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Gangjee finishes tied 9th at Queen's Cup golf

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Press Trust of India Samui (Thailand)
Last Updated : Jun 08 2014 | 5:01 PM IST
Rahil Gangjee fired a flawless three-under 68 in the final round to ensure a top-10 finish at the Queen's Cup here Sunday.
Gangjee rose from overnight tied 13th to tied ninth and was the best among the Indians at the Santiburi Golf and Country Club. After the fourth place at the Championships at Laguna in Singapore, this was Gangjee's second successive top-10 finish and he stays fourth on Asian Tour Order of Merit, which is led by Anirban Lahiri.
Manav Jaini, the best placed Indian overnight stumbled on the front nine with four bogeys and a double bogey and could manage only one birdie on the back nine to shoot a round of 76 and slip to tied 28th, down from seventh.
Thai super star Thaworn Wiratchant rallied from five shots back to win an unprecedented 17th Asian Tour victory with a classy one-stroke triumph on Sunday.
The 47-year-old Thaworn holed a five-foot birdie putt on the closing hole to pip overnight leader Poom Saksansin with a final round of five-under-par 66 to lift the Queen's Cup for the second time in three years.
Jyoti Randhawa (68) was tied 14th with a total of four-under 280, while Rashid Khan (70), Shankar Das (71) and Anirban Lahiri (74) were tied 37th at three-over 287.

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Chiragh Kumar (73) was tied 61st and Digvijay Singh (79) was 67th.
Thai rookie Poom, who had led since the opening day, settled for the runner-up spot in the US$300,000 tournament after a closing 72 while Bangladeshi star Siddikur Rahman, who briefly held the lead on the back nine, signed off with a disappointing 72 to share third place with Thailand's Donlapatchai Niyomchon (68).
The unorthodox swinging Thaworn surged into a one-shot lead with a birdie on 14 but made life difficult for himself by dropping a bogey on 17 after missing a four-foot par attempt. With Poom, who was wobbly with an outward 39, fighting back with birdies on 16 and 17 to make it a three-way tie going into the final hole, Thaworn's experience came through in the end.
Korea's Baek Seuk-hyun was fifth on 276 while Singapore's Choo Tze Huang grabbed his first top-10 on the Asian Tour with a closing 68 for tied sixth place.

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First Published: Jun 08 2014 | 5:01 PM IST

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