DP World India Championship: Tom McKibbin one shot off lead in India with Rory McIlroy three additional again
DP World India Championship, day one leaderboard
-6 N Norgaard (Den); -5 T McKibbin (NI), E Chacarra (Spa), T Detry (Bel); -4 S Jamieson (Sco), R MacIntyre (Sco), E Ferguson (Sco), O Prakash Chouhan (Ind), M Armitage (Eng), A Meronk (Pol) (5*); -3 B Robinson Thompson (Eng), H Townsend (Swe)
Selected others: -2 R McIlroy (NI), T Fleetwood (Eng); Level J Rose (Eng), L Donald (Eng); +3 S Lowry (Ire)
*Denotes variety of holes performed earlier than play ended on day one
Tom McKibbin sits one shot off the lead, with fellow Northern Ireland participant Rory McIlroy an additional three photographs again, after a severely weather-disrupted opening day of the DP World India Championship in New Delhi.
Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard tops the leaderboard on six underneath after firing a six-under-par spherical of 66 which included an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys on the Delhi Golf Club.
McKibbin, Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra and Belgian Thomas Detry are all 5 underneath after additionally finishing their opening rounds.
Play was suspended due to lightning shortly after 06:30 BST, and didn’t resume till 5 hours later, leaving lots of the area unable to complete their first 18 holes and stopping others from beginning their rounds.
McKibbin posted six birdies, along with his card marred by a solitary bogey, to place himself nicely in rivalry after day one.
Starting on the tenth gap, the 23-year-old picked up photographs at 4 consecutive holes between the twelfth and the fifteenth, earlier than dropping a shot on the par-four sixteenth.
Further birdies on the 18th and the third elevated him to joint prime spot, earlier than Norgaard moved a shot forward with a scintillating late cost of 1 eagle and 5 birdies in his closing seven holes.
McKibbin’s sole DP World Tour win up to now got here within the European Open in Germany in 2023 and since January 2025 he has been a part of the LIV Golf tour.
He has secured top-six finishes on the British Masters and Irish Open on the DP World Tour this season.
A trio of Scots: Scott Jamieson, Robert MacIntyre and Ewen Ferguson, sit three underneath, together with India’s Om Prakash Chouhan and Marcus Armitage of England.
McIlroy bogeyed the primary shot of his spherical, the tenth, however bounced again with birdies on the thirteenth, fifteenth, 18th and second holes, earlier than giving up an additional shot to par on the third.
The back-to-back Masters champion is joined on two underneath by Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.
McIlroy is third within the Race to Dubai standings earlier than this week’s match, behind chief Patrick Reed and second-placed Chacarra.
