SHUBHANKAR SHARMA, two-time DP World Tour winner, will spearhead the home challenge when he joins global stars Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood at the $4 million DP World India Championship.
Sharma, who recently represented India at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, made history in 2017 when he became the youngest Indian to win on the DP World Tour, capturing the Joburg Open title at just 21. He added a second victory two months later with a sublime final-round of 62 at the Maybank Championship, before capping off the season with the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award and topping the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
Now 29, Sharma has six Professional Golf Tour of India titles to his name and a Major Championship top-10 finish, having secured a tied-eighth at The Open in Royal Liverpool in 2023.
He will be joined at Delhi Golf Club by reigning Masters champion and career Grand Slam winner Rory McIlroy, alongside Tommy Fleetwood — a seven-time DP World Tour champion, Olympic silver medallist, and the newly crowned FedExCup champion.
Launched this season by DP World and the DP World Tour, the DP World India Championship is co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI). With a prize fund of $4 million, it marks the richest purse ever for a DP World Tour event in India.
The tournament will be the eighth of nine events in the ‘Back 9’ phase of the 2025 Race to Dubai, building towards the season-ending DP World Tour Play-offs and the DP World Tour Championship in November at Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai.
Fans can purchase tickets now to watch an international field in action at Delhi Golf Club from 16–19 October.
Sharma said, “We’re all very excited about the DP World India Championship. I can’t wait to get back to Delhi Golf Club. It’s a historic course – I played there a lot as a junior and have very fond memories. It’s a tough course, it’s iconic, and I’m sure the DP World Tour players who have played there will remember it well. Having players like Rory McIlroy as the reigning Masters champion and the FedExCup champion Tommy Fleetwood coming to the event, things like this can change golf in India. I remember Tiger Woods playing an exhibition match many years ago and the impact walking with him had on me, so to have such an incredible field coming to the country will make this event really special. There are also so many good players from India just now, it’s a very exciting time. I’m sure fans will see some of those names alongside the global stars on the leaderboard at the DP World India Championship.”
