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)
Chosen others: -2 R McIlroy (NI), T Fleetwood (Eng); Stage J Rose (Eng), L Donald (Eng); +3 S Lowry (Ire)
*Denotes variety of holes performed earlier than play ended on day one
Tom McKibbin sat one shot off the lead, with fellow Northern Eire 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 topped the leaderboard on day one after a six-under-par spherical of 66 which included an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys on the Delhi Golf Membership.
McKibbin, Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra and Belgian Thomas Detry all reached 5 beneath as they accomplished their opening rounds.
Play was suspended due to lightning shortly after 06:30 BST, and didn’t resume till 5 hours later, leaving most of the subject 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 competition.
Beginning on the tenth gap, the 23-year-old picked up photographs at 4 consecutive holes from the twelfth to the fifteenth, earlier than dropping a shot on the par-four sixteenth.
Additional 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 remaining seven holes.
McKibbin’s sole DP World Tour win thus far 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 beneath, together with India’s Om Prakash Chouhan and Marcus Armitage of England.
McIlroy bogeyed the primary gap of his spherical, the tenth, however reacted 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 completed on the identical two-under mark as Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.
McIlroy sat third within the Race to Dubai standings earlier than this week’s event, behind chief Patrick Reed and second-placed Chacarra.
