New Delhi: A mid-October chill is beginning to descend on the Capital where some of the world’s finest golfers will generate heat on the Delhi Golf Course when they tee off in the $4 million DP World India Championship this week.
Six-time Major champion Rory McIlroy, who won his second Masters title this year, Aaron Rai, the British player of Indian origin who won the PGA Championship, New Zealand’s Open champion Ryan Fox, fellow Major winners Shane Lowry, Justin Rose, Patrick Reed – he also leads the Race to Dubai DP World rankings – and Bubba Watson will also be there. But months later he switched to the lucrative LIV Golf, and the momentum built on the PGA Tour was lost. Anirban Lahiri is an invitee for the tournament. “As an organisation we need to give a platform to the players. That is the best we can give them. “At the end of the day, when you get one gold medal, sponsors come. No sports can run without sponsors. PGTI CEO Amandeep Johl, the former pro who has been elected DGC captain, was blunt. “We can only take the camel to the water. “There is a total vacuum now. We must bring money in the right manner.
England’s Tommy Fleetwood, who won last year’s inaugural tournament by two shots in a red-hot 2025, and Norway’s Viktor Hovland, both chasing their first Major, will also be there. Although Shubhankar is ending another bleak DP World Tour season—he will need to return to Q-school to retain his card—the 30-year-old whose world ranking has plunged to 936 carries some confidence in the tournament after his six-shot win as an invitee in domestic tour PGTI’s Kapil Dev Invitational Tour Championship at the Jaypee Greens in Greater Noida. The last Indian on the PGA Tour raised high hopes of a breakthrough win after finishing second in the Players Championship in March, 2022. The ecosystem in the last 2-3 years is not helping.
The rest is entirely up to them,” Kapil said at the event named after him. he said the parallel Indian Golf Premier League (IGPL) wasn’t helping While he blamed a lack of drive among the players. You can’t make it drink,” he told HT on Sunday.
