Tarun Talwar cards Hole-In-One at Lloyd DGC League

Tarun Talwar of Royal Ranthambore Athletic Drive scored a Hole-In-One on the par-3 7th hole.

Dayal Opticals beat Royal Ranthambore Athletic Drive

Khel Today Bureau

New Delhi: Tarun Talwar of Royal Ranthambore Athletic Drive, carded a brilliant hole-in-one but failed to prevent his team from losing to Dayal Opticals 2 – 3 on day-three of the Fourth Edition of the ‘Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League powered by Radico’.

Tarun Talwar used his 6-iron to great effect to card a hole-in-one on the par-3 7th hole. “It feels great acing the 7th hole but I wish we had won the match. That would have been the icing on the cake,” said Talwar.

In the opening match of the day Royal Ranthambore Athletic Drive won the first game with Vidhit Tulshan and Poonam Beesla beating Veersuvrat Rajpal and Anoop Nahar. Dayal Opticals however came back with a bang winning the next three games. The fifth game was tied and despite a valiant win by Surya Uday Bedi and BP Ojha of Royal Ranthambore Athletic Drive, over Dilsher Singh Dhingra and Sarvash Kalra, Dayal Opticals romped home to a 3-2 win, bagging 3 crucial points for their effort.

In the match between SwingKKings and Baale Golf, the former registered wins in the first two games before Deepak Dewan and Prashant Kaul of Baale Golf pulled one back with a win in the third game. The team of SwinkKKings’ Owner Kanishk Khullar and Vikram Kapoor grabbed back the advantage with a win in the fourth game and with another win in the fifth game, SwingKKings was in the driver’s seat. Despite winning the sixth and final game, Baale Golf finished on the losing side. The score-line read 4-2 in SwingKKings favour and this earned the winners 3 points.

The third match of the day was a close fought affair between Deutsche Motoren and Twenty Fore Lions. Mayali Kashyap and Karam Bedi set the ball rolling for Deutsche Motoren with a win in. the opening game against Legendary Indian cricketer Kapil Dev and Jagdish Sharma. Twenty Fore Lions came back strongly to win the next two games. The fourth game was tied, but Jagat Bedi and Ajay Khurana of Deutsche Motoren beat the duo of Sharad Mittal and Ashok Kapur in the fifth game to take the match into a decider. The sixth and final game of the match was however tied and the score-line read 3-3.

In the fourth match of the day between Sterling Swingers and Birdie Machine, the Sterling Swingers team of Ashish Bharat Ram and former Professional Golfer Vivek Bhandari, beat the duo of Aditya Misra and Keshav Misra to set the ball in motion for their team. Sterling Swingers won the second game, tied the third and wont the fourth as well. Shiraz Singh and Sanjiv Bhasin of Birdie Machine won the fifth game but Sterling Swingers wrapped up the sixth with a win to return a score of 4-1. They earned 3 points for the win.

In the final match of the day between Ardee Masters and Bajaj Foundation, the latter drew first blood with Amitava Mehra and Arjun Singh beating the duo of Punam Chawla and Pranay Puri of Ardee Masters. Thereafter it was a sea-saw of sorts with Bajaj Foundation winning the second and fourth games and Ardee Masters the third game. Ardee Master then pressed on the gas to win the fifth game but Bajaj Foundation leveled scores with a win in the sixth and final game to tie scores at 3-3.

The League is being played on a four-ball better ball Matchplay Format and over two stages – a Round Robin stage followed by a Knock-out stage. During each playoff match between two teams in the Round Robin stage, each team will field 6 pairs (12 players). One pair from each team will play against a pair from the other team in the above-mentioned format, with all the players playing off 90% of their original handicaps. The teams will get points for their wins. The 24 teams have been divided into 4 groups. After the Round Robin stage, during which the teams from one group will compete against each other. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the Knock-out stage starting with the Quarter-finals. In the Knock-out Stage the matches between two teams will be contested by seven pairs (14 players). The Finals, as mentioned earlier, will be played on 26th October, 2024.