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India’s newest golf star, Om Prakash Chouhan, placed himself in a tie for fourth after the first round of the UAE Challenge, the second round of the European Challenge Tour dual event in Abu Dhabi.
Chouhan, winner of the Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge in Bengaluru in March, had a 3-under 69 and was two strokes behind the only leader, Spain’s Ivan Cantero Gutierrez, who finished strong on the ninth hole. Birdied two of his final three holes and was knocked out for a 5-under 67. He had two eagles, the par-4 10th hole where he started his round, and the par-5 15th hole.
Multiple DP World Tour winners Brandon Stone and Conner Sale each shot 4-under 68 and tied for second at 4-under . Chauhan, 36, a multiple-time winner of the PGTI India Tour recently aligned with DP World Tour, had five birdies, including three in a row from 10th to 12th, while he His 69 made two bogeys.
Chouhan is currently 11th on the road to the Challenge Tour in Mallorca, with the top 20 going to the following year’s DP World Tour. If he tops the Indian PGTI circuit, he can also make it to the DP World Tour, so he has multiple options to get into the main tour.
The current leader of the PGTI India Tour and the Medal of Merit winner who received his DP World Tour card the following year, Chouhan made consecutive second, fifth and third birdies from 10th to 12th. He pitched on the 6th and 13th holes.
There were as many as 10 players, including France’s Hugo Coussard, who shot a 3-under 69 and tied for fourth. Also, in that crowd of 10, Manuel Elvira, Benjamin Herbert and Daniel Young were tied for fourth, along with five others. Elvira had the biggest round yet, with six birdies, an eagle and five bogeys, including three in a row from fourth to sixth.
(This story was not edited by Devdiscourse staff and was automatically generated from a syndicate feed.)
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