Rory McIlroy will be the headline act in the inaugural DP World India Championship in Delhi this week. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Wire
Rory McIlroy’s globetrotting takes on a new dimension this week with the Masters champion competing for the first time in his career in India, where he is the headline act in the inaugural DP World India Championship in Delhi.
While the Northern Irishman’s primary focus headed into the end-of-season schedule is to claim a seventh Race to Dubai order-of-merit title – with Marco Penge’s playoff win in the Spanish Open meaning the Englishman remains in hot pursuit – there is also what McIlroy feels is an obligation to play worldwide.
“I want to go and play in different places in the world and experience things that I haven’t experienced before; 20 years into a career, or 18 years, to be able to do things for the first time. So go to India and play for the first time or whatever that may be, that excites me,” said McIlroy who revealed he’d ta
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