Bengaluru, Dec 7 (UNI) Sri Lankan Anura Rohana powered ahead by three shots
after shooting a sublime eight-under-64 in round two of the PGTI’s Indo-MIM
Presents Bengaluru Open Golf Championship 2018.
The 45-year-old Rohana’s bogey-free effort in windy conditions in the latter half
of the day took his 36-hole total to an imposing 13-under-131 at the Karnataka
Golf Association (KGA) course here on Friday.
While the experienced Anura shot the tournament’s best score to take pole
position, 17-year-old rookie Aadil Bedi also hogged the limelight with a classy
seven-under-65 that placed him second at 10-under-134.
The halfway cut fell at one-over-145 at the Rs. 60 lakh event. Sixty-two
professionals and one amateur made the cut.
Anura Rohana (67-64), who began the day in fourth place, one off the lead,
sizzled from the very start as he sank birdies on his first two holes, the 10th
and 11th. Although he missed a number of short putts on the back-nine,
Rohana did manage to pick up two more strokes on the 14th and 18th.
Anura, a winner of five titles including one at the KGA, stepped on the gas
on the front-nine picking up four more birdies. Rohana, who won his last title
almost a year back, signed off with a 20-feet birdie conversion on the ninth.