India's Kartik wins singles but US beat fighting Internationals narrowly
India's promising amateur Kartik Sharma scored a superb singles win on the final day of the second Junior Presidents Cup golf tournament here.
Sharma, ranked 190th on the World Amateur Golf Rankings, beat Stephen Campbell, Jr. who is a 2019 Rolex Junior All American and won the 2018 US Kids Teen World Championships.
Sharma won 3-up as the match finished on the 16th hole.
On the first day, Sharma and Andi Xu lost to Preston Summerhays and Jackson Van Paris 6 and 4 in the day's shortest match in the Foursomes.
In the Four-Ball, Sharma and Xu went down 1-3 to Vishnu Sadgopan and Benjamin Jones.
Sharma, based in New Delhi, plays at the DLF Golf and Country Club and is coached by Anitya Chand, a former Asian Games participant for India.
Defending champions, the United States Team, however, withstood a gallant fight back from the International team to win the Junior Presidents Cup for a second consecutive time at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club on Monday.
After taking a comfortable 9-3 lead ..