Tournament: Hero Indian Open
Venue: DLF G&CC, New Delhi, India
2024 Champion: Keita Nakajima (JPN)
Prize Fund: USD 2,250,000
Race to Dubai Points: 3,500
Race to Dubai: Tournament 14 of 42
Asian Swing: Tournament 2 of 5
Ryder Cup Points: 1,000

Key Storylines 

Tournament  

• This is the 58th edition of the Hero Indian Open.
• The tournament is co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf Tour of India, one of the DP World Tour’s Strategic Alliance partners.
• This is the second of five counting events on the Asian Swing, the third of five ‘Global Swings’ on the 2025 Race to Dubai
• Hero MotoCorp Ltd. remains as title sponsor for the event. Hero MotoCorp, headquartered in New Delhi (India), has been the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters for 24 consecutive years.
• DLF Golf & Country Club host the tournament for the sixth time. The 18-hole Championship Course was designed by Gary Player and opened in 2015.
• Previous winners of the event include Keita Nakajima (2024), Marcel Siem (2023), Stephen Gallacher (2019), Matt Wallace (2018), S.S.P Chawrasia (2017, 2016), Anirban Lahiri (2015)
• DP World Tour Members who finish in positions one to three only in the final Asian Swing Rankings (at the conclusion of the Hainan Classic) will be exempt into the 2025 US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.

Players

• Past champions of this event teeing it up this week include Keita Nakajima (2024), Marcel Siem (2023), and S.S.P Chawrasia (2017,2016).
• Defending champion Nakajima arrives at DLF G&CC in excellent form having finished runner-up at last week’s Porsche Singapore Classic.
• Last week’s winner Richard Mansell is also in the field. The Englishman secured his maiden DP World Tour title in Singapore and has climbed to tenth position on the Race to Dubai Rankings.
• Compatriot John Parry is third on the Race to Dubai, the highest ranked player in the field this week. The 38-year-old has been in terrific form this season with victory at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open and two runner-up finishes.
• Fellow Englishman Joshua Berry tees it up off the back of red-hot form in India on the HotelPlanner Tour. The 19-year-old secured a maiden victory at the Kolkata Challenge, followed by a second place finish at last week’s Delhi Challenge and he now occupies second position on the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
• After finishing first on last year’s TATA Steel PGTI Ranking, Veer Ahlawat earned playing rights on the DP World Tour for 2025. He won twice in 2024 and earnt record prize money of 15.6 million Rupees.
• Two-time DP World Tour winner Shubhankar Sharma is one of only two Indian players in the field to have won on the DP World Tour. In 264th place, Sharma is currently the highest ranked Indian player on the Official World Golf Ranking.
• Four-time DP World Tour winner Chawrasia will tee it up this week hoping to win his national open for the third time following victories in 2016 and 2017.

Additional Notes

Course

• India’s biggest property developer, Delhi Land and Finance, is the driving force behind the project of DLF City, which incorporates DLF Golf & Country Club.
• The venue started in 1999 with the opening of an 18-hole Arnold Palmer-designed parkland course. During construction, almost 15,000 trees were planted and almost 200 floodlights installed to allow night golf.
• DLF first hosted the DP World Tour in 2008 at the Johnnie Walker Classic.
• In 2014, new land became available and Gary Player was commissioned to build a new course. Player Design built nine holes on the land and reconfigured nine of the existing Arnold Palmer-designed holes.
• The facility now has the 18-hole Gary Player Course and a nine-hole floodlit Arnold Palmer Course.
• The Gary Player course is routed around two large lakes and has two distinctive nines, the Lakes Nine (1-9) and Quarry Nine (10-18).
• DLF first hosted the Indian Open in 2015 and it has been played there since.