N Thangaraja triumphed with a hard-fought one-over 73 on the final day of the Chennai Open 2025 Powered by CPCL, an INR 1 crore event, played at the Cosmo TNGF Golf Course in Chennai.
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Thangaraja (69-66-63-73), the overnight leader by one shot, came through by one stroke on a high-scoring last day as he totaled 17-under 271 for the week.
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The Colombo resident’s sixth PGTI win and second victory of the season saw him collect the winning prize of INR 15 lakh that lifted him from 12th to sixth position in the 2025 PGTI Order of Merit.
Amardeep Malik (68-71-67-66), who closed the day with an eagle, Shaurya Bhattacharya (67-65-69-71) and Manu Gandas (66-68-65-73), finished joint runners-up at a total of 16-under 272.
Honey Baisoya (72) came in fifth at 14-under 274.
Thangaraja made a slow start to the day with five pars followed by a bogey on the sixth hole even as his nearest rivals Shaurya and Manu made early gains. Thanga, however, was quite consistent thereafter despite the tough pin positions, as he kept hitting the middle of the greens and making two-putts for pars all the way till the 14th.
Thanga then hit a top-notch tee shot on the Par-3 15th and followed that up with a crucial five-feet birdie conversion to rise as the top contender once again. With his closest rivals losing momentum towards the end, Thanga’s bogey on the 16th did not affect him too much as he rolled in the all-important six-feet par putt for victory on the 18th hole.
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Thangaraja, the runner-up at the 2022 Chennai Open also played at Cosmo TNGF Golf Course, said, “Today the pin positions were the toughest that we have had this week and that explains the high scores. I’m happy that I could finally win at one of my favourite courses where I had come close to winning three years back.
“I just stuck to my game-plan of finding the greens and making two-putts to pick up pars because I knew that scoring birdies would not be easy today. After the birdie on the 15th, I gained in confidence and somehow knew that it would be my day. Now with two wins under my belt this season, I’m setting myself even bigger targets for the remainder of the season.”
Amardeep shot the day’s joint lowest score of 66 featuring a closing hole eagle to register his second runner-up finish of the season.
Shaurya began the day with a bang making birdies on his first four holes but slipped out of contention as a result of a string of bogeys thereafter that saw him post a 71.
Manu also made a good start but stumbled from the eighth hole onwards to return a 73.
