March 11, 2014: The top amateurs of India will tee off at the Delhi Golf Club in the ninth edition of Delhi-NCR Cup, which begins today.
The field includes, All India Amateur champion Pratap Atwal and also, Indian Golfing Unions’s Order of Merit leader Udayan Mane, No. 2 Trishul Chinappa and No. 4 Simarjeet Singh.
A total of 56 golfer out of top 60 on the IGU merit will be vying for honours. Adding the sheen will be India’s leading woman amateur Gowri Monga, who has been given a special entry in the event.
The intertnational contenders include Sri Lanka’s P Sisira Kumar and Mohd. Zaffer Sikkander and Nepal’s Bishnu Sharma and Bikash Bogati. Nepalese duo are just back from playing the Bangladesh Open Amateur and would be looking to corner international glory.
Joining them is the Spanish team of Ricardo Oliveira Nuno Brito e Cunha, Germans Christoff Korth and Oliver Leework and Pierre Rolland and Ramos Joa from Portugal will be in fray.
Meanwhile, in the members event held on Monday, the team of Ravi Upadhaya, Parth Sharma, Kamal Goel and Ashok Kumar emerged as the champions.
Apart from the laurels, the winners stand to gain crucial world ranking points on the World Amateur Golf Rankings and a chance to win a fully expense-paid trip to the World Amateur Golf Championship at an international venue.
The tournament is majorly broken into two categories: The Delhi-NCR Cup where players from across the country will vie for honours and the Delhi State Championship meant only for the participants from Delhi. Competition for both will be held concurrently.
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- Amateurs
- Pros
- delhi-ncr cup
- pratap atwal
- udayan mane
