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Playing a bogey-free circular intelligibly is the summons to the apical spot astatine the Delhi Golf Course. On Saturday, Keita Nakajima did it to paper a 65 for a three-day full of 199 astatine the inaugural $4 cardinal DP World India Championship, 17 nether par for the people astatine the extremity of Day Three and 2 shots wide of overnight person Tommy Fleetwood.
Day One person Shane Lowry was a further changeable down connected 202, the communal origin betwixt the 3 being a bogey-free circular connected their champion day. With the play rounds reduced to two-ball groups, Nakajima and Lowry were together, portion Fleetwood was paired with Brian Harman.
The 25-year aged Nakajima, who won the Indian Open past twelvemonth and was runner-up this year, Fleetwood and Lowry are the lone 3 golfers successful enactment present to enactment dependable among the top-five successful the contention implicit the archetypal 3 days.
England’s Tommy Fleetwood plays a changeable astatine the DP World India Championship play tourney astatine the Delhi Golf Club successful New Delhi connected Saturday, October 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
Nakajima started the time 2 shots down Fleetwood, but his circular had 7 birdies. It included an awesome 10-foot birdie connected the precise archetypal hole, and helium bettered it with a 13-feet 1 connected the 5th earlier holing a monster 40-feet birdie putt connected the par-three 12th.
Fleetwood dropped his lone changeable of the time connected the 17th and made up for it connected the last hole, but his 3 birdies till past to 7 by Nakajima made each the difference. The 2 volition beryllium paired for the last circular connected Sunday, battling to drawback the title.
Rory McIlroy, five-way tied 15th connected 206, yet appeared to beryllium knowing the people with conscionable 1 bogey for the round, connected the par-4 11th — a spread helium has struggled with, having dropped shots connected each 3 days — but portion his birdie number remained dependable the errors were minimised for a 4-under 68.
Dhruv Sheoran recovered from a disappointing Day Two outing for his champion paper of the week with a 5-under 67 to beryllium the best-placed Indian astatine tied 25th, 4 of his six birdies coming connected the backmost nine. Shiv Kapur and Shubhankar Sharma were further backmost astatine tied 42 3 shots behind
Top leaderboard: 199: Keita Nakajima (Jpn, 65-69-65); 201: Tommy Fleetwood (Eng, 68-64-69); 202: Shane Lowry (Ire, 64-69-69); 203: Jens Dantorp (Swe, 71-67-65), Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng, 69-67-67), Daniel Hillier (Nzl, 69-67-67), Brian Harman (USA, 68-65-70).
