<p class="title">Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fired an even-par round of 70, but dropped a few places to tied 13th at the midway stage of the Honda Classic at the PGA National here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lahiri, whose best finish this season has been tied 10th at the Mayakoba Classic in early November, has missed his last two cuts at the Desert Classic and the Genesis Open.</p>.<p class="bodytext">So, to find his putting form and make the cut in a decent position here on Friday, was indeed a good beginning before the upcoming weekend.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lahiri is three-under and tied 13th alongside first round leader, Jhonattan Vegas (64-73), while Korean Sungjae Im and American Keith Mitchell are tied for the lead at six-under.</p>.<p>Lucas Glover, who won the US Open exactly 10 years ago in 2009 at Bethpage, is third at five-under and a big crowd that includes Brooks Koepka are fourth at four-under. The bunch includes Freddie Jacobson, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Adam Svensson, Sung Kang, Adam Schenk, Ryan Armour, Wyndham Clark, and Danny Lee.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Kapur shoots 67</p>.<p>India's Shiv Kapur shot a fine five-under 67 to make an upward move that put him in line for a good finish at the 100th New Zealand Open golf tournament at Queenstown.</p>.<p>Among others, S Chikkarangappa (68) moved one place up to tied 25th after being tied with Kapur overnight. The third Indian in fray, Ajeetesh Sandhu shot two-under 70 and is now placed tied 42th.</p>.<p>Australian Zach Murray (70), who began the second day with a five-shot lead, is now 17-under, just a shot ahead of Kiwi Josh Geary (63) at 16-under.</p>.<p>Chikka was very aggressive with seven birdies against three bogeys in his 68.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Diksha makes cut</p>.<p>India's Diksha Dagar displayed her consistency with a second straight round of one-under 70 to make the cut at the ACTWEAGL Canberra Classic on Saturday, reports PTI from Canberra.</p>.<p>With rounds of 70-70, Diksha was two-under at 140, tied 23rd and nine shots behind the leaders, Slovenia's Katja Pogacar (64) and Dutch Anne Van Damm (63), at the Royal Canberra.</p>.<p>The leaders were 11-under and breathing down their neck was Carly Booth of Scotland who shot six-under 65 to be third.</p>.<p>India's other players Vani Kapoor (72-75), Tvesa Malik (76-74), Amandeep Drall (73-78) and Astha Madan (77-76) missed the cut, which fell at one-over and 58 players including one amateur made the cut.</p>
<p class="title">Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri fired an even-par round of 70, but dropped a few places to tied 13th at the midway stage of the Honda Classic at the PGA National here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lahiri, whose best finish this season has been tied 10th at the Mayakoba Classic in early November, has missed his last two cuts at the Desert Classic and the Genesis Open.</p>.<p class="bodytext">So, to find his putting form and make the cut in a decent position here on Friday, was indeed a good beginning before the upcoming weekend.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lahiri is three-under and tied 13th alongside first round leader, Jhonattan Vegas (64-73), while Korean Sungjae Im and American Keith Mitchell are tied for the lead at six-under.</p>.<p>Lucas Glover, who won the US Open exactly 10 years ago in 2009 at Bethpage, is third at five-under and a big crowd that includes Brooks Koepka are fourth at four-under. The bunch includes Freddie Jacobson, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Adam Svensson, Sung Kang, Adam Schenk, Ryan Armour, Wyndham Clark, and Danny Lee.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Kapur shoots 67</p>.<p>India's Shiv Kapur shot a fine five-under 67 to make an upward move that put him in line for a good finish at the 100th New Zealand Open golf tournament at Queenstown.</p>.<p>Among others, S Chikkarangappa (68) moved one place up to tied 25th after being tied with Kapur overnight. The third Indian in fray, Ajeetesh Sandhu shot two-under 70 and is now placed tied 42th.</p>.<p>Australian Zach Murray (70), who began the second day with a five-shot lead, is now 17-under, just a shot ahead of Kiwi Josh Geary (63) at 16-under.</p>.<p>Chikka was very aggressive with seven birdies against three bogeys in his 68.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Diksha makes cut</p>.<p>India's Diksha Dagar displayed her consistency with a second straight round of one-under 70 to make the cut at the ACTWEAGL Canberra Classic on Saturday, reports PTI from Canberra.</p>.<p>With rounds of 70-70, Diksha was two-under at 140, tied 23rd and nine shots behind the leaders, Slovenia's Katja Pogacar (64) and Dutch Anne Van Damm (63), at the Royal Canberra.</p>.<p>The leaders were 11-under and breathing down their neck was Carly Booth of Scotland who shot six-under 65 to be third.</p>.<p>India's other players Vani Kapoor (72-75), Tvesa Malik (76-74), Amandeep Drall (73-78) and Astha Madan (77-76) missed the cut, which fell at one-over and 58 players including one amateur made the cut.</p>