August 24, 2014: India’s Feroz Garewal and Aditi Ashok have given a decent start to their Mixed Pair competition that began on Sunday at Nanjing. Determined Indian duo shot six under 66 in the first round to stay at 9th position after their first round in Youth Olympics.
Feroz and Aditi failed to impress in their individual stroke play, which concluded on Thursday, to settle for fifth and eleventh place respectively. Feroz missed a medal by two strokes. Indians trail behind Korea, Italy,Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden South Africa and Denmark teams by five shots in the mixed team event.
Meanwhile, Lee Soyoung and Youm Eun Ho of Korea shot a spectacular 11-under-par 61 to to take a one shot lead over Italy in the foursomes at Zhongshan International Golf Club.
The Korean’s fed off each other to produce the round of the day. Lee, the gold medalist in the Women’s Individual, made eight birdies while Youm made seven as they combined for an opening 61.
“We’re both really happy, we made a lot of birdies early on and that helped us settle down and the birdies kept coming,” Lee told in Irish Golf News reports.
Italy’s Virginia Elena Carta and Renato Paratore shot an opening round 62 to finish day one on ten-under-par. The Italian pair made 11 birdies, seven on the back nine, including a holed pitch from five yards short of the 18th green from Paratore, last week’s Men’s Individual Gold Medal winner.
Play was suspended for an hour and 15 minutes with a heavy thunder and lightning storm passing straight over the golf venue. Thirty teams are part of this mixed team event held at Zhongshan International Golf Club.
The Youth Olympic Games marks golf’s return to the stable of Olympic sports. Golf was an Olympic sport in only two Games – 1900 and 1904 – and in 2009, the International Olympic Committee decided to reinstate the sport for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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