2008 Asian Tour

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After longtime Gaurav finished inside top-5 ... Well done.
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After a rollicking start to the Asian tour (events that were part of EPGA), our contingent is not performing that well..

at brunei open,

T49 Anirban LAHIRI 70 68 71 75 E (284)
T49 Gaurav GHEI 71 65 73 75 E (284)
T58 Rahil GANGJEE 69 71 76 70 +2 (286)
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Daniel Chopra and Arjun Atwal confirmed their participation in Hero Honda Indian Open from 9th to 12 October at New Delhi ... This year organizers increased prize money by double to US$1 million.

Daniel is first time participating in this event after 2001 ... Defending Champion Jyoti and SSP also carrying Indian challenge ... But Jeev sill has to confirm his participation, he is still not sure about his rehabilitation schedule.

CHOPRA SET FOR HERO HONDA INDIAN OPEN
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Arjun Atwan moves to Asia this week as he along with Rahil Gangjee participate in a Panasonic Open tournament jointly hosted by Asia-Japan at Osaka.
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Arjun had average first day and managed par ... He started from back 9 but scored bogeys on 13th and 15th holes ... On 17th hole he scored first birdie, which he repeated on 2nd hole ... But scored another bogey on 4th hole ... In end scored birdie on 6th hole to finished on even.

Rahil scored 5 bogeys and 3 birdies in his round ... He started from 1st hole, scored bogeys on 4th, 9th, 11th, 13th and 14th holes and managed birdies on 7th, 8th and 12th holes.

Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open 2008 - First Round

T50 Arjun Atwal 70 PAR
T89 Rahil Gangjee 72 +2
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When second round stopped Arjun was 4 under for the day and climbed to T13 position ... Today he had bogey less round, he scored birdies on 2nd, 6th, 9th and 10th holes.

But Rahil had different story ... With another over par round guaranteed that he will miss the cut ... Today he scored 3 over round in that he managed 2 birdies, 3 bogeys and a double bogey on 8th hole.

Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open 2008 - Second Round

T13 Arjun Atwal 70 -4 -4 after 16 holes
--------------- expected cut line @ PAR -----------------
T111 Rahil Gangjee 72 73 +5
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Arjun finished second round on -4 ... Today he managed 1 under with 3 birdies and 2 bogeys ... That helped him to remain inside top-20.

Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open 2008 - Third Round

T17 Arjun Atwal 70 66 69 -5
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Arjun started badly scoring double bogey on the first hole and then never recovered ... He scored 3 more bogeys on 4th, 11th & 14th holes ... And only managed 2 birdies on 10th & 12th holes.

Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open 2008 - Final Standing (Japan Tour)

T36 Arjun Atwal 70 66 69 73 -2 ¥1,140,000
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at Kolon -hana Bank asian tour event
Gagan is tied for 49th at the end of round 3.
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asian tour now returns to india for indian open
with all of them playing except Shiv,he is playing in european this week
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AT Hero Honda Indian Open
Liang Wen-Chong (Chn) 60;
Jeev Milkha Singh 65,
Lu Wen-Teh (Tpe), Sanjay Kumar, Daniel Chopra (Swe), 66;
Rick Kulacz (Aus), Simon Griffitsh (Eng), Unho Park (Aus), Atthaphon Prathummenee (Tha) 67;
Mukesh Kumar, Prom Meesawat (Tha), Karanjit Sandhu, Chang Tse-Peng (Tpe) 68.

Lam Chih Bing (Sin), Muhammad Munir (Pak), Iain Steel (Aus), Gaurav Ghei, Gavin Flint (Aus), Udorn Duangdecha (Tha), Pornsakon Tipsanit (Tha) 69.

Rafick Ali, Andrew Dodt (Aus), Airil Rizman (Mas), Ashok Kumar, Rahil Gangjee, Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha), Harinder Gupta, Jason King (Aus), Rhys Davies (Wal), Angelo Que (Phi), Adam Blyth (Aus), Darren Beck (Aus), Craig Smith (Wal), Himmat Rai and Pijit Petchkasem (Tha) 70.
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Jeev finished 4th :dance: with Chinese Liang winning the event with a wire to wire finish.
Jyoti could not do anything as the defending champion and finished way down.
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The next two weeks are big for the Asian Order of Merit (OOM) race as two big tournaments are being held at Singapore and Hongkong. The $5 million Barclays Singapore Open is a huge tournament followed by $2.5 million UBS Hongkong open. The importance of Singapore open can be judged by the fact that winner will earn a paycheck of $792,500, which is more than the current OOM leader's total Asian tour earning in 2008 of $750K.

This tournament is of great interst to Indians and quite a few of them are in contention for the OOM title. Jeev(currently 2nd), SSP Chowrasia(4th), Arjun Atwal(5th) are all in contention. Even Jyoti (13th) can get in contention if he wins or comes 2nd in this tournament. It would be intersting to follow the Indians and other top 4 non-Indians on the current OOM list, and see how the race for OOM shapes up. Here are the top players of interest:

1 Mark BROWN (NZL) $750,130.44 11
2 Jeev Milkha SINGH (IND) $613,106.69 8
3 LIANG Wen-chong (CHN) $448,428.24 11
4 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA (IND) $443,605.00 8
5 Arjun ATWAL (IND) $430,201.50 5
6 BAE Sang-moon (KOR) $409,545.18 13
7 LIN Wen-tang (TPE) $404,179.81 17
13 Jyoti RANDHAWA (IND) $260,043.74 8

The prizre money for top finishers in Singapore Open is as follows:
1 792,500.00
2 542,500.00
3 305,000.00
4 246,500.00
5 205,000.00
6 169,500.00
7 145,500.00
8 125,500.00
9 110,000.00
10 98,500.00
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quite a few articles about tourney ,here is one on gaganjeet bhullar
http://www.asiantour.com/news.aspx?sid= ... 4487492429
and entry list
http://www.asiantour.com/news.aspx?sid= ... 9673407284
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First round got suspended in between due to bad weather. Chinese Lam Chih Bing leads the stellar field with 4 undr par. the leader among Indians are

[T8] -1 S.S.P. Chowrasia(12 holes), Daniel Chopra(9), Digvihay Singh(8)
[T21]E Shiv Kapur(8)
[T37]+1 Jeev Milkha Singh(11), Amandeep Johl(5)
[T54] +2 Gaganjeet Bhullar(F), Arjun Singh(F), Himmat Rai(4)
----Projected Cut--------
[T79] +3 Gaurav Ghei(F)
[T98] +4 Jyoti Randhawa(F)
[T112] +5 Arjun Atwal(F), Rahil Gangjee(11)
[T145] +9 Anirban Lahiri(F)

The scores for the other than Indians who are in contention for the Order of Merit.

+2 Mark BROWN(11)
+3 LIANG Wen-chong (F) $448,428.24 11
- BAE Sang-moon (DNP)
+5 LIN Wen-tang (12)

In the limited play, so far nobody among the contenders have made a move.

Leaderboard for other notable players:

1 LAM Chih Bing 67 -4 (67)*
2 Marcus BOTH 68 -3 (68)
2 Ernie ELS -3 -3 11
2 Oliver WILSON -3 -3 10
2 Chris RODGERS -3 -3 6

8 Simon DYSON -1 -1 11
8 K.J. CHOI -1 -1 10
37 Padraig HARRINGTON 72 1 (72)*
56 Darren CLARKE 73 2 (73)*
56 Phil MICKELSON 73 2 (73)*
79 Shigeki MARUYAMA 3 3 11
112 Adam SCOTT 76 5 (76)*
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