<p>Anura Rohana drove home the advantage in the final round at the Karnataka Golf Association on Sunday to register a comfortable three-shot victory in PGTI’s Bengaluru Open Golf Championship on Sunday.</p>.<p>The 45-year-old Sri Lankan struck a steady one-under 71 in the last round to end up with a total of 19-under-269 and thus record his sixth professional win and second win at the KGA.</p>.<p>Patna’s Aman Raj, who came up with the fourth round’s best score of six-under 66, took second place at 16-under-272.</p>.<p>Rohana (67-64-67-71), the third round leader by five shots, built on his massive advantage early in the day with a hat-trick of birdies on the third, fourth and fifth where he made conversions from a range of seven to 15 feet.</p>.<p>When Rohana capitalised on the par-5 11th with another birdie, he looked certain to seal the title as his lead stood at six shots. A couple of poor shots, one off the tee and the other an approach, resulted in a bogey and a double bogey for him on the 13th and 16th holes respectively.</p>.<p>However, the errors didn’t affect the final outcome of the tournament as Rohana still romped to victory by an impressive margin. Rohana, a Colombo-resident, took home the winning cheque worth Rs 9,69,900 which helped him climb from 21st place to 10th position in the 2018 PGTI Order of Merit.</p>.<p>"I just played my own game today and didn’t worry too much about the other contenders. I knew with an overnight five-shot lead, all I needed to do was put my head down and repeat what I had done over the last two days," said Rohana, who last won at the KGA in 2011.</p>.<p>“After being four-under through 11, I knew I had it in the bag and was quite relaxed on the course. The following bogey and double-bogey didn’t really affect me as none of my rivals really made a serious charge on the back-nine. My next aim now is to achieve my best ever rank on the PGTI Order of Merit. I was fourth last year. I want to finish higher than that this year."</p>.<p>Aman (68-67-71-66), a winner on the PGTI this year, carded a bogey-free 66 on day four to emerge runner-up. He finished three shots behind the winner.</p>.<p>Seventeen-year-old Aadil Bedi (69) of Chandigarh claimed third place, his best finish as a professional so far, at 15-under-273.</p>.<p>Last year’s champion Udayan Mane of Ahmedabad and Bengaluru’s C Muniyappa took a share of sixth place at 13-under-275.</p>
<p>Anura Rohana drove home the advantage in the final round at the Karnataka Golf Association on Sunday to register a comfortable three-shot victory in PGTI’s Bengaluru Open Golf Championship on Sunday.</p>.<p>The 45-year-old Sri Lankan struck a steady one-under 71 in the last round to end up with a total of 19-under-269 and thus record his sixth professional win and second win at the KGA.</p>.<p>Patna’s Aman Raj, who came up with the fourth round’s best score of six-under 66, took second place at 16-under-272.</p>.<p>Rohana (67-64-67-71), the third round leader by five shots, built on his massive advantage early in the day with a hat-trick of birdies on the third, fourth and fifth where he made conversions from a range of seven to 15 feet.</p>.<p>When Rohana capitalised on the par-5 11th with another birdie, he looked certain to seal the title as his lead stood at six shots. A couple of poor shots, one off the tee and the other an approach, resulted in a bogey and a double bogey for him on the 13th and 16th holes respectively.</p>.<p>However, the errors didn’t affect the final outcome of the tournament as Rohana still romped to victory by an impressive margin. Rohana, a Colombo-resident, took home the winning cheque worth Rs 9,69,900 which helped him climb from 21st place to 10th position in the 2018 PGTI Order of Merit.</p>.<p>"I just played my own game today and didn’t worry too much about the other contenders. I knew with an overnight five-shot lead, all I needed to do was put my head down and repeat what I had done over the last two days," said Rohana, who last won at the KGA in 2011.</p>.<p>“After being four-under through 11, I knew I had it in the bag and was quite relaxed on the course. The following bogey and double-bogey didn’t really affect me as none of my rivals really made a serious charge on the back-nine. My next aim now is to achieve my best ever rank on the PGTI Order of Merit. I was fourth last year. I want to finish higher than that this year."</p>.<p>Aman (68-67-71-66), a winner on the PGTI this year, carded a bogey-free 66 on day four to emerge runner-up. He finished three shots behind the winner.</p>.<p>Seventeen-year-old Aadil Bedi (69) of Chandigarh claimed third place, his best finish as a professional so far, at 15-under-273.</p>.<p>Last year’s champion Udayan Mane of Ahmedabad and Bengaluru’s C Muniyappa took a share of sixth place at 13-under-275.</p>