Smriti Mehra wins Coorg title

Smriti Mehra

Coorg, Sep 19 (IANS) Smriti Mehra won the Hero-CGL Women's Professional Golf Championship amidst tough weather conditions to clinch the third title of the season here Friday. With a score of 8 over 78 on the last day, Smriti grabbed her second win in successive weeks. Delhi's Vani Kapoor and the Kapurthala's Gursimar Badwal finished tied second with an identical score of 224.

Smriti, who carded an impressive 2 under 68 in the second round, struggled with the conditions and holed four bogies in her front nine on the second, fourth, fifth and seventh.

She carded three more bogies on the 12th, 17th and 18th with a double bogey on the 10th. Her only birdie came on the 12th to finish with a total of 222.

Gursimar carded the day's lowest score of 3 over 73. At one stage she looked set to force a play-off but a double bogey on the 18th pushed her to second spot.

She started off with an impressive front nine which included just one bogey on the third along with two birdies on the eighth and ninth. She carded two more bogies on the 11th and 15th to finish second with Order of Merit leader Vani.

Vani had an off day, starting with a double bogey on the first. She tried to make a comeback with a birdie on the second but faltered again to card two more double bogies on the third and fifth along with a bogie on the ninth and a birdie on the seventh.

She tried to control her game on the back nine but with three more bogies on the 10th, 12th and 14th, she finished with 8 over 78.

Kolkata's Neha Tripathi finished fourth with 231. Her score of 6 over 76 on Friday included two double bogies, five bogies and two birdies.

Jaipur's Pallavi Jain, Delhi's Ankita Tiwana and Chandigarh's Saaniya Sharma finished fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively.

After the Rs.5 lakh event here, the caravan moves to Prestige Golfshire, Bangalore.