Paris 2024 Olympics golf: India’s Diksha Dagar, Aditi Ashok tied at 14th after second round

India’s Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok are tied together in the T14 position after the second round of the women’s golf event at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Thursday.

Competing at the Golf National, Diksha Dagar, who was seventh after the opening day, slipped down the leaderboards after carding a par 72. Dagar sunk two birdies in the round but a double bogey on the par-five 18th hole saw her good work undone.

The 2021 Deaflympics gold medallist had also carded a bogey in the same hole on the opening day.

Aditi Ashok, meanwhile, managed a one-under 71 on the day. India’s top-ranked women’s golfer, who narrowly missed a medal at Tokyo 2020, sunk four birdies and two bogeys on the front nine but disappointed on the back nine with a single bogey.

Diksha and Aditi, both Tokyo Olympians, still have two rounds to climb up on the leaderboard as there are no cuts in the field for golf at the Olympics. The Indian women golfers will be back for the third round on Friday.

The women’s golf at Paris 2024 features 60 golfers, who will compete over four days in four rounds. Each round consists of 18 holes.

Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux, who shattered the Olympic record with an eight-under 28 on the front nine, climbed up to the top of the leaderboard.

Metraux holds a narrow one-shot lead over the People’s Republic of China's Yin Ruoning, who climbed up 11 spots after carding a seven-under on Thursday following a par in the opening round.

New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko is third with a five-under.

Celine Boutier of France, who held a comfortable three-shot lead after the opening round, has slipped down to T6 after a disastrous four-over on the second day of stroke play.

Golf featured in the Olympic programme in 1900 and 1904 but was dropped from the itinerary after that. The sport made a return at Rio 2016 and has been part of the Olympics since.