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2017 LALLA AICHA TOUR SCHOOL FINAL QUALIFYING

Round 3 scores

4 Amandeep Drall -11
T10 Neha Tripathi -6
T17 Vani Kapoor -4
T36 Saaniya Sharma E
T47 Sharmila Nicollet +1
T98 Gaurika Bishnoi +11
114 Anisha Padukone +28

Amandeep Drall has slipped from lead.

2017 LALLA AICHA TOUR SCHOOL FINAL QUALIFYING

Round 4 scores

T4 Amandeep Drall -11
T10 Vani Kapoor -9
T33 Neha Tripathi -2
T33 Saaniya Sharma -2
T43 Sharmila Nicollet +1
-----missed cut------
T91 Gaurika Bishnoi +10
114 Anisha Padukone +37

5 out of 7 Indian golfers have made the cut.
Amandeep Drall and Vani Kapoor have almost secured the 2017 card. Neha, Saaniya & Sharmila need a good final round to finish in Top 30 and secure the card for 2017.

2017 LALLA AICHA TOUR SCHOOL FINAL QUALIFYING

Final scores:

T7 Amandeep Drall -13
T18 Vani Kapoor -5
T25 Neha Tripathi -3
T43 Sharmila Nicollet +2
T47 Saaniya Sharma +3

Amandeep Drall, Vani Kapoor & Neha Tripathi have secured playing card for 2017 season.
Saaniya Sharma and Sharmila Nicollet will have a partial play card.

Overall, it has been a very good performance by our golfers.

I was hoping top-30 finish for Sharmila.

On a side note, Neha Tripathi got engaged to Jeevan Neduncheziyan earlier this year. Both seem to have enjoyed a good year with Jeevan getting to top 100 in doubles and now Neha securing playing card for European tour.

Rayhan Thomas has reached the semi final play offs of the US Junior Amateur Championship.

In semi finals he will face Noah Goodwin who happens to be the current top ranked player for the US Junior Presidents Cup team while Rayhan is the top ranked player for the International Presidents Cup team.

Rayhan Thomas lost the semi final playoff. This is the best ever performance by an Indian junior golfer at this tournament.

After his bronze medal finish at the US Junior Amateur Championship, Rayhan Thomas has reached the career high world amateur ranking of 66.

Gurbani Singh is highest ranked Indian Women amateur golfer at 171.

At Dubai Creek Open (MENA Tour event)- Defending Champion Rayhan Thomas was not able to defend his title and has finished tied second.
However in Round 2,he hit nine consecutive birdies and had equaled Mark Calcavecchia’s (2009- Candian Open) record of 9 birdies in row for a OWGR ranked tournament.

Ajeetesh Sandhu goes back-to-back with Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament victory (JGTO Challenge Tour event).

Sandhu, who won the Yeangder Tournament last Sunday, required a play off for the Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament victory. Before this event, Ajeetesh had played in 6 JGTO Challenge Tour events and currently he is 13th in the money leaders list.

Rayhan Thomas has committed to going to the US college route, looks like he will be joining Oklahoma State.

Have we spoken/written about Julian Suri? He is tied for second place in the EPGA’s Open de France.

His father Jagan Suryanarayan was a national
Level tennis player during Vijay and Ramesh’s era. And they are descendants of Buchi Babu Naidu, who pioneered Cricket in Chennai for Indians.

US based junior golfer Akshay Bhatia, successfully defends his Junior PGA Championship title.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/junior ... st-victory

Wow, he's having a phenomenal junior career so far...

Wow, another Tiger Woods may be in the making.