After a draw in the first three holes, the match entered sudden death, where Busters emerged winners
Published Date – 29 March 2025, 07:54 PM
Hyderabad: Bunker Busters won the Auro Realty T9 Challenge Cup golf championship here on Saturday.
In the front nine holes, Busters and Tutoroot drew two-all and the same score was repeated in the back nine too.
After the spin of the coin, it was decided to have the play-off in a doubles better ball format would occur in the first three holes. After a draw in the first three holes, the match entered sudden death, where Busters emerged winners.
The result: Round 1 (Front 9): Tutoroot’s Ray Noronha 1 beat Bunker Busters’ Pratim Kumar 0.
2nd singles: N Gautam (Tutoroot) lost to K Raju (Busters) 1.
Doubles 1: Angad Singh & Dinesh Kumar (Tutoroot) 0 lost to S Manger & S Murali (Busters) 1.
Doubles 2: Jasmith Sai & Venu Polineni (Tutoroot) 1beat Lt Col Shailendra Thapliyal & Maj SK Rahamat Ali (Busters) 0.
Final round (back 9):
Singles: Jasmith Sai (Tutoroot) 0.5 drew with Pratim Kumar (Busters) 0.5
Singles 2: P Venu (Tutoroot) 0 lost to K Raju (Busters) 1
Doubles: Ray Noronha & Dinesh Kumar (Tutoroot) 0.5 drew with S Manger & S Murali (Busters) 0.5
Doubles 2: Angad Singh & N Gautam (Tutoroot) 1 beat Lt. Col. Shailendra Thapliyal & Solomon John Sahayam (Busters) 0.
Play-offs: 1st hole – draw.
2nd hole – Tutoroot.
3rd hole – Bunker Busters.
Sudden death & 4th hole: Bunker Busters.
Special prize: Player of the tournament and most valuable player – K Raju (Bunker Busters).