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Nepal No 1 pro Bhuwan Nagarkoti advanced to the quarter-finals of the Surya Nepal NPGA Match Play, the fourth event under Surya Nepal Golf Tour 2021-22, at the Royal Nepal Golf Club on Tuesday. Top-ranked Bhuwan defeated 18th-ranked Sachin Bhattarai 6\/4 in the first round. Bhuwan also became the biggest winner of the day as he was 6-up with four holes remaining. He will next play against ninth-ranked Dinesh Prajapati, who beat 10th-ranked Surya Prasad Sharma 3\/2.<\/p>\n
Top 16 professional golfers in the Order of Merit of Surya Nepal Golf Tour 2018-19 season were eligible to participate in the tournament. Second-ranked Shivaram Shrestha and 14th-ranked Deepak Acharya did not take part in the tournament allowing 17th-ranked Shiva Kumar Majhi and 18th-ranked Sachin Bhattarai to take their places. No 3 Bikash Adhikari, No 4 Sanjay Lama, No 5 Dhana Bahadur Thapa, No 6 Rame Magar, No 7 Jayaram Shrestha and No 10 Deepak Magar also advanced to the quarter-finals. Third-ranked Bikash Adhikari defeated Shiva Kumar Majhi, while fourth-ranked Sanjay Lama beat No 15 Ram Krishna Shrestha with identical scores of 5\/4. Fifth-ranked Dhana Bahadur Thapa beat No 13 Bal Bhadra Rai and sixth-ranked Rame Magar edged past Bhuwan Kumar Rokka in the final hole.Winner of the season-opening event, Surya Nepal Kathmandu Open, Jayaram Shrestha outplayed No 12 Krishna Man Rajbahak 5\/4, while No 11 Deepak Magar upset eighth-ranked Rabi Khadka on the second extra hole after they were tied on regulation 18 holes. Four quarter-finals and two semi-final matches will be played on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The third-place match and final will be played on Thursday. All other matches are played over 18 holes, while the finalists will compete in a 36-hole contest. The tournament, organised by Nepal PGA under the sponsorship of Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd, carries a cash purse of Rs 200,000. Top four pros will receive Rs 50,000, Rs 30,000, Rs 22,000 and Rs 18,000 respectively. Four losing quarter-finalists will get Rs 10,000 each, while the eight pros who lost in the first round will get Rs 5,000 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KATHMANDU Nepal No 1 pro Bhuwan Nagarkoti advanced to the quarter-finals of the Surya Nepal NPGA Match Play, the fourth event under Surya Nepal Golf Tour 2021-22, at the Royal Nepal Golf Club on Tuesday. Top-ranked Bhuwan defeated 18th-ranked Sachin Bhattarai 6\/4 in the first round. Bhuwan also became the biggest winner of the dayContinue reading “Bhuwan Nagarkoti advances to quarter-finals”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":27876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u096b \u092b\u093e\u0932\u094d\u0917\u0941\u0928 \u0968\u0966\u096d\u096e, \u092c\u0941\u0927\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0966:\u0969\u096b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27877,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions\/27877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/27876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}