India’s Harjai Milkha Singh received the highest honours within the boys 13 class on the US Kids Golf European Championships. The 13-year-old son of Jeev Milkha Singh, Harjai shot a closing spherical of three-under 69 in an action-packed spherical that started with two birdies and ended with two bogeys. With seven birdies in opposition to 4 bogeys, Harjai beat his closest opponent by two pictures. Harjai’s win on the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club capped an important week for the Indian squad, which noticed one other Chandigarh lad, Nihal Cheema end second in boys Under-7 at Longniddry Golf Club. Gurgaon golfer Mahreen Bhatia closed with an eagle to complete second in women 13-14 class.

Bengaluru’s Adit Veeramachaneni completed fourth in boys 9 class, whereas Vihaan Jain was tied-fifth in boys 13 and Arshvant Srivastava end seventh in the identical part rose with three-under 69.

Ananyaa Sood was fifth in women 12 and Naina Kapoor was tied-eighth amongst women 11 class.

Of the 16 Indians who teed up throughout the week at 5 well-known Scottish golf programs, eight gamers completed in top-8 or higher. All three Indian women had been in top-10, The toast of the Indian contingent was Harjai, whose father, Jeev received the enduring Scottish Open in 2012.

It was within the UK in 1958 that Harjai’s grandfather, the late Milkha Singh, received India’s first-ever athletics gold medal on the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. Harjai’s father, Jeev is a a number of winner on European, Japan and Asia Tours.

After turning 50 final 12 months, Jeev now performs on the Seniors Tours in Europe, Japan and infrequently within the US.

After rounds of 72-70 on the primary two days, Harjai opened with a pair of birdies on the primary two holes within the closing spherical. He bogeyed the third, birdied the fifth after which bogeyed seventh and birdied eighth as he turned in two-under.

His closest rival Jordan Botha, who began the ultimate day two pictures behind, was three behind with the ultimate 9 to go.

Both Harjai and Botha picked up momentum on the again 9.

Harjai birdied twelfth, thirteenth, and sixteenth to go five-under for the day. Botha responded with birdies on 13-14-15 to get to two-under however the hole was 5 pictures with two holes to play.

The Indian teen wobbled with a bogey-bogey end and Botha managed a birdie on 17 however the profitable margin for Harjai was nonetheless a useful two pictures.

Cheema beginning the ultimate day two pictures behind Thailand-based Sean Wilding remained two behind as each gamers shot three-over 39 within the closing 9 spherical for the Under-7 class.

Cheema, unable to search out any birdie on the final day, completed sole second.

Mahreen, who shared the primary spherical lead, had 4 birdies and three bogeys within the first 14 holes.

After three extra pars, she closed in type with an eagle in Par-5 18th to complete second behind American Amy Burton, who totalled nine-under 207.