Lucknow, Oct. 2 -- Noida's Kashif Alam struck a flawless six-under-28 to take the honours in round one of the TATA Steel PGTI Feeder Tour Presented by The Palms Golf Club & Resort here today.

Abhinav Lohan of the DLF Golf & Country Club, Gurugram, was placed second courtesy his round of five-under-29.

As a result of heavy rain for the last one week part of the course was rendered unplayable and as such the round was reduced to nine holes with the par for the course being 34.

Kashif Alam got his round going with a 15-feet birdie conversion on his first hole, the third. He then made further inroads with three consecutive birdies on the eighth, ninth and 15th.

Kashif signed off his round in style with an eagle on the closing 18th where he...