Sri Lankan Thangaraja registers third victory of the season at Bengaluru Open 2025

By Deepak Arora

BENGALURU, Oct 10: Sri Lankan N Thangaraja continued his hot streak by bagging his second title in four weeks and third trophy of the season following his resolute final round performance of two-under 69 at the INR 1 crore Bengaluru Open 2025 Powered by IndianOil played at the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA) course in Bengaluru.

Thangaraja (66-65-66-69) came home the champion by a two-shot margin at a total of 18-under 266 to secure his seventh professional win.

The 44-year-old from Colombo picked up the winning cheque worth INR 15 lakh that took his season’s earnings to INR 82,22,088. Thanga as a result consolidated himself in third position in the PGTI Order of Merit as he came within INR 6.45 lakh of the merit list leader Yuvraj Sandhu.

Manu Gandas (70-63-69-66) of Gurugram finished runner-up at 16-under 268 after he posted a 66 on the last day.

Bengaluru-based Rahil Gangjee shot the final day’s best score of 64 to claim tied third place at 13-under 271 along with Saptak Talwar who carded a 67 on day four.

Seventeen-year-old rookie Manoj S (66) of Bengaluru took fifth place at 12-under 272.

Delhi’s Arjun Prasad (70) finished tied 15th at seven-under 277. Arjun continued in second place on PGTI’s money list and also closed the gap with PGTI Ranking leader Yuvraj Sandhu to nearly INR 2.5 lakh.