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India win team medal at Nomura Cup after 38 years

The President of the Indian Golf Union, Rohit Amit, hailed Indian team’s performance. “This performance of the Indian team shows how Indian golf has progressed in recent times. They won a silver medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou and then the Asian Junior gold and now the bronze at the prestigious Nomura Cup.

“The Indian team has been going great guns and we have a fine bunch of young players, who will bring more laurels to the country. Individual performances of players like Khalin Joshi, third at Nomura Cup, besides Abhijit Chadha, winner of Faldo Series Asia Grand Final and Chikkarangappa shows Indian golf is in a very good health

” The High Performance coach of the Indian Golf Union, Alan Singh, said, “The Indian boys were superb and they did well on each of the four days and sometimes under very tough conditions. Their combination was excellent and this should be great for Indian golf.”

Final Team standings (after four rounds): 1. Australia 207 + 212 + 220 + 201 = 840 2. New Zealand 211 + 224 + 217 + 209 = 861 3. India 208 + 226 + 220 + 211 = 865 4. Korea 218 + 213 + 232 +207 = 870 5. Japan 215 + 233 + 233 + 206 = 887 Indian golfers’ final Individual scores: Khalin Joshi 285 (-3) T-3 Chikkarangappa 291 (+3) T-7 Abhijit Chadha 294 (+6) T-12 Angad Cheema 300 (+12) T-25.

source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com/ PTI / August 19th, 2011