DP World India: Home players hope to shine in top field at DGC

The $4 million event with a field of 138 will be played at the Delhi Golf Club course

- Shantanu Srivastava

If star appearances were the lone criterion, this is already a great year for Indian golf with top draws Bryson DeChambeau and Joaquim Niemann coming to India for the International Series in January.

Itwill be five-time major champion Rory Mcllroy and Tommy Fleetwood who will be the leading lights at this week's DP World India Championship at the Delhi Golf Club (DGC) course. For 26 Indians in the field, the tournament presents a rare chance to rub shoulders with some of the best in the business at home.

The iconic DGC that last hosted an international event in 2022 will play host to the $4 million event co-sanctioned by PGTI with a field of 138. Known for its undulating greens, narrow fairways flanked by thick overgrowth, the 95-year-old course has retained much of its old world charm with some important upgrades made.

The course redesigned by Gary Player in 2019 has given Indian goif some of its finest hours, right from Ali Sher winning the Indian Open in 1991 and 1993 to Gaurav Ghei taking the title in Gadgil Western Masters in 1995 to SSP Chawrasia winning the first of his two Indian Open titles here in 2016. He also won the $2.5 million Indian Masters European Tour event at the DGC course in 2008.