November 7, 2013.Tapendra Ghai made a splendid start as he assumed the lead, although a solitary stroke at the end of the opening round of the East India Junior Golf Championship being played at the testing par-72 RCGC course here on Wednesday.
Tapendra shot a level par 72 to be ahead of the tied second placed of Raghubir Choudhary, Feroz Singh Garewal.
Karandeep Kochhar emerged as the leader in Category B with a 77 while Udayjit Bhalotia and Saptak Talwar shared the second spot at 78. Sarthak Chhibber and Karan Sharma were tied fourth at 80 while Arjun Prasad was sixth just a stroke behind.
Top scores after 18 holes:
Category A:
72 Tapendra Ghai; 73 Raghubir Chaudhary , Feroz Singh Garewal, 74 Mohan Sardar, 75 Tutul Ali, Prakhar Asawa; 76 Vidit Singh , 77 Pukhraj Singh Gill , Viraj Madappa, Sunit Chowrasia & rohan Rana.
Category B:
77 Karandeep Kochhar, 78 Udayjit Bhalotia , Saptak Talwar, 80 Karan Sharma, Saarthak Chibber, 81 Arjun Prasad.
