Women's Golf Association of India

Ridhima roars back to form to take 3-shot lead in 12^th Leg of Hero WPG Tour

Bengaluru, Aug 12: Ridhima Dilawari, who seemed to be searching for her ‘A’ game after the three wins in first six legs of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour 2026, came out with flying colours in the opening round of Leg 12 at the Prestige Golfshire.

Ridhima shot 5-under 67 to open up a handy three-shot lead over the field. The Gurugram golfer, who turned 28 last month, had six birdies against one solitary bogey in her round.

Three players including amateur Keerthana Rajeev, Mannat Brar and Vidhatri Urs, winner of the 10th Leg, were three behind in second place following cards of 2-under 70 each.

Keerthana had four birdies against two bogeys, while Mannat had three birdies against one bogey on the 18th and Vidhatri had one bogey on the opening hole and three birdies, all on the front nine of the course.

Four players including the experienced trio of Amandeep Drall, Neha Tripathi and Shweta Mansingh were in tied fifth place alongside Anaggha Venkatesh with all of them shooting even par 72 each as only eight players shot even par or better during the day.

There was another big bunch of five players Heena Kang, Durga Nittur, Oviya Reddi, amateur Anushka Gupta and Jasmine Shekar in tied ninth place with scores of 1-over 73 each.

Among the surprises were Vani Kapoor, who trailed in T-26 with a 76, while last week’s winner, Sneha Singh (78) was T-35.

Saanvi Somu, who has played a lot in Europe this season on the LET Access Series, shot 75 and was T-21.

Tee times for Round 2 of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour Leg 12 at Prestige Golfshire, Bengaluru:

1. 6:30 am: Geetika Ahuja 85, Mayara Sharma 84;

2. 6:40 am: Diya C Patil (A) 83, Eti Chaudhary 83, Ragini Navet (A) 83;

3. 6:50 am: Ketaki Sood 82, Stuthii Kaveriamma (A) 82, Yashita Raghav 81;

4. 7:00 am: Riya Jadon 81, Priya Kumari (A) 80, Prarthana Khanna 79;

5. 7:10 am: Rhea Jha 78, Snigdha Goswami 78, Sneha Singh 78;

6. 7:25 am: Janneya Dasanniee 78, Saanvi Reddy 78, Agrima Manral 77;

7. 7:35 am: Ayesha Gupta (A) 77, Khushi Khanijau 77, Ayushi Dutta 76;

8. 7:45 am: Shrestha Shukla 76, Prakruthi Sastry 76, Anahita Singh 76;

9. 7:55 am: Ananya Garg 76, Vani Kapoor 76, Anvitha Narender 75;

10. 8:10 am: Shagun Narain 75, Saanvi Somu 75, Jasmandeep Kaur 75;

11. 8:20 am: Esther Lobo 75, Kashika Misra 74, Lavanya Jadon 74;

12. 8:30 am: Anvvi Dahhiya 74, Ananya Datar 74, Seher Atwal 74;

13. 8:40 am: Jahnavi Prakhya 74, Smriti Bhargav 74, Jasmine Shekar 73;

14. 8:55 am: Anushka Gupta (A) 73, Oviya Reddi 73, Durga Nittur 73;

15. 9:05 am: Heena Kang 73, Shweta Mansingh 72, Neha Tripathi 72;

16. 9:15 am: Anaggha Venkatesh 72, Amandeep Drall 72, Vidhatri Urs 70;

17. 9:25 am: Mannat Brar 70, Keerthana Rajeev (A) 70, Ridhima Dilawari 67.