LAHORE, Oct 5: The visiting Delhi Club team earned one-point lead against the hosts as the three-day “Together We Golf” exploded into action at the Royal Palm Golf Course here on Friday.

The total points at stake on the first day were seven and the overall score position was 4-3 in India’s favour.

The first round was contested on scrambles match play basis and the teams were divided into seven pairs, who really fought it out against each other, in a rather accomplished manner, playing quality golf.

Hitting from the tees carried that essential touch of accuracy and it was a lesson to see the Indian seniors really hold their nerves, even at crucial stages during the round, using their yoga lessons to extremely good effect, and produce chips and putts that looked extraordinary. This aspect did tilt the result their way and cast a momentary spell of distress amongst their opponents.

For the visiting team the victorious combinations were R.S. Bedi and Ini Bawa, Maj Gen(r) K.M.S. Shergill and Prakash Bhandara, Anil Virmani and Bubbles Suneja and the fourth India pair that achieved victory was Man Mohan Singh and Vijay Dhawan.

From the Pakistan side the hot pairings turned out to be the combinations of Sardar Murad Khan and Maqbool Babri, Asad Sheikh and Moeen Salahuddin and Asad I.A. Khan and Mohammad Ramzan Sheikh.

For the second round of the contest the teams move to Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course with tee off scheduled for 9:30am on Saturday.