NEW DELHI– Seven-time DP World Tour champion and Olympic silver medalist Tommy Fleetwood will return to India this October to compete in the inaugural $4 million DP World India Championship, joining career Grand Slam winner Rory McIlroy at Delhi Golf Club from October 16 to 19.
Fleetwood, a European Ryder Cup standout, will be making his first appearance in India since 2016. The Englishman rose to prominence by topping the Race to Dubai Rankings in 2017 and making a spectacular Ryder Cup debut in Paris the following year, securing four points out of five to help Europe clinch victory. He has since played in two more Ryder Cups, famously delivering the winning point in Rome in 2023 with a 3 & 1 win over Rickie Fowler.
Off the course, Fleetwood is committed to growing the game through his Tommy Fleetwood Academy, based at Formby Hall in England and at the DP World Golf Performance Centre in Dubai.
The DP World India Championship — launched this year by DP World and the DP World Tour in partnership with the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) — offers the largest prize purse ever for a DP World Tour event in India. The $4 million tournament will feature an elite international field in Delhi.
“I can’t wait to get back to Delhi for the DP World India Championship,” Fleetwood said. “It’s such an amazing place — the people, the food — I’m looking forward to soaking it all in. But mainly, I’m aiming to play some good golf and entertain the Indian fans at an important point in the season. Delhi Golf Club is a tight, strategic course that rewards all styles of play, so I think it’s going to be a very exciting week.”
The event will serve as the eighth of nine tournaments in the “Back 9” phase of the 2025 Race to Dubai, leading up to the season-ending DP World Tour Playoffs and the DP World Tour Championship in November at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. (Source: IANS)
