Diksha Dagar wins ‘Hero Shot’ skills challenge ahead of Hero Women’s Indian Open

Dr Pawan Munjal with the participants of Hero Shot.

Khel Today Bureau

Gurugram: Two-time Olympian Diksha Dagar emerged winner of the US $10,000 Hero Shot skills challenge at the DLF Golf and Country Club here today beating seven challengers who will line up for the Hero Women’s Indian Open in two days.

The Tokyo and Paris Olympian came through the quarter-finals in second place with 175 points behind England’s Alice Hewson who scored an impressive 300 points in the challenge that needed participants to put the ball as close to the pin on the 18th hole with three scoring circles around the flag hitting from 80 yards out.

Spain’s Nuria Iturrioz with 165 points and Tvesa Malik were the two others to enter the semi-finals at the expense of Hitaashee Bakshi, former HWIO champion Christine Wolf of Austria and another past winner, Caroline Hedwall of Sweden.

Diksha and Tvesa then won through in the semi-finals over Hewson and Iturrioz with the distance increased to 100 yards before the final that was set from 110 yards saw two-time Ladies European Tour winner Dagar get the better of Malik.

Dagar walked away with the winners prize of US$ 4,000, while Malik picked up US$ 2,000. The two losing semi-finalists earned US$1,000 each while $500 went to the losing quarter-finalists.

Prizes were given away by Dr Pawan Munjal, Executive Chairman, Hero MotoCorp.