SSP Chowrasia finishes the first round on the 29th position at China Open
Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia scored 3-under 69 in the first round of the Volvo China Open, at Binhai Lake Golf Club in Tianjin, China.
The 33-year-old Indian professional golf player is in the field of the European Tour and the OneAsia Tour co-sanctioned event and delivered his best in the first round.
He started the round on Thursday, by making two consecutive birdies on the first and the second holes. Then he made six pars and one bogey on the front nine holes of the course.
He further improved his performance and scored two more birdies on the 11th and the 16th holes. He finished the tournament on the 29th position and is aiming to deliver his best in the upcoming rounds.
Chowrasia is a two-time European Tour winner. He won the title of the Emaar-MGF Indian Masters in 2008 and recorded the second victory at the 2011 Avantha Masters, by scoring -15 at day-end.
Last week, he missed cut at the Maybank Malaysian Open, as he scored 6-over 150 in two rounds. After missing the cut, he practised most of the time and is planning to record some impressive scores in China.
Since January, he finished on the 24th, his best finish of the year, at the Volvo Golf Champions. Hence, he is facing many hurdles since January but he is aiming high to finish on the top in this week.
Matthew Baldwin is on top of the leaderboard. He displayed a bogey-free round and scored 7-under 65, on Thursday. He also amazed the spectators by making seven impressive birdies and by not carding any bogey till day-end.
"The conditions were a lot calmer when I played then when we played a practice round early in the week," Baldwin said.
"Then, I thought shooting four 72s around this course would be very good. But they did move some of the tees forward and some of the pins were very generous, which helped the score".
Chowrasia is currently four strokes behind Baldwin. However, Chowrasia is capable enough to lead in the upcoming rounds. The only need of the hour is to play well, score more birdies and save bogeys till the end of the tournament.
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