Local knowledge and experience are significant advantages and there were more than 10 Indian names among the top 10 on the leaderboard after the first round, with Kolkata pro Shankar Das heading the field by one stroke along with Aussie Travis Smyth at five-under 67.
This week's quiz was on Anirban Lahiri, who finished second at The Players, narrowly missing the title by one stroke.
Anirban Lahiri fell short by a stroke at the Players Championship but the second-place finish guarantees him a three-year exemption into the Open Championship.
Lahiri, who started the final round with a one-shot lead, birdied the 17th and needed one more to force a playoff. He came up short of the green, and his pitch was below the cup all the way. He closed with a 69.
Anirban Lahiri was 4-under and T-11 when the midway point of the Players was reached in a week that has seen over 4.5 inches of rain, forcing a Monday finish.
Aditi opened with a birdie but gave the gain away on the sixth with a bogey. The pendulum swung once again and she landed an eagle on Par-5 seventh to turn in one-under.
Anirban Lahiri endured a disappointing start as he carded a 3-over 75 in the first round of the Honda Classic at the PGA National.
The tournament was scheduled to be held from February 17-20 at the DLF Golf & Country Club in Gurugram.
At even par, the Indian golfer was T-63 in the 54-hole event. She birdied ninth, 12th and 18th but dropped shots on first, 13th and 15th.
A fourth-place finisher at the Tokyo Olympics, Aditi, who shot 66 on the first day, closed the week with three birdies against a lone bogey for 2-under 70 that saw her total 4-under 284.
Aditi, who finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, bogeyed second and seventh and birdied fifth and eighth and parred the entire back nine of the course.
Anirban Lahiri was holding the same spot at the halfway stage of the tournament too.
Korda, the world's No 1 and five-time winner in 2021, limited her mistakes on Saturday for a 3-under 69 with four birdies and a bogey, and is 13-under 203 overall.
Shubhankar Sharma, who began the day with a fine birdie, had a double and fought back superbly for a 67, that was the score of the day.
Lahiri, who is playing his first event of 2022, managed just one more birdie after the first four holes and also dropped a shot at the La Quinta Country Club here on Thursday.
Bhatia's 14-under 274 marked the second-lowest 72-hole score in the event's five-season history.
The most famous encounter between Woods and Daly was in 2005 at Harding Park in a World Golf Championship, which ended in a playoff when Daly three-putted from 15 feet.
Team Woods finished tied for fifth place, three strokes behind leaders Team Cink going into Sunday's second and final round
Woods, who endured four back surgeries and multiple knee operations in his career before undergoing a back fusion procedure in 2017, has not set a timeframe to return to the PGA Tour.
Tiger Woods will go out in the final group when he makes his highly anticipated return to competition at this week's PNC Championship in Orlando.
Tiger Woods was driving to a Los Angeles course on February 23 when police say he was driving about 85 mph along a winding suburban road. The SUV crashed through a median and plunged down a hill.
Lee Elder was the first African-American to play in the Masters.
Aditi after a first round of 71 added 74 in the second while Tvesa returned a card of 75, similar to her opening round.
Lahiri, who shot 4-under 68 in the first round, was 2-under for the front nine and stayed there till the 11th.
Kapur will be now playing on the Asian Tour in Thailand in coming days apart from playing in Singapore Open, Saudi International and Indian Open next year.




