Tournaments News

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  New Delhi, 07-04-2013

  ORMSBY TAMES NERVES TO WIN PANASONIC OPEN INDIA

  Shiv Kapur finishes fourth

  Australian Wade Ormsby claimed a nerve-jangling maiden Asian Tour title at the Panasonic Open India to deny Thai veteran Boonchu Ruangkit from a historic victory at the Delhi Golf Club on Sunday.

   

  Ormsby overcame a disastrous triple bogey on the third hole to shoot a final round one-under-par 71 to win the US$300,000 tournament by one stroke from the 56-year-old Boonchu, who was bidding to become the oldest winner on the region’s premier Tour.

   

  The wire-to-wire win earned Ormsby’s the winner’s cheque of US$54,000 and moved him up to eighth place on the Order of Merit.

   

  Singapore’s Lam C...

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  New Delhi, 06-04-2013

  Ormsby keeps lead ahead of Lam; Kapur third; Jyoti & Manav move up at Panasonic Open India 2013

  Australian Wade Ormsby survived a nightmarish front nine to keep a one shot lead over Lam Chih-Bing (73) at the end of the third day of the Panasonic Open India 2013. Ormsby is eighth-under 208, while Lam is seven-under 209 and the top Indian now is local DGC lad, Shiv Kapur, who battled to a even par 72 and shared the third spot with veteran Boonchu Ruangkit (73).

  
  

  Ormsby, who opened with a birdie, just as his playing partner Lam Chih-Bing (73) did but then bogeyed four of times over the next eighth to drop from the lead. But the tenacious Aussie still looking for his maiden win on Asian tour, birdied the last hole to take sole possession of the lead, just as...

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  New Delhi, 05-04-2013

  Ormbsy looks for the breakthrough; Chowrasia lying third at Panasonic Open India

  Even as the well-travelled Australian Wade Ormsby is seeking his first professional title, the second placed Lam Chih-bing is trying to end a five-year title drought at the Panasonic Open India 2013. Right behind them is India’s own SSP Chowrasia at six-under with successive rounds of 69.

  
  

  Ormsby, 33, added a second straight 67 to move to 10-under 134, while Chih-Bing had a bogey-bogey finish to drop from 10-under to eight-under in second place.

  
  

  Four behind the leader is the seasoned 56-year-old Thai Boonchu Ruangkit and India’s two-time winner on Asian and European Tours, SSP Chowrasia, who was India’s leading man....

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  New Delhi, 04-04-2013

  Pratt, Ormsby and Lam share lead; Chowrasia best Indian in 4th place

  There was a three-way tie for the lead at the end of the opening round of the Panasonic Open India 2013, as two Australians, Kieran Pratt and Wade Ormsby and Singaporean Lam Chih Bing shared the lead with rounds of five-under 67 each at the demanding and windy Delhi Golf Club on Thursday.

  
  

  Two shots behind them was the best Indian in sole fourth, SSP Chowrasia, a two-time winner of co-sanctioned events, at three-under 69, while seven players were at two-under 70 and another 17 at one-under 71.

  
  

  While Ormsby and Pratt came back with bogey-free rounds, Lam had one bogey on the 12th. Pratt also had an eagle, one of the six – includi...

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