LAHORE, Nov 19: Pakistan had a bad day as they lost both titles — the J.R. Jayawardene Trophy and International match trophy — on the third day of the 45th National amateur golf championship at the Lahore Gymkhana course on Saturday.

Pakistan lost the Jayawardene Trophy to Sri Lanka by two strokes. Sri Lanka had three day aggregate of 215.

In the team matches, Pakistan lost to India by six strokes.

Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh featured in the international match while Jayawardene trophy was contested between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Pakistani players failed to perform to their true potential particularly their number one ranked player, Vaqas Ahmed.

In fact, Vaqas violated a rule and was disqualified from taking any further part in the championship.

The penalty was in accordance with international rules of golf.

Vaqas played the stroke from wrong place after his ball went into a pond.

He did not correct the mistake and at the end of the day a Sri Lankan player pointed it out to the referee who disqualified him.

In the contest for the individual national title, Chiragh Kumar of India further consolidated his position with a third day superb round of 67.

Going into the final phase, he looks in full command to land championship title.

There are two other contenders M Siddikur Rehman of Bangladesh, who is four strokes behind Chiragh and Tariq Mehmood of Pakistan. Tariq was in deficit of seven strokes but he has the ability to stage an upset.

Results:

206-Chiragh Kumar (Ind) 68+71+67

210- M. Siddikur Rehman (BD) 72+69+69

213-Tariq Mehmood (Pak) 71+72+70

216-Gagan Verma (Ind) 77+71+68

217- M. Ali Hai (Pak) 73+72+72

217-Fakkar Imam (Gar) 67+77+73

217- M. Waseem Rana (DHA) 74+74+69

Abdul Haq of Peshawar is the new senior’s champion. Javed A. Khan of Lahore Gymkhana ended up as runner-up losing by one stroke to the winner. Lt. Gen. M. Tariq came third, in spite of a sore shoulder.

Miss Vaishav Sinha of India is leading the ladies section.

At 145, she is 12 strokes ahead off Miss Sharmila Nicolet, also of India. Jamila Jabbar is third at 161.