Bandits and The Avengers advance into the Gladiator round of TGL’12

6^th November, Bangalore: Hyderabad, a new addition in Touche Golf League 2012 as a city saw its "The Bandits” gang advanced into the final round, after there brilliant show at Clover Greens Golf Club in Bangalore today. Bandits who were tied fifth yesterday in a stroke play format, made 16 points in the first group to finish on top along with The Avengers gang of Kolkata who took 15 points as a winner of group B.

Venkatpathy Raju, former India cricketer, hogged the limelight despite being disqualified in the strokeplay format of cavalry round yesterday. “I thought it was a practice round and I mistakenly picked the ball in the middle of the fairway. Luckily I won all three matches today and submitted a good score for my gang. I am really looking forward to the final round in Bangkok.”

The man who helped The Avengers to book their birth for Bangkok finale was its captain Siddharth Rai who won all three matches from J. C. Pegu of Classic Ambush, Tony Udagadera of Pin High and Nirav Parikh of Ahmedabad Tigers.

After a stroke play format played yesterday, 8 teams were divided into two groups according to their seeding and the winner of each group made it to the gladiator which would be played at the Lotus Valley Golf Course in Bangkok next month.

In the group A- Mumbai Marauders – sword horde of Mumbai became the runner up with 14.5 points, yesterday’s leader Green Gang of Kolkata made 11 points to get the third place while south zone’s favourite Pin High Aces returned with 6.5 points to finish as fourth.

In the group B – Pin High, another Bangalore’s gang collected 13.5 as a team to finish as a runner-up, Delhi’s Classic Ambush was one shot behind with 12.5 points while Ahmedabad Tigers put together a score of 7 points to finish the day as fourth.