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Rahul Bakshi wins easily

NEW DELHI: Rahul Bakshi emerged as an impressive winner in Category `A' (15-17 years) with a whopping 10-stroke margin in the Sunfeast Northern India junior golf championship at the Army Golf Course here on Friday.

A consistent Bakshi, who went into the final day with a one-stroke lead over Amanjyot Singh, shot a one-under 71 for a winning tally of 283. Amanjyot's card of 80 included two double bogeys and six bogeys, but his aggregate of 293 was still good enough to make him the runner-up.

The scores:

Category `A' (15-17 years): Rahul Bakshi (71,72, 69, 71) 283; Amanjyot Singh (70,72, 71, 80) 293; Pradyumna Prakash (74, 76, 77, 71) 298; Kushal Thackersey (78, 78, 70, 77) 303; Vicky Sharma (73,72,81, 79) 305.

Category `B' (13-14): Abhijeet Chadha (74, 74, 72, 83) 303; Chikka Rangappa (81, 78, 77, 73) 309; Rommel Mazumdar (82, 80, 76, 74) 312; K. Raghav Bhandari (79, 83, 76, 77) 315.

Category `C' (11-12): Ashbeer S. Saini (76, 82, 77, 76) 311; Hemendra Chaudhary (80, 81, 76, 79) 316; Ankur Chadha (78, 86, 76, 79) 319; Syed Saqib Ahmed (82, 83, 82, 81) 328.

Category `D' (below 10): Vidit Singh (79, 83, 81) 243; Honey (82, 82, 86) 250; Gurbani Singh (86, 88, 87) 261; Piyush Sangwan (88, 89, 85) 262.

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