Amandeep Drall takes lead on opening day

Rookie Amandeep Drall carded 2 over 74 in windy conditions to grab the early lead on day one of the 13th Leg of the Hero Women's Professional Golf Tour at the Coimbatore Golf Club here today.
Trailing her in the second position by one stroke is Delhi's Vani Kapoor. The INR 5,00,000 event will culminate on August 7.
Amandeep, who is chasing her second professional title, had an indifferent start, as her first stroke went into hazard which resulted into a double bogey on the 1st hole followed by a bogey on the 2nd hole.
Her lone birdie in her front nine came on the 7th hole.

The Panchkula youngster played with much more control in latter half carding two birdies on the 12th and 14th holes, with an equal number of bogies on the 10th and 16th holes. Her total of three birdies was the maximum by any player on the day.
Hero Order of Merit leader Vani Kapoor had an off day in the field. She dropped four shots on the 3rd, 6th, 7th and 12th, with a lone birdie on the 5th hole. She finished with a score of 3 over 75 to end the day in the second position.

Kapurthala's Gursimar Badwal, Pune's Shweta Galande and Chandigarh's Saaniya Sharma are tied third with identical scores of 5 over 77 after the first round. Gursimar played a birdie-less round with three bogies on the 3rd, 8th and 12th holes, and a double on the 7th hole.

Shweta's round consisted of a lone birdie on the 15th hole, along with six bogies on the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 13th, 16th and 17th holes. Saaniya struggled to get any sort of momentum going and her error prone round included five bogies on the 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th and 14th holes.
Delhi's Ankita Tiwana returned with a score of 6 over 78 to finish in the sixth position at the end of day's play. Ankita carded two birdies on the 3rd and 15th holes, while dropping shots on the 1st,2nd,4th,5th,7th, and 13th holes, along with a double bogey on the 8th hole.

Kolkata's Neha Tripathi carded a birdie on the 8th hole and five bogies on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th holes in the front nine, while in the back nine she had a bogie on the 16th hole, along with two double bogies on the 13th and 18th holes, and a lone birdie on the 15th hole to end her first round in the seventh position with a score of 8 over 80.
Jaipur's Afshan Fatima and Delhi's Ayesha Kapur are tied for the eighth spot with identical scores of 11 over 83 after 18 holes.
The Hero Women's Professional Golf Tour 2015 comprises a total of 19 legs spanning across key locations in India.