This week sees the DP World Tour return to DLF Golf and Country Club for the 59th edition of the Hero Indian Open.
Since 2015, the venue has played host to the national open of India and this year marks its ninth edition since it joined the DP World Tour global schedule in 2015.
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.
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Opened in 1999 initially with an 18-hole Arnold Palmer-designed parkland course, it had almost 15,000 trees planted and almost 200 floodlights installed during construction to allow for night golf.
In 2014, new land became available and Gary Player was commissioned to build a new layout.
Gary 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).
Co-sanctioned with the Professional Golf Tour of India, one of the DP World Tour’s Strategic Alliance partners, the Hero Indian Open is the second of four counting events on the Asian Swing and features a US$2,550,000million prize fund.
