Rookie followed up his first round of six-under 64 with an equally impressive five-under 65 on day two to emerge as the halfway leader at the Rs 1 crore golf tournament here on Thursday. (Sports News)
Talwar has a t🧜otal o𒈔f 11-under 129 over two days as the cut came down at one-under 139. Fifty-five professionals made the cut.
Manu Gandas, the 2022 TATA Steel𝔍 PGTI Ranking champion, was placed second at 10-under 13♓0 as he recorded a second straight score of 65.
Talwar of the Jaypee Greens Golf Re▨sort, Greater Noida, who was lying one off the lead in tied second place after round one, picked up birdies on the 10th and 12th from a range of eight to 10 feet to make an early move.
The 24-year♒-old then dropped his only bogey of the day on the 13th but quickly recovered with a great bunker shot to set up birdie o🎉n the 14th.
Talwar went on to add three more birdies 🍌to his card including an 18-feet conversion on the first and a tap-in on the par-3 sixth after having produced a superb tee shot.
“I placed it well today and made good up and downs to keep the momentum going. I turned at three-under and the 18-feet conversion on the first, my best putt of the day, helped me take forward t😼he momentum on the front-nine," said Talwar, currently 38th on the TATA Steel PGTI Ranking with threღe top-10 finishes this season.
“There was just one blemish on my card but other than that, I handled the course well. I hope to keep repeating t🍨he same over the next two days.”
First round leader Akshay Sharma (68) and the 2018 Jaipur Open winner Aman Raj (66) were tied third a꧂t nine-under 131.
TATA Steel PGTI Ranking leader and lasဣt year’s champion Om Prakash Chouhan missed the cut by one shot.
All the Jaipur-based professionals missed the cut🍃.
