Royal wellington golf club

Junior Girls Amateur Golf Championships: India’s Guntas Kaur Sandhu carded a one-under 71 at the Royal Wellington Golf Club here on Thursday to emerge as the best Indian at tied 17th position after the opening round of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific. She opened the day with a bogey and was Tied-17th at the end of it.

Among the other Indians, Ananyaa Sood (74) was Tied 42nd, Zara Anand (79) was T-66, and Jia Kataria (81) was T-75.

Part of the four-member team sent by the Indian Golf Union (IGU), Guntas began on a modest note with a bogey on the first hole before sinking birdies on the third, eighth, and 12th holes. But a bogey on the 15th hole pegged her back. She trails the leader, Yunseo Yang of South Korea, by seven strokes.