Smriti Mehra wins at Coorg

Smriti Mehra won her third title this season pulling off a victory under testing conditions at Coorg.

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Smriti Mehra

 

Edited by Anand Datla

 

Coorg, 19th September 2014: Smriti Mehra won the Hero-CGL Women’s Professional Golf Championship amidst tough weather conditions to win the third title of this season. With a score of 8 over 78 on the last day, Smriti grabbed her second win in successive weeks. Delhi’s Vani Kapoor and the Kapurthala golfer Gursimar Badwal finished tied second with an identical score of 224.

 

Smriti, who carded an impressive 2 under 68 in the second round, struggled with the prevailing condition and holed four bogies in her front nine on the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th holes. She carded three more bogies on the 12th, 17th and 18th holes alone with a double bogey on the 10th hole. Her only birdie of the day came on the 12th hole to finish with a total score of 222.

 

The Kapurthala golfer Gursimar Badwal carded the day’s lowest score of 3 over 73. At one stage she looked set to force a play-off but a double bogey on the 18th hole pushed her to second spot. She started off with an impressive front nine which included just one bogey on the 3rd hole along with two birdies on the 8th and 9th hole. She carded two more bogeys on the 11th and 15th holes to finish second with the Hero Order of Merit leader Vani Kapoor.

 

Vani had an off day on the day and started with a double bogey on the 1st hole. She tried to make a comeback with a birdie on the 2nd hole but faltered again to card two more double bogies on the 3rd and 5th holes along with a bogie on the 9th hole and a birdie on the 7th hole. She tried to control her game on the back nine but with three more bogies on the 10th, 12th and 14th holes, she finished with a score of 8 over 78.

 

Kolkota’s Neha Tripathi finished fourth with a total score of 231. Her score of 6 over 76 on the final day included two double bogies, five bogeys and two birdies. Jaipur’s Pallavi Jain, Delhi’s Ankita Tiwana and Chandigarh golfer Saaniya Sharma finished fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.

 

After the INR 5,00,000 event at Coorg, the caravan moves to Prestige Golfshire, Bengaluru.

 

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