Malik equals course record with 62
HYDERABAD: Noida’s Amardip Malik fired a sparkling nine-under 62 to take the first round lead at the PGTI’S season-opening Golconda Masters Golf Championship here on Wednesday.
Malik also equalled two-time Golconda Masters champion and friend Ajeetesh Sandhu’s course record which the latter had set in 2016. Malik sank incredible 12 birdies in exchange for a bogey and a double-bogey
Patna’s Aman Raj, who recently qualified for the Asian Tour, and Bengaluru’s M Dharma were tied second after identical seven-under 64.
TVESA IN LEAD
AHMEDABAD: Tvesa Malik fired the day’s only sub-par round to take a massive eight-shot lead after the second round of the third leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on Wednesday. Tvesa carded 71 in the second round following her first round score of 72. Tvesa now has a total of 143.
CAVALRY GOLD CUP
NEW DELHI: Cavalry-asc beat APRC-NAVY 8-3 ½ in the Cavalry Gold Cup (10 goal tournament) that kicked off the Delhi spring polo season. In another match, Garcha Group-aravali Polo beat Rajnigandha Achievers 8 ½-6.
SR WOMEN’S HOCKEY
HISAR: UCO Bank defeated Delhi 1-0 in a Pool H Match while Sports Authority of Gujarat registered a 6-1 win over Tripura in the 9th Hockey India Senior Women National Hockey Championship (B division). UCO Bank entered the quarter-finals.
SR MEN’S HOCKEY
GWALIOR: Services Sports Control Board overcame a 1-3 setback to hold defending champions Punjab 3-3 in a Pool A match.
MAINI SHIFTS GEARS
NEW DELHI: Indian driver Arjun Maini will make a shift from open-wheel racing to endurance sports car racing as he joins RLR Msport for the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 15-16 and a full season in the European Le Mans Series.
NEW PLANS FOR CHESS
CHENNAI: Hiring foreign coaches for Indian junior/sub-junior chess teams and for senior women players and providing international exposure to top performers are some of the measures being considered by the All India Chess Federation (AICF), said top officials.
ATHLETES’ DEMAND
CHANDIGARH: A group of para-athletes, including Paralympic silver medallist Deepa Malik, met Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar on Tuesday seeking assurances on the job promises made by the state government.
ARCHERS KILLED
SHAHDOL: Two national archery players from Jharkhand were on Wednesday killed when their car rammed into a truck near Lalpur airstrip in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district, police said. The deceased, identified as Jaspal Singh (19) and Saras Soren (21), had played at the national level archery championships.
KOCHI WIN
KOCHI: Kochi Blue Spikers edged past Ahmedabad Defenders (10-15, 15-11, 11-15,15-12, 15-12) in a Pro Volleyball League match here on Wednesday. For Kochi, Olympic gold medallist David Lee scored 10 points (7 spikes, 2 blocks and 1 serve point).