10 end on the Asian Tour, ending up tied-seventh on the Worldwide Collection Thailand after being three off the lead after 54 holes.
The UAE-based golfer was unable to duplicate the magic of the second and third rounds of 63-64 as he shot 2-under 68 on the ultimate day to whole 16-under. He had 4 birdies, three of them between the 14th and the seventeenth.
Among the many different Indians, Gaganjeet Bhullar (67) completed tied nineteenth and Karandeep Kochhar (67) tied-24.
Chinese language-Taipei’s Lee Chieh-po lastly claimed his maiden title on the Asian Tour after sensationally overtaking sizzling favorite Peter Uihlein on the very finish. Lee birdied the ultimate two holes on the Thai Nation Membership to beat Uihlein, after the American had led from the second day.
The champion, enjoying within the penultimate group, fired a seven-under-par 63 to complete on 21-under, whereas Uihlein closed with a 67 to tie for second place with Canadian Richard T. Lee, who carded a 62.
The 29-year-old grew up enjoying golf with Kevin Yu, a winner on the PGA Tour this yr, and sees him as an inspiration.
For Richard T. Lee it was one more close to miss. Because the Tour resumed after the worldwide pandemic, he completed second twice, third on three events and has been within the working on quite a few events.
Final week’s winner of the Black Mountain Championship Michael ‘MJ’ Maguire closed with a 62 to tie for fourth, three behind the winner, together with fellow Individuals Paul Peterson, in with a 63, and Christian Banke, who fired a 64.
The motion shifts to subsequent week’s BNI Indonesian Masters the place India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar is the defending champion.
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RACKET SPORTS
Chaufla secures silver at All India Racketlon Open
India’s Vikramaditya Chaufla needed to accept a silver medal after happening combating towards UAE’s Mohammed Kuba within the All India Racketlon Open right here.
Chaufla, who’s India’s highest-ranked racketlon participant and has taken half in a number of world championships, ended on the rostrum alongside gold winner Kuba and third-place Adit Patel within the premier males’s singles occasion of the match. The finals occurred on Sunday.
Racketlon is a mix sport through which the opponents are required to play 4 racket sports activities: desk tennis, badminton, tennis and squash.
Naheed Divecha gained the ladies’s singles title forward of Shikha Barasia and Tara Bhandare.
Within the males’s singles 40-plus class, Nikhil Bhandare gained the gold forward of Varun Motasha and Akshay Jalan.
Krishna B Kotak, the founding father of Racketlon India Sports activities Affiliation (RISA), topped the lads’s singles 60-plus class forward of Sant Swaroop Sharma and Kurimilla Devi.
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