Hero Indian Open 2025: Armitage shares lead with Colsaerts, Kinhult; Ajeetesh sits joint fourth after first spherical

It was a little bit of an anticlimax after Marcus Armitage had threatened to emerge the only chief, as he acquired undone on the 18th on the fag finish of the day through the first spherical of the $2.25 million Hero Indian Open on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership on Thursday. The 38-year-old needed to be content material to be joint chief with Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium and Marcus Kinhult of Sweden with a four-under 68.

After pulling off a birdie on the tough seventeenth, Armitage was 5-under, going into the par-5 18th. He managed to wriggle out of a good scenario as he took an opportunity to salvage his place, and putted properly.

“When life is sweet, you’ve got to get pleasure from. I’m more than happy,” mentioned Armitage after winding up the day by getting a “tough putt” proper.

“I simply stored affected person as a result of this golf course can wind you up, you may get pissed off fairly fast. I simply dug in and am actually happy with it,” he added..

There was a number of excellent news for the house followers, as Ajeetesh Sandhu shot three-under 69, with six birdies and three bogeys to be joint fourth with 4 others.

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“Every thing was above common. I hit a number of fairways and greens, and putted properly”, mentioned Ajeetesh, not overtly happy together with his work on the opening day.

Veer Ahlawat, the runner-up within the final version, did remarkably properly to shoot a two-under 70, to be in joint tenth spot with 9 others.

Two-time champion SSP Chawrasia closed with a par 72, and so did Shiv Kapur, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Om Prakash Chouhan and Rayhan Thomas who had been all tied on the thirtieth with 20 others.