Rahil Gangjee, Yuvraj Sandhu and Arjun Sharma in joint lead

 Rahil Gangjee, Yuvraj Sandhu and Arjun Sharma fired an identical seven-under 63 to share the lead after the first round of the season-opening Professional Golf Tour of India, the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship, on the Tollygunge Club course here on Tuesday.

A shot adrift, S.S.P. Chawrasia was joint fourth with Karandeep Kochhar and Ankur Chadha.

Defending champion Manu Gandas shot a 69 to be tied-45th.

S. Chikkarangappa made a hole-in-one on the sixth hole during his round of an even-par 70. He was placed tied-65^th.

The scores (first round): 63-Rahil Gangjee, Yuvraj Sandhu, Arjun Sharma; 64-Ankur Chadha, S.S.P. Chawrasia, Karandeep Kochhar; 65-Shankar Das, Honey Baisoya, Milind Soni, Jamal Hossain, Saptak Talwar.