Golf: Aryan, Arjun hit the front at US Kids Indian Championship

By Harpal Singh Bedi

New Delhi, 29 January: Aryan Kalia of Delhi and Arjun Rana of Gurgaon carded identical 2 over 74 and were tied for lead in the Boys’ 15-18 category at the end of the first round of the US Kids Indian Championship golf tournament at the Classic Golf Resort near Manesar on Wednesday.

Two shots behind them was Bangalore lad Ruhaan Bajaj.

In the Girls’ 15-18 category, Sri Lankan Kayla Perera also returned 2-over par 74 under tough conditions to take a 4-shot lead over Riya Yadav of Gurgaon.

Reigning European champion Chaitanya Pandey of Delhi hit the only sub-par card of the day shooting 1-under par 35 in the Boys’ 8 category with Jaipur’s Devvrat Singh Rajawat trailing by two strokes.

Meanwhile, Ragini Navet of Delhi who had won the Malaysia Kids Championship in December last, brought in the second best card signing an even-par card of 72 in the Girls’ 13-14 category. She is being chased by Mumbai’s Nisha Patel who was just a stroke behind.

Results

Boys 15-18

74 Aryan Kalia (DEL), Arjun Rana (GGN); 76 Ruhaan Bajaj (BLR)

Boys 13-14

72 Shlok Jain (US); 73 Ramayush Ray (KOL); 75 Vasu Sehgal (CHD)

Boys 12

78 Shazrai Shazrul (South Africa); 81 Kuldeep Dhesi (Jalandhar); 82 Samarveer Singh Maini (DEL)

Boys 11

75 Aditya Khaitan (KOL); 76 Pritish Singh Karayat (DEL); 80 Prashant Agarwal (KOL)

Boys 10

76 Bhavesh Nirwan (Noida); 79 Aravir Bachal (GGN), Prince Bainsla (Palwal), Armaan Gawde (MUM, Arshvant Srivatsava (Noida)

Boys 9

78 Sohang Har Kantor (Noida); 85 Arjunveer Shishir (Panchkula)

Boys 8

35 Chaitanya Pandey (DEL); 37 Devvrat Singh Rajawat (Jaipur)

Boys under-7

57 Nived Reddy Kotta (US)

Girls 15-18

74 Kayla Perera (Sri Lanka); 78 Riya Yadav (GGN); 79 Vidushi Keni (BLR)

Girls 13-14

72 Ragini Navet (DEL); 73 Nisha Patel (MUM); 82 Sanvi Swarup (Canada)

Girls 12

81 Serena Khanna (DEL); 99 Estefania Azcona (Mexico)

Girls 11

91 Netra Reddy Kotta (US)

Girls 10

74 Aaliya Bairoliya (Noida); 86 Parnika Sharma (Noida)

Girls 9

44 Anandita Baloria (DEL), Maya Palanza Gaudin (US)

Girls 8-under

38 Aamiya Koul (DEL); 40 Shambhavi Chaturvedi (Noida); 42 Shiksha Jain (Jaipur)