At the Royal Nepal Golf Club, Rame missed a shot on the second hole but saved par on the remaining eight holes.
Golf duo Rame Magar and Ravi Khadka have taken the joint lead on the first day of the Surya Nepal Kathmandu Open Golf. They shot a score of 3-under 65, edging Jayaram Shrestha by 1 stroke.
Jayaram finished third with a 2-under 66. Sanjay Lama was fourth with a 1-under 67, while Bhuvan Kumar Rokka, Nepal's number one pro golfer Neeraj Tamang and Dinesh Prajapati were tied for fifth with an even-par 68. Bhuvan Nagarkoti, who scored a 1-over 69, and amateur golfers Rahul Bishwakarma and Mahendra Fagami took eighth place.
At the Royal Nepal Golf Club, Rame missed a shot on the second hole but saved par on the remaining eight holes. He played the front nine at 1-over 35. After this, he played the back nine without a bogey and achieved birdie success in four holes. He birdied the 10th, 11th, 13th and 18th holes to finish the back nine at 4-under 30. Ravi played the front nine at 2-under 32 and the back nine at 1-under 33 to create a bogey-free scorecard. He birdied the first, ninth and tenth holes and maintained par on the remaining 15 holes.
Jayaram finished the front nine at even-par 34. He birdied the fourth, eighth and ninth holes but missed a shot each on the third, fifth and sixth holes. He recovered on the back nine. Despite a bogey on the 10th hole, he birdied the 12th, 13th and 16th holes to finish the back nine at 2-under 32.
Rahul and Mahendra are tied at the top with a 1-over 69 on the amateur side. Rahul played 1-over 35 on the front nine and an even-par 34 on the back nine. Mahendra, on the other hand, performed brilliantly on the front nine at 4-under 30. But he finished the back nine at 5-over 49. 34 professional and 21 amateur golfers participated in the tournament.
