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Sandhu, Chawrasia and Rashid make reduce in Manila
Ajeetesh Sandhu was the perfect of the three Indians to make the reduce on the USD 500,000 Good Infinity Philippine Open golf event, the season-opening occasion of the 2025 Asian Tour in Manila on Saturday.
Sandhu added 71 to his first two rounds of 67-70 to achieve 2-under for 54 holes and was Tied-Twenty sixth.
The opposite two Indians making the reduce had been SSP Chawrasia (69-73-67) at 1-under and was T-37, whereas Rashid Khan (70-72-69) was 1-over and T-49.
Sandhu dropped a bogey on the primary gap however birdied the fifth and the seventh. There was one other setback with a double bogey on Par-4 eleventh, and he then he birdied the 14th.
Nevertheless he gave that shot again on the very subsequent gap.
Yuvraj Sandhu and Rahil Gangjee had earlier missed the reduce.
Japan’s Tomoya Ikemura fired his third straight spherical within the 60s to get to 8-under and one shot forward of Sadom Kaewkanjana (65-66-72) at 7-under.
Sadom birdied two of his final three holes to increase his 36-hole result in three pictures on the midway stage however dropped 5 pictures between the fifth and the ninth on the entrance 9 within the third spherical. He did make up with 4 birdies in opposition to one bogey on the again 9 for a 72.
5 gamers Bjorn Hellgren, Julien Sale, Xiao Bowen, Kevin Yuan and Danthai Boonma share the third place at 6-under.
– PTI
Ahlawat makes reduce at Ras Al Khaimah on DP World Tour
India’s Veer Ahlawat made his first reduce on the DP World Tour after carding a effective three-under 69 within the second spherical of Ras Al Khaimah Championship.
The 28-year-old, who topped the PGTI Order of Benefit in 2024 to earn a card onto the DPWT as per the alliance between the Excursions, moved into the weekend rounds at a creditable five-under and was Tied-Fifteenth.
India’s different DPWT member Shubhankar Sharma additionally shot 69 on the second day, however his first spherical 75 price him heavy as he missed the second straight reduce this season.
Ahlawat had completed Tied-second on the Hero Indian Open at his house course, the DLF Golf and Nation Membership, a 12 months in the past, however he was not a member of the DPWT. He selected to concentrate on the PGTI and earned a passage into the larger Tour.
Ahlawat dropped a shot early within the second spherical, however picked 4 birdies after that for a 69. He birdied the third seventh, eighth and the Fifteenth.
Final week Ahlawat and Sharma missed the reduce within the Hero Dubai Desert Traditional.
Marcus Armitage birdied his ultimate two holes to stay accountable for the Ras Al Khaimah Championship on the midway stage.
The Englishman, who opened with a blistering nine-under par first spherical, adopted that with a three-under par effort to achieve 12-under on day two.
He goes into the ultimate two rounds with a two-stroke benefit over countryman Dan Brown and Spain’s Alejandro del Rey at Al Hamra Golf Membership.
Armitage birdied the third and fourth holes to overhaul Brown and del Rey, who had set the goal at 10-under, however sandwiched one other birdie with bogeys on the seventh and ninth.
The 37-year-old dropped one other shot on the par 4 twelfth however steadied himself with a pair of pars earlier than launching an assault on the ultimate few holes.
The 2021 Porsche European Open champion transformed from 23 toes on the par three Fifteenth to return to double figures, earlier than birdieing the ultimate two holes for the second day in a row – and in fashion.
After lacking the inexperienced on the seventeenth, he chipped in for birdie from the greenside tough earlier than the virtually holing his third shot from 99 yards on the par 5 18th, leaving the only of faucet ins to safe a spherical of 69.
Brown’s eight-under spherical of 64 was the perfect of the day and matched solely by American Johannes Veerman who climbed 42 locations to fourth.
5 gamers shared the fifth place at seven-under, together with China’s Li Haotong and Dane Hamish Brown, who each posted seven below rounds of 65.
Englishman Daniel Gavins, the 2023 winner of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship, made extra nice reminiscences at Al Hamra Golf Membership, carding the second hole-in-one of his profession on the par three seventh gap.
– PTI