Qutab golf course

Pukhraj Singh Gill: Ludhiana’s Pukhraj Singh Gill, Gurugram’s Tapendra Ghai and Delhi’s Honey Baisoya struck scores of six-under 64 to share the first-round lead at the Rs 1 crore Calance Open 2025 being played at the Qutab Golf Course in New Delhi.

Five players were tied in fourth place at scores of five-under 65 at the Par-70 course which is playing host to a PGTI event after 15 years. The chasing pack at 65 included Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Sandhu, who made birdies on his last four holes, as well as Karandeep Kochhar, another Chandigarh golfer, along with Bangladesh’s Badal Hossain, Delhi’s Kapil Kumar and Kolkata’s Shankar Das.

Twenty-eight-year-old Pukhraj Singh Gill, who was also the first-round leader at last week’s PGTI event in Ahmedabad, didn’t have the best of starts on Tuesday after he made an early bogey on the 12th. However, Gill came back strong with birdies on the 15th and 16th to make the turn at one-under.