Kolkata: Sharif Khan leads the list of qualifiers from the East Zone for the National finals of the Tata Steel Sub-Junior Tour to be held in three cities across India. Sharif who finished on top of the Tata Steel IGU East Zone Sun-junior Tour Order of Merit (Cat A & B) will be accompanied by second placed Yashvardhan Sarda with both the players being from Category ‘B’.
As many as 17 players qualified for the National finals to be held at Kolkata (21st -25th October), Mumbai (18th -22nd November) and Coimbatore (02nd -06th December) respectively. The top two players emerging out of the National finals will gain a direct entry to the IGU National Junior Tour for the next season.
Zahed Khan who is placed third on the Order of Merit and Aman Singhal (No.8) are the qualifiers from Category ‘A’ while Sandeep Yadav and Manish Rajak head the qualifiers in Category `C’ after having finished first and second respectively on the Order of Merit in their category. Rajib Ali and Kaushal Bagrodia head the Category `D’ qualifiers while Chitrangadha Singh is the lone qualifier in the Girls Category ‘D’.
Tata Steel who support various sports have adopted golf in a big way and are very keen to grow the game from the grass root level. The Tata Steel IGU East Zone junior Tour is a true challenge to unearth talent and help young players to take up a game and prepare them to play the sport professionally. This has been proved by the young turks during the current season which visited three other cities other than Kolkata – Patna, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneswar and saw as many as 90 players in contention for a slot in the elite National final.
List of qualifiers
Category A: Zahed Khan (RCGC), Aman Singhal (RCGC)
Category B: Yashvardhan Sarda (Tolly), Sharif Khan (JAMSHEDPUR), Gurshan S Grewal (RCGC), Anmol Mahajan (RCGC), Amit Shaw (KOL), Kushay Kejriwal (RCGC).
Category C: Sandeep Yadav (KOL), Manish Rajak (KOL), Devansh Chadha (RCGC), Rohil Chokhany (RCGC)
Category D: Rajib Ali (KOL), Kaushal Bagrodia (Tolly), Arav Shanghavi (Tolly), Aryaman Chakraborty (RCGC)
Girls Category D: Chitrangada Singh (RCGC)