Chadha escapes unscathed

Kolkata: Abhijit Chadha of Chandigarh almost faced elimination but he kept his cool to pip Raghav Wahi of J & K by 1 up in the match play of the Goodricke East India championship at the RCGC here on Tuesday. Three up against Wahi after the 13th hole, Chadha found the going tough soon as the J&K golfer went on to win the next three holes and was in a position to repeat the 2009 scene wherein 32nd position (by play-off) had defeated the number one seed. Both Chadha and Wahi halved the 17th but an easy par on the 18th by Chadha helped him fight on for another day. Playing against young Angad Cheema, veteran Gagan Verma proved his mettle with six birdies and won on the 18th hole.The results: Abhijit Chadha bt Raghav Wahi 1 up, Chikkarangappa bt Sher Ali 5 & 4, Rohan Shroff bt Samrat Basu 21st , Gagan Verma bt Angad Cheema 1 up, Col Ajay Singh bt Aditya Bhandarkar 1 up, Siddharth Semwal bt Kanishk Madan 1 up, Karan Vasudeva bt Surya Prakash 3 & 2, S. Pappu bt L Selvadurai 5 & 4, Samaresh Sardar bt Jasjeet Singh 2 up, Rahul Bajaj bt Raja Sardar 7 & 5, Kader Ali bt M. Wazir 2 & 1, Col S K Lakra bt Capt Varoon Parmar 1 up, Imamul Haque bt Ashbeer Saini21st, Utahan Mane bt Parma Kabul 3 & 2, Sure Ali bt Santee Mehta 3 & 2, Chaplin Joshi bt M Sandi 1 up. PTI