NEW DELHI, March 30: It is not often that Shamim Khan gets to play on the main course at the delhi Golf Club. And when he does he tries to learn as much as he can from it. And this morning in the first round of the Rs 7.7 lakh 25th SRF Open Golf tournament, he put all that into practice and came up with a magnificient career-best card of seven under 65 to lead the field.That ensured that the glittering field, which includes three Indian Open winners, Ali Sher, Firoz Ali and Ali Sher, in the background at least for the day.
Leading scores (18 holes): 65 Shamim Khan; 67 Vijay Kumar, Shiv Prakash; 69 Ali Sher, Arjun Atwal; 70 Basad Ali, Jyoti Randhawa, Vivek Bhandari; 71 Monish Bindra, Mukesh Kumar; 72 Jumman, Rafiq Ali, Feroz Ali, Asgar Ali, Gaurav Ghei, Prem, Mohd Islam; 73 Balbir Verma, Vikramjit Singh, Binod Pandey, Rohtas Singh.
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