Veer Ahlawat to headline DP World Players Championship which tees off on Tuesday

Veer Ahlawat will headline the DP World Players Championship which will tee off at the Classic Golf & Country Club in Nuh, Haryana, from Tuesday.

The tournament, which offers a prize purse of Rs 1 crore, will see participation of 130 professionals. The strong field at the event boasts of top Indian professionals Veer Ahlawat, Om Prakash Chouhan, Manu Gandas (all former DP World PGTI Order of Merit champions) as well as Saptak Talwar (2026 DP World PGTI Order of Merit leader), Khalin Joshi and Honey Baisoya (both winners on the DP World PGTI this season) and Angad Cheema (two-time winner on the DP World PGTI last year).

Honey Baisoya

Sri Lanka’s N Thangaraja (three-time winner on the DP World PGTI last year) will be the leading foreign name in the field.

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Besides Veer Ahlawat and Manu Gandas, the host region of Gurugram and Nuh will be represented by prominent names such as Dhruv Sheoran and Tapendra Ghai (both winners on the DP World PGTI) as well as Manish Thakran and Shivendra Singh Sisodia (both winners on the DP World PGTI NexGen) and Kushal Singh, Manav Bais and Saurav Rathi.

DP World and PGTI announced a landmark multi-year partnership in January this year, under which the global logistics leader DP World became the title partner and official umbrella partner of the PGTI, India’s premier professional golf tour.

PGTI, in a release, thanks its umbrella partner DP World as well as its tour partners Axis Bank, Amul, Campa, Kalyani, Amrutanjan Enerlyte, Golf Plus Monthly and Golf Design India, for contributing to the growth and promotion of professional golf in India.