PATTAYA: India’s high newbie star Avani Prashanth obtained off to an excellent begin with a 4-under 68 that put her in tied fourth place after the primary spherical of the 2024 Ladies’s Beginner Asia Pacific.

She is one shot behind three gamers, Thai duo of defending champion Eila Galitsky, her teammate Novaporn Soontreeyapas, who had a hole-in-one and Taiwan’s Chen-Wei Wu. They shot 5-under 67 every.

India is fielding a six-member workforce. Whereas Avani was the main Indian, two others, who got here near even par rating have been Vidhatri Urs and Saanvi Somu, who shot 1-over 73 every. They have been Tied thirty ninth.

The opposite scores have been disappointing. Keerthana Rajeev Nair (81) and Heena Kang (81) have been T-84 and Mannat Brar (82) was 86th.

Avani was tied for fourth place with Thailand’s Pimpisa Rubrong, Amy Im of New Zealand and China’s Yahui Xhang. All of them shot 68 every.

Avani, the winner of the Queen Sirikit Cup people final yr, began from the again 9 with a bogey on Par-5 tenth gap however later made an excellent restoration. She had six birdies and two bogeys in her spherical on the difficult Siam Nation Membership in Pattaya, Thailand. Avani birdied 3 times between the thirteenth and the sixteenth.

Avani was blissful along with her spherical and mentioned: “I positively am. The way in which I began, I used to be fairly confused about how the day was going to go. However then, you realize, I took management of my full spherical by the point I used to be on the thirteenth, and that basically put issues in place. I am so glad it turned out the way it did.

“I put myself in good positions from there on and I set myself up for a birdie on practically each gap from there. Those that dropped, dropped, and those that did not, I will in all probability get them tomorrow.”