Women's Golf Association of India

Diksha pulls away to open 3-shot lead in 15thLeg of Hero WPG Tour

Kolkata, November 14:Diksha Dagar pulled away from the rest of the field with two birdies in the last three holes in the 15th and final Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club on Thursday.

Dagar, looking for her first win on the domestic Tour as a professional, is now in sole lead. She carded her second straight one-under 71 to get to two-under 142 and open up a three-shot lead over overnight co-leader Ridhima Dilawari (74). Ridhima, looking for her fifth win this year, is one-over 145 for 36 holes.

Diksha won the final leg of the 2017 season, but as an amateur. She turned pro at the start of this year and won the Women’s South African Open on the Ladies European Tour, but she is yet to win on the Indian pro Tour this year.

In her three previous starts this season, she was third in the first leg, Tied-second in the 13th Leg and was fourth last week in the 14th Leg. Vani Kapoor (72) moved into third place at 146 and was one shot ahead of amateur Pranavi Urs (72) at 147. Amandeep Drall had an up-and-down round with three birdies, four bogeys and a double in her 75, and is fifth at 150.

Dagar opened with a birdie on the first and then dropped bogeys on eighth and 12th, but birdied 16th and 18th for a 71.

Dilawari birdied fourth but dropped bogeys on fifth, sixth and 11th for her 74.

Tvesa Malik, the second most successful player on the domestic Tour this year with three wins, had a terrible start and never recovered from it. She began bogey, bogey, double bogey to be four-over through the first three holes. She did not drop any more bogeys and picked one birdie on the Par-3 13th for a total of 75, to go with her first round 76 and a total of 151 in Tied-sixth alongside Thai girl P. Supakchaya (73-78).

Gauri Karhade (78-76) and Khushi Khanijau (75-80) were eighth and ninth, while Neha Tripathi (76-80) and Siddhi Kapoor (74-82) were Tied-tenth.

Tee times for third and final round of the 15th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour:

8:30 AM: Marshneil Prasad 172; Anousha Tripathi 171;

8:40 AM: Ishvari Prasanna 166; Jyotsana Singh 163; Anisha Agarwalla 162;

8:50 AM: Numa Gulyanamitta 162; Gurjot Badwal 160; Shriya Vivek 160;

9:00 AM: Astha Madan 159; Saaniya Sharma 159; Tavleen Batra 158;

9:10 AM: Siddhi Kapoor 156; Neha Tripathi 156; Ananya Datar 156;

9:20 AM: Khushi Khanijau 155; Gauri Karhade 154; Supakchaya P. 151;

9:30 AM: Tvesa Malik 151; Amandeep Drall 150; Pranavi Urs (A) 147;

9:40 AM: Vani Kapoor 146; Ridhima Dilawari 145; Diksha Dagar 142;