Ahmedabad: Delhi’s Sachin Baisoya, who started seven shots behind the lead in fifth place for the last day, registered a classic victory that overrun Punes Udayan Man in a playoff after scoring the best score of four undertook 68 to raise the trophy at the INR 2 Crore Indor Indorama. Ahmedabad.
The 29-year-old Sachin Baisoya (68-71-70-68), who had decided not to play the event this week due to his father’s sick health before he was brought toating with the latter in Ahmedabad, was with 34-year-old Udayan Mane (69-65-68-75). Mane, the overnight head with two shots, returned a last round of 75 after dropping five strokes in the last six holes, in which Baisoya also climbed into the dispute.
Sachin was better to negotiate the tricky pin position on the playoff hole (Par-4 18.) when he cleared a deadly bogey on the same hole with a two-putt par. Baisoya, who has previously won both playoffs in which he participated, thus recorded his fourth professional victory.
The winner of the winner worth 30 LAKH catapulted facts, who comes from the Delhi Golf Club, from 11th place to second place in the PGTI order of the earnings. Baisoya’s income for the season was now inr 44.65,650.
Khalin Joshi from Bengaluru carded a 74 on Saturday to reach third place with 10 under 278.
Faridabads Abhinav Lohan met a fourth round of 72 to secure fourth place at Nine-Uner 279. Abhinav was a main attendant for the title when he took the lead in round four at the head of the back-nine. However, a late bogey and double coboy brought him out of the dispute.
Local Lad Varun Parikh (69) from Ahmedabad and Chandigarhs Ajeetesh Sandhu (71) finished fifth with eight under 280.
Sachin Baisoya made the day steadily progress to climb the ranking. Sachin collected three birdies and a bogey on the front nine, two of his birdies came due to long conversions. Baisoya then pushed an extraordinary approach on the 10th and a massive 35-foot conversion on the 11th, which brought him two more birdies. He finally used his good putting with two well-read putts on the playoff hole that was entitled to him.
Sachin said: “I played well from the start today. That’s why I was pretty confident that I was going into the playoffs.
“With today’s challenging PIN position on the 18th, in which the slope came into play, I told myself that I shouldn’t make a mistake during the playoff and search for a nominal value. If I had to lose for a importance, it would not matter to me.
“In the past, the three consecutive birdies on the front nine gave me a lot of confidence and my par’s rescue on the 17th, where I had no attitude during my second shot from the bunker.
“I had decided to take a break this week after I missed cuts in four of the last five events. Then my father got sick and traveled to Ahmedabad, seemed to be even less likely. However, my father convinced me to play in Ahmedabad and said he would be fine.
“My self -confidence had dropped in the past few weeks, but my uncle and former professional Vinod Kumar helped me a lot to correct a few things when it comes to my hits.
Olympic Udayan Mane, a winner of 12 titles and former PGTI Order of the Merit Champion, was after the victory after making three birdies and a bogey in the first 12 holes. In a dramatic late twist, however, Udayan came in the last six holes who put the match in a playoff, two double chefs and a bogey.
