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Tokyo Olympics Golf: Heartbreak for Aditi Ashok, misses medal by a whisker

Indian golfer Aditi Ashok finishes 4th on the Tokyo Olympics after carding 3-below 68 within the closing spherical. Aditi, who executed 41st within the 2016 Rio Olympics, put up a daring indicate and remained within the pause three positions within the critical three rounds at Tokyo Olympics which no utterly different Indian golfer has ever managed to enact.

The 23-year-passe rolled in five birdies to be placed a popular fourth on fifteen-below 201 sooner than Australia’s Hannah Inexperienced and Denmark’s Pedersen who tied for fifth.

World Number 1, the United States of The United States’s Nelly Korda clinched gold with 17 below par. Meanwhile, Japan’s Mone Inami and Recent Zealand’s Lydia Ko had been playing for bronze and silver.

Aditi Ashok misses medal by a whisker. Finishes at 4th spot.


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Within the critical 8 holes of the route, Aditi had a flawless originate up with 3 birdies which integrated relieve-to-relieve ones on holes 5 and 6. Nelly Korda who used to be sailing very with ease within the closing spherical, had a effort indicate when she put a double bogey on seventh which gave Ashok and Lydia Ko of Recent Zealand an opportunity to be tied up on the pause of the leaderboard. At that second within the match, all three gamers had been tied up on the pause for the critical plan with a -14.

The Indian had a rough pause to outward holes as she sank her first bogey of the day and soon on second inward she put but some other bogey after getting par on 10th. Meanwhile, Nelly Korda then stunningly recovered from that double bogey for 3 straight birdies and moved relieve to the pause.

Mone Inami soon chanced on herself within the medal fray on greens because the Eastern sank four straight birdies on holes 12, 13, 14, 15 to receive the sole own a watch on of the second plan. Going into the closing three holes of the route Mone had already putt 8 birdies within the day.

Ashok saved her nerves to putt birdie in 13th and 14th and par on 15th which helped her to own in high-4 with the closing three holes to play. Lydia Ko then proceeded to putt a bogey on 16th while Ashok par seen her tied for the third plan.

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With the leaders already teed off on the penultimate hole, the play used to be all of sudden suspended due to the harmful weather within the spot. Shortly after play resumed and Aditi started with a par, and Ko with a clutch birdie to verbalize the third plan alone going into closing. Eastern Inami used to be the accurate utterly different participant to catch birdie in 17th which seen her tying up for 1st with Nelly.

Within the closing hole of the route, Mone putted for bogey — out of the bunker. Meanwhile Aditi, Nelly, and Ko putted for par.

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