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Karandeep Kochhar will also play in the Asian Tour Q-School later this year to be played in two stages in Thailand. With more than 250 golfers vying for 35 sports on offer, it will be a tough challenge for Kochhar.

On Tuesday, as Angad Vir Singh Bajwa set a world record score with a perfect 60/60 to claim the gold medal at the skeet event in the Asian Shotgun Championship in Kuwait.

Nitesh's national record with a 5Kg hammer also puts him in fourth spot at the world U-18 level, a list topped by Ukrainian Mykhaylo Kokohan, who managed 87.82m in July.

PGTI CEO Uttam Singh Mundy rates the Chandigarh Golf Club course highly and calls Chandigarh a breeding ground for Indian professional golfers.

Having worked as a ball boy at the Eagleton Golf Club in Bengaluru in the early 2000s, Chikkarangappa, whose father worked as a mason in the village, won a prize money of Rs 24,24,750.

19-year-old Karandeep Kochhar, who started playing golf on the insistence of his grandfather Dr GS Kochhar, started the day at the second spot trailing overnight leader, Shiv Kapur, by one shot.

Sanvir Singh, 22-years-old, makes century on debut to help Punjab post 414 versus Andhra Pradesh. After he received a special text from Yuvraj Singh.

Shiv Kapur, who won the Panasonic Open India last year, carded his best round of the year to grab the lead with a score of seven-under-65 on the opening day.

I-League debutants Real Kashmir stun defending champions Miverva Punjab 1-0 to begin their campaign on a high.

The Punjab outfit will face I-League debutants, Real Kashmir FC, in their second match this season at Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex on Wednesday and the team is looking forward to play positively.

Nine foreign golfers and 18 past winners on PGTI will be competing at Chandigarh Golf Club.

The team will also play their home matches in Srinagar with their first match against Churchill Brothers on November 6 and the players are also excited about playing in front of the home crow

Hosting the FIFA U-17 World Cup was just one step for India and I believe the aspirations for the youth teams should be higher.

India collected 13 medals at the Youth Olympics, leaving powerhouses such as Britain and Germany in the shade but is the big haul a pointer to a golden future?

The Daun village-based club finished ninth in their maiden I League season in 2016-17 before winning the title in January this year.

Finishing on the podium at the Worlds is a major feat but in Pooja Dhanda’s case it was even more commendable because she had missed two years to a knee injury.

The para shuttler, who started playing badminton in 2007, started training under coach Surinder Mahajan in 2010 and won the bronze medal in BWF Para-Badminton World Championships held in Germany in 2013.

Sen will be leading the Indian challenge in the World Junior Championship to be held in Canada next month apart from playing in GP and Challenge Series at the senior level

Akash Malik, who won an archery silver at the Youth Olympics, started off at a local academy in Umra.