PANASONIC OPEN INDIA AT DELHI

CHOWRASIA COMES FROM FIVE 

BEHIND TO WIN PLAY-OFF
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Delhi:  S S P Chowrasia clinched his third Asian Tour title at the Panasonic Open India after defeating Rahil Gangjee of India and Sri Lanka’s Mithun Perera on the first extra hole today.

The popular Indian coolly rolled in a 15-footer birdie in extra time to cap a sensational comeback as he was five shots off the lead at the start of the day at the US $300,000 event sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI).

With his trademark short game in full display at the Delhi Golf Club, Chowrasia returned with the day’s low score of six-under-par 66 highlighted by eight birdies to finish on 12-under-par 276.

“I worked very hard for this win because I wanted to boost my confidence. It is three years since I last won and I will take a lot of positives from the win,” said the 36-year-old Chowrasia, who won his first Asian Tour title at the 2008 Indian Masters on the same venue.

“I’ve lost in two play-offs before but it never crossed my mind. I was focused on making the birdie putt in the play-off. I always had the belief that I could win on the Asian Tour again and I did,” he smiled.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4x72) Yardage 6,983

276 - S.S.P CHOWRASIA (IND) 70-71-69-66, Mithun PERERA (SRI) 70-67-69-70, Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 66-68-71-71 (Chowrasia won three-way play-off at first extra hole.

277 - Shubhankar SHARMA (IND) 73-65-68-71.

278 - Akinori TANI (JPN) 71-72-67-68, Unho PARK (AUS) 69-71-68-70, Siddikur RAHMAN (BAN) 70-67-69-72.

279 - Jazz JANEWATTANANOND (THA) 69-70-71-69, Panuphol PITTAYARAT (THA) 70-68-69-72.

280 - Rashid KHAN (IND) 68-70-71-71.

281 - Shankar DAS (IND) 69-71-73-68, Atthaphon SRIBOONKAEW (THA) 73-70-68-70, Lionel WEBER (FRA) 73-66-69-73, Wade ORMSBY (AUS) 68-68-70-75.

282 - Chiragh KUMAR (IND) 71-72-72-67, Shamim KHAN (IND) 72-71-70-69.

283 - Martin ROMINGER (SUI) 73-70-73-67.

284 - Blair WILSON (AUS) 70-72-73-69, Manav JAINI (IND) 71-71-72-70, CHOO Tze Huang (SIN) 68-73-71-72.

285 - Abhinav LOHAN (IND) 72-72-73-68, Vikrant CHOPRA (IND) 74-68-70-73.

286 - Terry PILKADARIS (AUS) 69-68-76-73, Chikka S (IND) 72-69-71-74.

288 - Thaworn WIRATCHANT (THA) 75-72-72-69, Om Prakash CHOUHAN (IND) 69-72-73-74, Zamal HOSSAIN (BAN) 68-75-70-75.

289 - Vinod KUMAR (IND) 76-70-71-72, Angad CHEEMA (IND) 70-77-70-72, Sanjay KUMAR (IND) 76-69-74-70, Anura ROHANA (SRI) 72-72-76-69.