Rahil Gangjee fired a flawless three-under 68 in the final round to notch up the best finish among all the Indians in fray at tied ninth in the Queen's Cup at the Santiburi Golf and Country Club here today.
Gangjee rose from overnight tied 13th to tied ninth and was the best among the Indians.
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.
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Meanwhile, 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 superstar Thaworn Wiratchant rallied from five shots back to win an unprecedented 17th Asian Tour victory with a classy one-stroke triumph.
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 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.
Chiragh Kumar (73) was tied 61st and Digvijay Singh (79) was 67th.