Despite leading in three rounds, Chandigarh\u2019s Ajeetesh Sandhu failed to clear the last hurdle as Kolkata\u2019s Viraj Madappa overturned a three-shot deficit with a bogey-free 8-under 64 to win the Chennai Open by one stroke, at the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Kolkata golfer (72-67-63-64), who began the final round three shots behind overnight leader Sandhu, made eight birdies to finish at 22-under 266 and secure his fourth professional title. Sandhu (65-66-68-68), a five-time DP World PGTI winner, closed with a 4-under 68 comprising five birdies and a bogey. However, it was not enough to protect his overnight advantage as he finished runner-up at 21-under 267.<\/p>\n
Sandhu earned Rs 10 lakh and climbed from 21st to 15th on the Order of Merit, with season earnings of Rs 33,47,375. Noida\u2019s Amardeep Malik (67-68-69-67) made seven birdies and two bogeys in a 5-under 67 to finish third at 17-under 271. Malik moved from 19th to 14th in the season standings, taking his earnings to Rs 33,75,548.<\/p>\n
Delhi\u2019s Rashid Khan (66-68-72-66) fired a closing 6-under 66, featuring seven birdies and one bogey, to claim fourth place at 16-under 272. Gurugram\u2019s Veer Ahlawat (69-70-67-67), the 2024 DP World PGTI Order of Merit champion, finished fifth at 15-under 273. \u2014 TNS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite leading in three rounds, Chandigarh\u2019s Ajeetesh Sandhu failed to clear the last hurdle as Kolkata\u2019s Viraj Madappa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[309491,309492,157885,309493,309494,309495,49,48,622,12789,12790,309496,82,223435],"class_list":["post-893439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ajeeteshsandhu","tag-chennaiopen","tag-golfnews","tag-orderofmerit","tag-professionalgolf","tag-virajmadappa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-golftournament","tag-indiangolf","tag-pgti","tag-sports","tag-sportsnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}