{"id":285,"date":"2021-09-04T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=145961"},"modified":"2021-09-04T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T16:46:08","slug":"manu-gandas-eyes-his-first-pro-title-win-at-the-golconda-masters-telangana-open-after-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/manu-gandas-eyes-his-first-pro-title-win-at-the-golconda-masters-telangana-open-after-round-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Manu Gandas eyes his first pro title win at the Golconda Masters Telangana Open after round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gurugram\u2019s Manu Gandas was able to maintain his overnight five-shot lead with a three-under 64 on the third round at the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Golconda Masters Telangana Open at the Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manu Gandas in driver\u2019s seat, maintains 5-shot lead in Rd 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GolcondaMastersTelanganaOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GolcondaMastersTelanganaOpen<\/a> 2021 Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vootygolfcounty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vootygolfcounty<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaldiGolfCounty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HaldiGolfCounty<\/a> Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16hcUn7jqE\">https:\/\/t.co\/16hcUn7jqE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@tstourism <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/incredibleindia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@incredibleindia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkodaIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SkodaIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ApolloInter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ApolloInter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmrutanjanH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmrutanjanH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmexIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmexIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TataSteelLtd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TataSteelLtd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hyderabadgolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hyderabadgolf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U1IPIKKWmM\">pic.twitter.com\/U1IPIKKWmM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGTI (@pgtofindia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pgtofindia\/status\/1434111545269633026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In search of his maiden pro title win, Manu dominated the show while totalling 20-under 186 (64-58-64). He went through a mixed day three with three birdies, two bogeys and an eagle. <\/span>After leading for three successive days, Manu sat in eighth place in the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) Order of Merit with five top-10. His only upside was the front-nine from the bunker for par on the sixth while having missed the short birdie and bogeyed the seventh after finding the water hazard.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 25-year-old managed to keep his five-shot advantage despite finding the water hazard. <\/span><span>\u201cIt was a decent round but not up to my expectations as I missed a lot of short birdie putts. However, today\u2019s three-under (64) is a handy score and would mean less pressure on me in the final round on the morrow,\u201d said Manu <\/span><span>Gandas, reports the Indian Express<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Due to heavy rains in the past two days the waterlogging in specific areas of the HGA course resulted in Hole No.3 to reduce from Par-4 to Par-3 along with the change in hole number 6 and hole number 18 which concluded round three within 67 instead of the usual 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manu Gandas maintained his five-shot lead at the Golconda Masters Telangana Open after round 3 on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1494,2621],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-golf","tag-indian-golf"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}