In-form Gursimar opens five-shot lead in second leg of Hero WPG Tour
Gursimar Badwal played her best round in more than year and a half to take a whopping five-shot lead after the first round of the second leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour here Wednesday.
Gursimar last shot a 68 at Prestige Golfshire in Bengaluru in the ninth leg of the 2017 season when she won back-to-back events.
On Wednesday, the Kapurthala golfer, who turns 26 in a month's time, had five birdies against one bogey on the Par-72 course at Oxford Golf Resort.
A big bunch of four players, led by last week's winner Neha Tripathi, Gaurika Bishnoi, Amandeep Drall and rookie Sifat Alag, trailed her by five shots with 73 each at the Oxford Golf Resort.
Tvesa Malik, winner of the 2018 Hero Order of Merit, playing her first event of 2019, shot 74 and could well have been in the second-placed bunch but for a closing bogey on 18th.
Gursimar, who won twice last season, began with a string of five pars before finding birdies on Par-4 sixth and Par-3 eighth to turn in two-under.
On the back ...