Recording breakthrough win, Abhinav Lohan lifts Bengaluru Open golf title

Bangalore, December 21: India’s veteran golfer Abhinav Lohan lifted PGTI title securing a narrow one-shot triumph at the Bengaluru Open golf championship on Friday.

 

 

Lohan shot four-under 68 to take his four-day total to 13-under-275 with seven birdies, a bogey and a double-bogey to show on his card.

It was Lohan's first title on the TATA Steel PGTI and second win of the year as he had also emerged victorious at the PGTI Feeder Tour event in Lucknow two months back.

“I’m just relieved to win on the main tour for the first time. It’s my ninth season as a professional and I had come close to winning on quite a few occasions in the past. I then had a poor 2018 as I missed 10 cuts in a row and lost my PGTI card. So this victory is all the more sweet,” says Lohan. 

 

 

Chandigarh's Karandeep Kochhar with 71 finished runner-up at 12-under-276. The Bengaluru duo of M Dharma, who shot the day's best round of 67, and Rahil Gangjee 71 took third and fourth places with totals of 11-under-277 and 10-under-278.

Lohan thus became the fourth Indian golfer to register his maiden title on the TATA Steel PGTI this season following the likes of Kshitij Naveed Kaul, Priyanshu Singh and Veer Ahlawat.