Face2News/Chandigarh
Pirates of the Greens continued their perfect start to life in the Havells Lloyd CGL 2023 as they beat Golf Ninjas 5-2 here at the Chandigarh Golf Club on the first Saturday of the tournament. Sleepy Owl Chargers broke the Swinging Samurai momentum of two consecutive wins by beating them 4.5-2.5 in a tightly contested tie.
(MOREPIC1) In the day’s other matches, Signature by KLV came back to register a 4-3 win against Golf Masters while Canam Raptors & Hunting Hawks tied their match after an intense match in the first match of the day.Kulvinder Singh gave the Pirates early momentum as he won his singles game quite comfortably 5&3. Karan Singh Mahal pulled one back for the Ninjas with a fine 2 Up win of his own however, the middle & anchor games brought the points for the Pirates as Col. Rupendra Singh & Col. Gurpreet Singh won their game 6&4.
For the Sleepy Owl Chargers, it was a tight game from the outset and the early positive results in the singles games courtesy Col H Panging & Col AS Bajwa ensured their fourball pairs weren’t under too much pressure. That showed as the Swinging Samurai just couldn’t hold on in the first two fourball games which went the way of the Sleepy Owl Chargers. Brig HPS Dhillon & Sunil Sawhney won a crucial game to put the result beyond doubt despite a late fightback from the Samurai.
Signature by KLV recovered after a huge loss in the opening game and their opponents, Golf Masters will also be pleased to put their first points on the board. Himmat Singh Sandhu for KLV & Amandeep Singh Bath for Masters split the singles games with Kabir Sodhi & Manpreet Sandhu putting the Masters ahead with a 5&4 win. KLV sealed the tie with last hole 2 Up wins in the two late fourball games involving BPS Brar & Manishtha Rao and Vinod Soni & Binny Bath.
The tightest match of the day was between the holders Canam Raptors & Hunting Hawks who played out a tied match. Col JM Singh continued his ominous form with a 6&5 singles win for the Raptors while Jaspreet Singh Bakshi pulled one back for the Hawks with a 3&2 win. The next two games went the Raptors way while Gen TPS Waraich & Col IS Bains squared their game against Ravibir Singh & Pauline Sapphire Singh. This left the Hawks in a must win situation in the anchor game where Rohit Singh Dagar & Arun Talwar prevailed 1 Up on the final hole to add a point to their tally.
The next round of matches will now be played from Tuesday, 3rd October onwards.
Results
Canam Raptors 3.5-3.5 Hunting Hawks
Swinging Samurai 2.5-4.5 Sleepy Owl Chargers
Signature by KLV 4-3 Golf Masters
Pirates of the Greens 5-2 Golf Ninjas.
