Neha, Tvesa and Gusimar ready as Hero WPG Tour resumes after break

Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour returns for the seventh leg of the season after three month break at the picturesque Prestige Golfshire golf course.

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Jun 19, 2018: The Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour resumes at the picturesque Prestige Golfshire golf course on Wednesday after a three-month break. The field, which includes the top three on the Hero Order of Merit led by Neha Tripathi, is ready for the seventh leg.

Neha, who won the previous event, the sixth leg before the Tour broke for summer, will be a strong favourite. Neha registered the Tour’s best ever score of 10-under 62, while winning by a massive 14-shot margin at the Classic Golf & Country Club in Gurgaon.

While Vani Kapoor and Sharmila Nicollet, have been playing in Europe and on the Ladies Asian Tour, Neha, Gursimar Badwal and Tvesa Malik have chosen to compete at home. Vani and Sharmila won the first two events at the start of the season, but after that neither have played at home. In their absence, Gursimar has won two of the four, with one win each for Tvesa and Neha.

Neha and Gursimar have both been consistent. In her last four starts, Neha has won once, been second twice and fourth once. Meanwhile Gursimar, who won twice in her first five starts, finished her lowest, in ninth place at the sixth leg.

Smriti Mehra, Amandeep Drall and Suchitra Ramesh will be the other players to look out for.

With the golfers using the summer break to tune up their games, the seventh leg should see some good action in the first event of the season in the southern part of the country. The next six events are scheduled in the south.

Four amateurs figure in the field and that includes Ridhima Dilawari, who is part of the Indian team for the upcoming Asian Games in Jakarta in August.

In the first round action, Afshan Fatima and amateur Asmitha Sathish will go out in the first 2-ball, followed by the second 2-ball with Khushi Khanijau and Hita Prakash. Siddhi Kapoor, Amandeep Drall and Gursimar Badwal have been drawn together in match 3, followed by amateur Ridhima Dilawari, Millie Saroha and Anisha Padukone in match 4.

Promising amateur Pranvi Urs, Tvesa Malik and another amateur Seher Atwal go out together in match 5, while match 6 will see Neha Tripathi, Sonam Chugh and Smriti Mehra teeing off in the penultimate group. The last group on the first day will see Komal Chaudhary, Suchitra Ramesh and Ayesha Kapur play together.

 

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