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Updated: Nov 23, 2022 03:00 IST

Gurugram (Haryana)[India], November 23 (ANI): More than 100 younger golfers will tee off on the second Indian Championships, a three-day occasion that provides the golfers an opportunity to e-book their locations into the US Kids Golf European and World Championships subsequent yr.
As a part of the US Kids Golf India collection, the occasion, which awards World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) factors can be held on the Classic Golf and Country Club from November 23-25 and in 13 completely different age classes. The entries for the occasion have golfers from eight international locations together with India.
The kids will play age-specific tees on the Classic Golf and Country Club. The Indian stars and hopefuls embrace quite a few gamers who’ve received on the home Tour and are trying ahead to gathering WAGR factors on the Indian Championship.
The efficiency on the home Tour, the Indian Championship and the WAGR factors collected by the gamers will decide their qualification for the European and World Championship occasions to be held in 2023.
Among the gamers who’ve received every of the 4 home occasions held to this point are Nihal Cheema (Boys 6), Jot Sarup Gupta (Boys 8), Adit Veeramachaneni (Boys 9), Chaitanya Pandey (Boy 11), Manyaveer. Bhadoo (Boys 15-18) and Mehreen Bhatia (Girls 13-14).
Some of the gamers this week, who did effectively final yr on the World Championship, will embrace Kabir Goyal (fourth in Under-7), Chaitanya Pandey (twenty fifth in Under-10) and Arshvant (tied tenth in Under-12). They are all now in the next age class.

A number of different names to look out for will embrace Amaira Gulati (Girls 8), Naina Kapoor (Girls 9-10), Shambhavi Chaturvedi (Girls 11-12), Divjot Gupta (Boys 7), Kabir Goyal (Boys 8), Aditya Misra, Rajveer Suri and Dhruv Singh (all in Boys 10), Prince Bainsla and Armin Paul Singh (Boys 12), Udai Aditya Middha, Bhavesh Nirwan, Ranveer Dhupia, Anshul Bhati and Arshvant Srivastava (all in Boys 13-14).
Rajesh Srivastava, President of the US Kids Golf India, stated, “The staging of the second Indian Championship under the US Kids Golf India banner is a landmark. With more than 100 players from eight countries including India, we expect the three-day contest for honours and WAGR points to be intense. With golf also finding a place in the Commonwealth Games, besides the Olympics and Asian Games, the future is bright for these youngsters.”
He added, “We will soon be announcing some major incentives for the young golfers in India and that will bring junior golf and US Kids Golf India to new heights.”
Rajat Sethi, General Manager of the Classic Golf and Country Club, added, “We are proud to help these youngsters fulfil their potential. We welcome these junior stars to our golf course and wish them all the best and there are participants from other countries, and I would like them to carry back great memories of India and the Classic Golf and Country Club.”
The Indian Championship is likely one of the 4 International Championships left on the US Kids Golf Schedule with the opposite occasions being in Australia, Brazil and Mexico City. So far, 13 different International Championships have been held in 2022.
The Founder and President of the US Kids Golf programme, which now has 1600 tournaments around the globe, which provide locations on the US Kids European in Scotland and World Championship at Pinehurst, Dan Van Horn, can be current on the ultimate day.
The first tee-off on the Classic Golf and Country Club can be at 8 am. The occasion will run by for 3 days from November 23 to November 25. (ANI)