The final time an Indian stood atop the leaderboard on daily basis going into the ultimate day’s play on the Hero Girls’s Indian Open golf was by no means. Neither have there been 5 Indians within the top-10 on the finish of the third day’s play of the competitors in all its 16 editions up to now.
On Saturday, Hitaashee Bakshi opened up a three-shot result in not solely proceed her keep on the prime but additionally increase actual potentialities of an Indian winner for the primary time in 9 years. Aditi Ashok is the one different Indian to win on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership right here, method again in 2016.
It began with a birdie on the very first gap, the primary of six, because the native favorite by no means misplaced her composure or management on the proceedings to card a two-under 70 for a three-day whole of 9-under 209. Regardless of the skies opening up for a nice and sunny day, the course continued to check the gamers, who struggled to regulate the pictures on each the fairways and the greens.
“I’m simply going one shot at a time, it’s my house course, no strain. It was exhausting on the again 9 as a result of the tough actually did get to me, and there was a birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey factor that began, however I’m actually glad that I adopted all of it via the tip,” the visibly drained however beaming 21-year-old, in her first full season on the Girls European Tour, stated.
Her solely low level on an in any other case excellent day was on the seventh gap, the place she dropped a few pictures for a double bogey. “It was a 92-yard shot for me from the center of the green, and I chunked it, which was very sudden of me, then there was a 40-yard chip that I once more chunked, however I actually held my calm from the seventh inexperienced to the eighth tee,” Hitaashee admitted.
England’s Alice Hewson, who completed tied 11 final 12 months, was the closest with a card of 69 to whole 210 whereas Singapore’s Shannon Tan stored her Order of Benefit win hopes alive 4 pictures behind, tied with Avani Prashanth and Zara Anand amongst others. Pranavi Urs and Vani Kapoor had been the opposite Indians within the prime 10.
High leaderboard (Indians until said):
207: Hitaashee Bakshi (70-67-70); 210: Alice Hewson (Eng, 69-72-69); 212: Pranavi Urs (72-67-73); 214: Avani Prashanth (73-71-70), Kelsey Bennett (Aus, 71-71-72), Shannon Tan (Sin, 68-73-73), Lisa Pettersson (Swe, 71-69-74), Zara Anand (68-70-76); 215: Kajsa Arwefjall (Swe, 73-72-70), Vani Kapoor (67-74-74), Verena Gimmy (Ger, 68-70-77); 216: Leonie Hurt (Ger, 74-71-71), Amandeep Drall (74-70-72), Chiara Tamburlini (Sui, 71-68-77).
Printed on Oct 11, 2025