Kapil Kumar continues hot streak
Delhi's Kapil Kumar, a contender in the previous two tournaments played on the TATA Steel PGTI, carried his red-hot form into the season-ending TATA Steel Tour Championship 2019 with a spellbinding effort of 10-under-62.
The 27-year-old Kapil thus set the bar in round one of the Rs. 1.5 crore event being played at the Golmuri Golf Course in Jamshedpur.
Kolkata-based Indian golf star SSP Chawrasia made a happy return to Jamshedpur after 12 long years as he struck a spectacular nine-under-63 in the first round to be placed second.
On a cold and overcast day that witnessed a light drizzle for about 20 minutes, Delhi's Rashid Khan, the prime contender for the PGTI Order of Merit title, was in tied third at 64 along with Bengaluru's Khalin Joshi, Kolkata's Shankar Das and Bangladesh's Md Zamal Hossain Mollah.
Two of the marquee names in the field, Jeev Milkha Singh and Gaganjeet Bhullar, too enjoyed a promising start as both returned scores of 66 to be tied ninth.
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