GOLF

Chouhan begins with spherical of 71 in Bahrain

Indian golfer Om Prakash Chouhan, enjoying his maiden season on the DP World Tour, dropped a late double bogey for a gap spherical card of 1-under 71 on the Bahrain Championship right here.

He was positioned T-69 and can want a pointy second spherical to make his first DP World Tour reduce exterior India.

Chouhan, who received the PGTI’s Order of Merit to seize a full card to the DP World Tour, missed the reduce final week in Ras Al Khaimah.

In Bahrain, the place he’s the lone Indian as Shubhankar Sharma has taken the week off, Chouhan did a nice job by selecting three of his birdies on the Par-5s and putted nicely.

He bogeyed the second and the fourth, however birdies on the par-5 third and Par-3 seventh from 16 toes meant he turned in even par. A birdie on the par-5 eleventh from 9 toes and a gap out from 27 yards on the Par-5 14th noticed him get to 2-under however a double bogey on Par-3 sixteenth ruined his card. He did handle a 13-foot birdie on the 18th for a 71.

-PTI