N Thangaraja hit his irons and chips with pin-point precision on Tuesday that helped him collect seven birdies in exchange for a lone bogey. Thanga, as he is popularly known, landed it extremely close to the pins leaving himself birdie putts within three feet on six occasions. The other high
American Varun Chopra, Gurugram-based Tapy Ghai, Mysuru's Yashas Chandra and Mohammad Sanju of Kolkata shot scores of four-under 68 to make up the leading quartet on day one of the PGTI Players Championship 2023, On a windy day, the leaderboard looked packed with seven golfers bunched in tie
The field of 124 players includes 121 professionals and three amateurs. The leading Indian professionals in the fray are Udayan Mane, defending champion Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, PGTI Rankings leader Om Prakash Chouhan, Sachin Baisoya and Gaurav Pratap Singh, to name a few.
The 2022 PGTI Order of Merit leader and a winner of four titles this season Yuvraj Singh Sandhu had a whirlwind start with three birdies on the first four holes. A bogey and birdie on the fifth and ninth respectively meant that he made the turn at three under.