Apr 24, 2025 05:02 AM IST
The $4 million event shall be performed from Oct 16-19 with a number of prime European Tour stars anticipated to indicate up
New Delhi: The long-lasting Delhi Golf Membership (DGC) will host DP World Tour’s newest providing later this 12 months with a document prize purse of $4 million, making DP World India Championship the most costly golf event ever performed in India. HT reported the event in January together with the probability of five-time Main winner Rory McIlroy making his India debut within the stated competitors. That chance hasn’t been dominated out but.
Rory McIlroy is among the many main golfers who’re anticipated to mild up DP World India Championship. (Getty Photos by way of AFP)
“DP World Tour is in touch with many top players, including Rory, and we are hopeful that he will turn up,” a senior DGC member informed HT.
The competitors, to be performed from October 16-19 on the Gary Participant-designed course, is co-sanctioned with the Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI). It will likely be eighth of the 9 occasions on the Again 9 section of the 2025 Race to Dubai, constructing in the direction of the season-ending DP World Tour Play-Offs and culminating within the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
The event additionally marks the Tour’s return to DGC for the primary time since 2016 and ends membership’s two-year look forward to a world occasion. Submit its facelift by Gary Participant in 2019, the membership hosted the primary two editions of DGC Open (2022 and 2023) however the Asian Tour co-sanctioned event has since did not return.
The membership signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DP World Tour in January when the latter’s Chief Match Enterprise Officer Ben Cowen flew all the way down to Delhi. Together with McIlroy, who received the 2025 Masters in a playoff with Justin Rose, Hero Indian Open winners Eugenio Chacarra (2025) and Keita Nakajima (2024) are anticipated to tee off on the European Tour competitors.
The DP World India Championship would be the third high-profile males’s golf occasion in India this 12 months, adopted by the maiden Asian Tour and LIV Golf-funded $2 million Worldwide Collection and DP World Tour’s Hero Indian Open final month that provided a handbag of $2.25 million.
“We are delighted to extend our commitment to golf in India by establishing the new DP World India Championship and we look forward to building on our shared vision to grow the game in the country. Our thanks also go to Delhi Golf Club for giving us the opportunity to return to such an iconic venue this October.” Cowen stated.
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