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Digboi Golf Links: Noida’s Amardeep Malik, who missed the cut last week in Jaipur, fired a five-under 67 to take the lead at the end of the first round of the Servo Masters 2024 being played at the Digboi Golf Links here on Wednesday. Former champion Honey Baisoya of Delhi, Pune’s Divyansh Dubey, Bangladesh golfer Jamal Hossain, Bengaluru’s Syed Saqib Ahmed and Panchkula’s Abhishek Kumar were all tied for second place at four-under 68.

Deven Bhumij was the highest-placed among the Digboi-based professionals after he returned a round of 73 to be tied for 50th place.

Delhi’s Sachin Baisoya, last week’s winner in Jaipur, was one of the five players bunched in tied seventh place at 69. Two of the prominent names participating this week, Angad Cheema and Udayan Mane, struck scores of 72 to be tied for 36th.