'Elated for Indian golf, DP World event will showcase brand India'

The iconic Delhi Golf Club (DGC) will host the inaugural edition of the DP World India Championship this week with world No.2 and fivetime Major winner Rory Mcilroy and fellow Ryder Cup-winning star Tommy Fleetwood headlining the tournament this week.

- Shantanu Srivastava

As international competition returns to DGC after three years with the richest professional golf event in India, HT spoke to DGC president Raj Khosla on the club's preparations and course conditions.

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It's truly a landmark event for Indian golf, and it took us a lot of lobbying, single-minded purpose, and backchannel efforts to get an event of this magnitude to our country.

As a club, we are elated, but not so much for ourselves. We are actually elated for Indian golf and the country as a whole because it gives us a chance to showcase not only golf, but also our country.

For stars like Rory Mcilroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry, it's their first trip to India. So, our objective is to send them back thinking when they can come back again really soon.