The DP World India Championship has been a great change of pace for regular golf viewers – and not just for the assault on the senses but in the style of golf that it has promoted.
Indian temples being dotted around the property and a constant buzz of the heavy traffic around such a sprawling metropolis are a great backdrop to Delhi Golf Club, but it’s the actual course design that’s been such an eye opener.
Leave the big dogs out of the bag
So much of modern golf is centered around distance and, smashing your driver as far as is humanly possible is often the main focus – that’s because at most courses and most events it’s a huge advantage.
But, let’s face it, when player after player on tee box after tee box steps up and whips the headcover off the big dog without giving it a moment’s thought, and just throws the kitchen sink at it, things can get a bit dull.
The bomb-and-gouge golf is dominant at most PGA Tour events, the rough outside of Majors is never usually much to be feared, fairways are wide enough and, even when in the rough, there’s still some spin and control to be had.
But not at Delhi Golf Club where the fairways are so tight, and the penalty for missing them is so severe that driver just isn’t the play – with players instead having to place their tee shots on the short stuff via fairway woods and driving irons.
Even Rory McIlroy, possibly the best driver of a golf ball on the planet, let his big dog have a snooze in the locker room with the margin for error so small even he dare not take the risk.
And watching high cuts with 5-woods, power fades with long irons and the occasional stinger off the tee makes such a refreshing change to the rinse and repeat of smash a driver, go find it, spin a wedge in for a birdie chance.
Please can we have more of this during the season?
Why we should have more…
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