Randhawa fails to qualify for The Open

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Berkshire, England, June 27 (UNI) A poor opening round of two-over 72 cost him dearly as Jyoti Randhawa failed to qualify for The Open Championship in Royal Liverpool, finishing a disappointing tied 39th at the European Qualifiers here.

The Asian Tour regular also failed to make it to the list of seven players, who will compete for four tickets in the playoff, which had to be postponed till today due to bad weather.

He finished with a total of one-over 144 after improving his performance in the second round by carding a one-under 69.

Randhawa was off colour in the opening round and dropped two consecutive shots on the first two holes. He recovered to slot a birdie on the third but a brace of bogeys on the seventh and eighth pulled him back again.

Three-over at the halfway mark, Randhawa tried to arrest the slide and hit a birdie on the 10th but again let the advantage slip with a bogey on the 12th. He fired two birdies after that but dropped a shot in between and could not prevent an over-par finish.

Randhawa was on damage control mode in the second round and he started well, gaining two shots between first and fifth, but again hit two successive bogeys on the seventh and eighth to go even-par after the completion of the first nine holes.

His back-nine was slightly better as he hit two birdies against a solitary bogey but that proved inadequate and despite carding a decent one-under 69, Randhawa missed the chance to qualify for the oldest major in the world.

Meanwhile, 14 players qualified from Europe for the 135th edition of the tournament and South African Louis Oosthuizen and Paraguay's Marco Ruiz carded scores of eight-under 132 to book their places as joint leaders of the European qualifiers.

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