Macao: Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri reeled off seven successive birdies to make the play-off but missed the title after losing to Thai Pavit Tangkamolprasert on the final day of the Venetian Macao Open here today.
Lahiri found water on the second shot following an errant drive in the playoff. There were four Indians in top-eight, with Lahiri’s friend, S Chikkarangappa ending tied third, Rahil Gangjee finishing seventh and Rashid Khan signing off tied eighth.
Jyoti Randhawa (71) was tied 34th, SSP Chawrasia (70) and Chiragh Kumar (71) were tied 34th, Shankar Das (75) was tied 46th, Daniel Chopra (70) was tied 51st, Khalin Joshi (71) and Gaganjeet Bhullar (73) were tied 57th and Arjun Atwal (75) was tied 81st.
Pavit seemed to have kept his nerve for the 18th hole birdie, but it turned out that he may have benefitted from the lack of leader-boards on 16th and 17th.
Pavit admitted he didn’t know Lahiri was on a birdie blitz and said, “I didn’t see the scores on the back nine as there was no leader-board.”It was Lahiri’s third second place in four years at Venetian Macao Open and he has won once in 2014.–PTI
