Honey Baisoya ends 3-year PGTI title drought with J&Okay Open triumph

Honey Baisoya of Delhi ended a three-year title-drought by lifting the J&Okay Open on the Royal Springs Golf Course in Srinagar with a formidable whole of 18-under 270 together with a cultured last spherical of four-under 68 on Saturday.
Honey was struggling even within the begin of the season as he missed the minimize at Hyderabad Golconda Masters and skipped Panchkula Players Championship however a change in iron, a 2-iron and a putter, introduced the specified distinction with first three spherical scores of 67, 68, and 66 right here.
The six-time PGTI winner who turned professional in 2013 triumphed with four-shot lead forward of Veer Ahlawat of Gurugram (67-71-70-66) who completed with 14-under 274 for his successive runner-up end this season.
Honey, 25, who gained Rs 6,46,600 for his effort additionally took him from eighty fifth to twenty second place within the PGTI Order of Merit.
Aman Raj (68-71-70-66) of Patna too shot a 66 on the fourth and last day to take third place at 13-under 275.
Honey, the in a single day chief by 4 pictures, had a nervy begin on the ultimate spherical choosing birdies solely in seventh and ninth whereas he made some powerful par putts from 5 to 6 ft on the primary six holes.
At the identical time Angad Cheema of Panchkula with 4 birdies on the front-nine was placing strain on the chief.
Honey dropped his first bogey of the event when he three-putted on the thirteenth. That lowered his lead over Veer to simply two pictures. However, Honey made a last push for victory with birdies on the 14th and fifteenth because of some lengthy conversions due to his new putter. The Delhi lad landed his strategy from 134 yards to inside a foot to arrange one other birdie on the seventeenth that every one however sealed the deal for him.
“It still feels like a dream because till last week I was very low on confidence and not even sure of shooting an under-par score. So this win is all the more special. Normally I’m a very aggressive player but with the confidence not being up there I tried to play more conservatively than I usually do. I used the 2-iron a lot and struck it to perfection all week. I also didn’t make mistakes on the green like I had done in preceding events. The goal this week was to make the cut and I ended up winning. So it’s still sinking in,” mentioned Honey after lifting the trophy.

“I was two-under on the front-nine when Angad (Cheema) was playing really well. When he made birdie on the 10th, I was just two shots ahead and two shots mean nothing in a pressure situation in the final round. When Angad found the water on the 11th the pressure eased up for me,” mentioned the champion who final lifted a trophy was in 2018 – the Delhi-NCR Open.
Veer’s final spherical included an eagle-two on the par-4 eleventh gap the place he discovered the opening together with his strategy from 108 yards. He additionally made 5 birdies and a bogey to realize six spots in spherical 4 and is perched third within the Order of Merit.
Aman Raj’s 66, that includes seven birdies and a bogey, lifted him seven locations to 3rd place. Om Prakash Chouhan (66) of Mhow and Angad (70) shared fourth place at 12-under 276.
Chiragh Kumar (67) of Delhi completed an additional shot again in sixth place at 11-under 277.
Viraj Madappa of Kolkata shot the day’s lowest rating of 65 to safe tied seventh together with Kartik Sharma (72) of Gurugram at 10-under 278.
Shravan Desai, who was in a single day tied second, posted a career-best tied ninth at nine-under 279.
Delhi’s Rashid Khan, PGTI Order of Merit chief Karandeep Kochhar of Chandigarh and Delhi-based Kshitij Naveed Kaul had been bunched in tied twelfth at eight-under 280.
Udayan Mane of Pune took tied twenty fifth place at three-under 285 whereas Chikkarangappa of Bengaluru, the final winner at Royal Springs Golf Course eight years in the past, completed tied thirty second at one-under 287.
Indian golf legend Jyoti Randhawa ended the week in tied forty sixth at five-over 293.