Flawless Ridhima eases to victory in the Poona Club rankings

A flawless final round took Ridhima Dilawari to her second Hero WPGT win of the season at the Poona Club Golf Course on Saturday. Image courtesy of WGAI.

By Rahul Banerji

Ridhima Dilawari produced a bogey-free final round to emerge as the clear winner of the Poona Club Golf Course leg of the Hero WPGT on Thursday.

Her 3 under par 68 left her nearest rivals Vani Kapoor and Tvesa Malik far behind at the Rs 17 lakh event and gave Ridhima her second win of the season, WGAI said.

Ridhima scored 3 under 208 and finished six shots ahead of Vani, who was 3 over 214. Amateur Anuradha Chaudhuri (69) finished second with Vani, while Tvesa Malik (76) finished fourth at 215.

Ridhima opened with four pars even as Vani went bogey-double bogey-bogey and Tvesa double bogeyed the second and third holes.

That put Ridhima on course to victory and she never looked back.

Birdies on holes five and nine with pars in between saw Ridhima surrender 2 under.

On the back nine, she birdied 12 and parred the rest for a 68, the best card of the day and her second score this week.

Difficult day

Vani’s difficult day continued with bogeys at five, six and eight. Her only reprieve was a birdie on seven, making it five bogeys and a double against one birdie on the front nine.

The back nine saw three birdies against one bogey, but it was too late and her 75 was still enough to earn a share of second place.

Anuradha (69) had four birdies against two bogeys that day.

Tvesa recorded two bogeys and a double on the front nine, with a double and one bogey on the back nine against birdies eight and nine.

Sneha Singh (77), Neha Tripathi (72), Nayanika Sanga (68) and Jahanvi Bakshi (69) finished joint fifth.

Amateur Lavanya Gupta (73) came ninth, while Jasmine Shekar (73), Lavanya Jadon (72) and Vidhatri Urs (72) shared tenth place.

Amandeep Drall (71) was tied for 13th^e next to Ananya Garg (71).

Ridhima’s merits keep her at the top of the Hero Order of Merit with Rs. 7,24,667. Vani is a distant second with Rs.4,66,000 and Tvesa with Rs.3,70,000 is third.

Also read: Vani joins Tvesa in lead at Poona Club leg of Hero Women’s PGT

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