Women's Golf Association of India

Bogey free Ridhima takes lead in 10^th Leg of Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour

Kolar, Karnataka, July 15: Ridhima Dilawari, who won three of the first six events this season, fired a bogey free 4-under 68 to lead by one over three players after the first round of the tenth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Zion Hills Golf County. Ridhima, who was T-8 and T-9 in the last two legs, led by one over last week’s winner Vani Kapoor, the experienced Amandeep Drall and Vidhatri Urs, who is looking to recover her form and rhythm. The trio shot 3-under 69 and were chasing Ridhima hard.

Ridhima, who is working towards finding a place back on the Ladies European Tour and getting in good form ahead of the LET event Hero Women’s Indian Open later this year, birdied the opening hole and then parred the next eight. She added birdies on the tenth, 13th and 14th and closed with pars on the last four.

Vani Kapoor, five-time winner last year, had seven birdies but she also gave away two bogeys and a double bogey in her round of 69. Vidhatri Urs, who had three wins in a row in 2024, her first year as a pro, had six birdies against three bogeys for her 69, while Amandeep Drall had five birdies against back-to-back bogeys on the seventh and the eighth.

Saanvi Somu, who has been knocking on the doors of her first win on the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, first as an amateur and now as a pro, was all alone in the fifth place with 1-under 71 that had one bogey on the front nine and two birdies on the back nine.

Ananya Datar and Kashika Misra carded even par 72 each to be tied for the sixth place, even as Mannat Brar and Riya Jadon shared the eighth place with 1-over 73 each.

A big bunch of six players Prakruthi Sastry, Jasmine Shekar, Shagun Narain, Neha Tripathi and amateurs Ananthi Vivek and Ananyaa Sood shared the 10th place. Ananthi plays at Zion Hills and trains with Tarun Sardesai here. All carded 2-over 74 each.

Among the big names further behind were Tvesa Malik (75) in Tied-16th alongside young Lavanya Jadon.

Tee times for Round 2 of the 10th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Zion Hills Golf County, Kolar:

1. 7:30: am: Durga Nittur 77, Ceerat Kang (A) 76, Heena Kang 76;

2. 7:40: am: Karishma Govind, 76, Anvvi Dahhiya 76, Ketaki Sood 76;

3. 7:50: am: Keerthana Rajeev (A) 76, Lavanya Jadon 75, Tvesa Malik 75;

4. 8:00: am: Ananthi Vivek (A) 74, Neha Tripathi 74, Shagun Narain 74;

5. 8:15: am: Ananyaa Sood (A) 74, Jasmine Shekar 74, Prakruthi Sastry 74;

6. 8:25: am: Riya Jadon 73, Mannat Brar 73, Kashika Misra 72;

7. 8:35: am: Ananya Datar 72, Saanvi Somu 71, Vidhatri Urs 69;

8. 8:45: am: Vani Kapoor 69, Amandeep Drall 69, Ridhima Dilawari 68.

Tee 10

9. 7:30: am: Yaalisai Verma 77, Priya Kumari (A) 77, Jahnavi Prakhya 77;

10. 7:40: am: Gourabi Bhowmick 77, Snigdha Goswami 78, Khushi Khanijau 78;

11. 7:50: am: Shrestha Shukla 78, Tanishka Prithvi (A) 78, Jasmandeep Kaur 78;

12. 8:05: am: Anvitha Narender 78, Anaggha Venkatesh 78, Rhea Jha 78;

13. 8:15: am: Prarthana Khanna 79, Eti Chaudhary 79, Jahaanvie Walia 79;

14. 8:25: am: Anuradha Chaudhari (A) 79, Seher Atwal 80, Ananya Garg 81;

15. 8:40: am: Sneha Singh 81, Rhea Purvi 81, Smriti Bhargav 82;

16. 8:50: am: Oviya Reddi 82, Alysha Dutt (A) 82, Ayushi Dutta 83;

17. 9:00: am: Ravjot Dosanjh 84, Shweta Mansingh 86, Jia Kochhar 87.