First success on the HotelPlanner Tour with shivers for the English Joshua Berry, who won with 277 (72 62 70 73, -11) shots in the Kolkata Challenge. In fact, leader in the two central rounds, he was caught up in the fourth, in which he shot over par (73, +1), by the Indian Om Prakash Chouhan, the Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen and the Austrian Lukas Nemecz, but then on the second playoff hole he scored the winning birdie.
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HotelPlanner Tour, results
On the Royal Calcutta Golf Club course (par 72), in Kolkata in West Bengal in India, the very regular Renato Paratore, who also plays on the DP World Tour, finished 22nd with a 284 (71 71 71 71, -4), who with his fourth 71 (-1, four birdies, one bogey, one double bogey) recovered eight positions and obtained the best seasonal result on the former Challenge Tour. Also rising is Stefano Mazzoli, from 45th to 29th with a 285 (72 68 75 70, -3), who for the second consecutive year also plays on the Asian Tour, while Michele Ortolani, 40th with a 287 (69 73 71 74, -1), making his debut in 2025, lost ground.
The Austrian Maximilian Steinlechner, fifth with 278 (-10), last year in evidence on the Alps Tour (one victory), and finished in sixth place with 279 (-9) the Indian S.S.P. Chawrasia, who preceded the English Eddie Pepperell and George Bloor, the Indian Samarth Dwivedi, the Portuguese Thomas Gouveia, the Dutch Daan Huizing, the Finnish Lauri Ruuska and the Australian Hayden Hopewell, seventh with 280 (-8).
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Joshua Berry, 19 years old from Doncaster, professional since 2023, also has the card for the DP World Tour (where in February he finished seventh in the Kenya Open). He won it at the Qualifying School (10th) where he had to return for the second consecutive year having lost the one he had already taken at the first attempt at the end of 2023 (17th). It is worth remembering that in the second round with a 62 (-10) he set a new course record that had stood for 28 years. For the title he received a check for 44,284 euros on a prize pool of approximately 275,000 euros (300,000 dollars the official figure). The following did not pass the cut that fell at 144 (par): Aron Zemmer, 84th with 146 (73 73, +2), Lorenzo Scalise, 117th with 149 (75 74, +5), and Enrico Di Nitto, 137th with 152 (72 80, +8).
