All eyes on McIlroy in DP World India Championships

Rory McIlroy would be the cynosure of all eyes when he tees off from the tenth gap on the historic Delhi Golf Club for the $4 million DP World India Championships right here on Thursday morning.

The five-time Major champion headlines a discipline that features Ryder Cup European teammates Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood, his captain Luke Donald and a number of world-class gamers together with Viktor Hovland and Ben Griffin.

Of these, Fleetwood and Lowry are maybe the one two who’ve been to India earlier than – Fleetwood performed on the Indian Open in 2016 and Lowry additional again in 2010, when he performed the Avantha Masters. Since then, each gamers have had a profitable profession and are available into the week with not simply the Ryder Cup trophy underneath their belts but in addition ranked fifth and twenty fifth on the planet. 

However, it received’t be a straightforward outing for McIlroy on a course that some describe as ‘claustrophobic’ for its slender strains with little scope for error. “I suppose the instant factor I’m hoping for proper now’s to play good first two days and not less than be right here for the weekend and hopefully benefit from the weekend after that,” McIlroy admitted on the eve of the occasion.

McIlroy has been teamed with Viktor Hovland and US Ryder Cup crew member Ben Griffin to begin from the tenth tee at 7.25 am whereas Lowry, Fleetwood and Donald will start at 12.10 pm from the first.

In the combination will even be 26 Indians together with Anirban Lahiri, Shiv Kapur and Shubhankar Sharma, golfers who’ve had a number of expertise on the course and hoping to experience the house benefit of their seek for a DP World Tour title at residence. Kapur, Lahiri and Sharma will all be in motion early morning.

The DP World India Championship, the richest-ever skilled golf occasion in India with a $4 million prize fund – for context, the Indian Open, the marquee occasion up to now within the nation, had a $2.25 million purse – will even have Indian kids Veer Ahlawat and Yuvraj Singh eager to impress.

The first tee off has been scheduled at 6.35 a.m with the final group at 1 pm and the best way Delhi’s climate has been behaving, while you begin may find yourself making a number of distinction to the ultimate consequence.