Tigers, Aces through to knockout stage in golf

The team of Netsmartz Tigers put their best foot forward to record a 4.5-2.5 win over Swinging Samurai in the final Group A encounter of Chandigarh Golf League at the Chandigarh Golf Club. With the win, they qualified for the knockout stage in third place in their group alongside top placed Partee Panthers, Golf Ninjas and defending champions Captain’s 18.

Punjab Aces halved their match against Moksha Royals and thereby ensured that they became the third team to qualify from Group B. Royals now need to wait for the result between the already qualified Sultans of Swing and Cee Dee The Mulligans. In another Group B clash, Signature by KLV signed off their campaign with a 5-2 win over bottom placed Golf Masters.

At the start of the day, both Tigers and Samurai had a chance to qualify for the Super-12 stage. Kabir Dhaliwal and Saurabh Nagpal collected two points in the singles’ games before BPS Brar and HS Grewal pair won back a point for the Samurai with a 7&5 win. The final three games went to the wire and results split after Dilsher Grewal and JS Mahi won 3&2.

Meanwhile, Aces and Royals went toe to toe as both teams split the singles’ games at the top of the line-up. The Aces went on to win two four-ball games on the 16th hole with Tejinder Grewal and Col AS Sekhon along with Aneet Gill and RS Mann scoring the points. The last two games went the Royals way, courtesy Dhruv Kumar and Akarsh Garg pair and Arvind Bajaj-Sehajbir Sidhu combination working well for 4&3 and 5&4 wins.

Darvesh Kumar and Tejpal Brar made a fantastic comeback after being 4-down with 6 to play and halved their game to push their points tally up. KLV started with a win consisted of a 7&6 by Davinder Singh Sandhu and an almost perfect 9&8 win by Sahil Mahajan and Manishtha Rao. For the Masters, Ajay Bansal and Tejbir Wason and Col HS Sethi and Harpal Singh won their games to take their tally into double digits. The last four matches of the round robin stage will be played tomorrow.