Sports News | Nightmarish Start for Gangjee in Japan
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee was off to a nightmarish start at the inaugural Japan Players Championship as he carded an 11-over in the first round here.
Tochigi (Japan), May 6 (PTI) Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee was off to a nightmarish start at the inaugural Japan Players Championship as he carded an 11-over in the first round here.
Gangjee had trouble at two of the Par-5s, where he had a quadruple bogey on sixth and a triple bogey on 16th. He had two other doubles and a bogey against just one birdie at the Nishi Nasuno Country Club here to be placed last after the opening round.
Korean Hyun-Woo Ryu shared the lead with Tadahiro Takayama and Taihei Sato, as the trio shot 7-under 65.
The 43-year-old Takayama, playing aggressive, had seven birdies and was bogey free in his round of 65. Last week he was T-3 at Crowns.
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