DP World Tour announces new tournament
The DP World Tour has announced the official launch of a new tournament scheduled for October 16-19 in India. The $4 million DP World India Championship will be held between the Spanish Open, which marks the end of the European Tour, and the Genesis Championship, the final tournament of the regular season scheduled for South Korea before the playoffs in the United Arab Emirates.
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The schedule for the Back 9, the second phase after the "Global Swings", which brings together the most important end-of-season tournaments, is now complete. The European Tour has just announced the official launch of the DP World India Championship. This new $4 million tournament will be held from October 16-19 at the Delhi Golf Club. It is co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI).
The addition of the DP World India Championship to the 2025 calendar underscores India's growing influence as a destination for elite golf and a strategic market for DP World. This announcement also follows the success of the 2025 Hero Indian Open, won by Spain's Eugenio Chacarra, and further strengthens the tour's momentum in the region. The tournament also marks the Tour's return to the Delhi Golf Club for the first time since 2016. Originally created in the 1930s, the Lodhi Championship Course hosted the inaugural Indian Open in 1964 and was redesigned in 1977 by five-time Open winner Peter Thomson, before further improvements by Gary Player Design in 2019.
The DP World India Championship slots into the schedule just after the Spanish Open ($3.25 million prize pool) and before the Genesis Championship (October 23-26, $4 million prize pool), which marks the end of the regular season before the two playoff tournaments to be held in Abu Dhabi and Dubai between November 6 and 16, 2025.
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