Sports News | India's Diksha Lies T-3, Vani T-5 in Big Green Open Golf in Netherlands
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. India's Diksha Dagar got off to a flying start in the opening round with a superb card of four-under 68 that placed her tied-third at the Big Green Egg Open golf tournament here.
Arnhem, (The Netherlands), Jul 15 (PTI) India's Diksha Dagar got off to a flying start in the opening round with a superb card of four-under 68 that placed her tied-third at the Big Green Egg Open golf tournament here.
Diksha, the 2019 Investec Women's South Africa Open winner, was just one shot adrift of co-leaders Sarah Schober and Liz Young, who had opening round scores of 67 (-5) at the Rosendaelsche Golf Club in the Netherlands.
Another Indian in fray Vani Kapoor (69) was tied-fifth, while Ridhima Dilawari (72) was T-28, Amandeep Drall (73) was T-41 and Neha Tripathi (79) was T-111.
Diksha opened with a par but then birdied the next three to get to three-under in four. Another birdie on ninth saw her turn in four-under 32.
On the back nine, she birdied 12th and 17th but dropped shots on 10th and 13th.
Diksha was delighted with her performance on the greens.
"It was a really good day. I've been working on my putting and I was feeling confident about my putts so I was making more of them, and that was helping my hitting too," she said.
"Because I've been practising I found it easier to read the greens and find the lines. My hitting was also very good, I was able to attack the flag and make the putts. I was only in the rough once but I was lucky that I had a good lie so I was able to make par from there, otherwise I was hitting all the fairways."
Vani had a slow start with one bogey on the front nine, but then had five birdies against just one more bogey for a fine round of three-under 69 that put her inside Top-5.
Ridhima started from the 10th had three birdies against one double bogey and one bogey.
Sitting one shot behind co-leaders Schober and Young are Dagar and Whitney Hillier, with the duo both shooting 68 (-4) as they made the most of the fine weather.
Local hopes lie with Pasqualle Coffa after the opening round with the Dutch star shooting 69 (-3) to sit three shots off the lead.
Four others including Vani shot 69.
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