Golf: Sri Lanka’s Anura Rohana storms into lead in TATA Open

R.A. Anura Rohana, 44-year-old Sri Lankan who won the Silver Medal in the 2002 Seoul Asian Games, Korea, has matured greatly with age. 

Rohana, winner of the PGTI Pune Open in April with a 10 under Total and currently Ranked 12th in the PGTI 2017 Rankings, produced a stunning 61 – 10 under par, second round at the 16th TATA OPEN 2017, at the Golmuri Golf Course, Jamshedpur, to rise to joint 2nd place from 43rd place after Round 1. 

Rohana’s 10 under par 61 was studded with 5 Birdies in the front nine holes and an amazing Eagle and four birdies to crown a fantastic Round 2 and get bang into contention of winning the 16th TATA Open. 

Rohana followed up his scintillating 61, with early Birdies at the 2nd and 4th to contend for the lead, then missed a couple of up and down and bogeyed 5th& 6th, but another Birdie on the 9th and 4 more Birdies in the back nine firmly consolidated his position in the lead of the 16th TATA OPEN at Jamshedpur, three strokes ahead of Raju Ali Mollah at 14 Under par.
 
Today, the Final Round Tees off with Anura Rohana confident that his 3 stroke cushion going in to the Final Round with the knowledge that his 5 under par, on Day 3 in tough windy conditions would help him to reach the finish ahead of the chasing pack. 

Fellow Countrymen N Thangaraja is on 10 under Tied 10th, Mithun Perera on 9 under, Tied 17th and K. Prabagaran 3rd placed after Round One, lying Tied 25th on 7 under par. 

Leader Board After Round 3 of 16th Tata Open PGTI 2017 

-17: R.A. Anura Rohana (69, 61, 66)
 
-14: Raju Ali Mollah (66, 65, 68)
 
-13: Vikrant Chopra, Om Prakash Chouhan, Shamim Khan 

-12: Manu Gandas, Veer Ahalawat
 
-11: Pawan Kumar, Mukesh Kumar 

-10 T10th: N. Thangaraja, Udayan Mane, Viraj Madappa (Leader after Rd1), Sanjeev Kumar, Digvijay Singh, Rahul Bajaj, Abhijit Singh Chadha (Leader after Rd 2) 

-9 T17th: Mithun Perera 

-7 T25th: K. Prabagaran (3rd after Rd1)