Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\nTom McKibbin sat one shot off the lead, with fellow Northern Ireland player Rory McIlroy a further three shots back, after a severely weather-disrupted opening day of the DP World India Championship in New Delhi.<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard topped the leaderboard on day one after a six-under-par round of 66 which included an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys at the Delhi Golf Club.<\/p>\n
McKibbin, Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra and Belgian Thomas Detry all reached five under as they completed their opening rounds.<\/p>\n
Play was suspended because of lightning and torrential rain shortly after 06:30 BST, and did not resume until five hours later, leaving many of the field unable to finish their first 18 holes and preventing others from starting their rounds.<\/p>\n
McKibbin posted six birdies, with his card marred by a solitary bogey, to put himself well in contention.<\/p>\n
Starting at the 10th hole, the 23-year-old picked up shots at four consecutive holes from the 12th to the 15th, before dropping a shot at the par-four 16th.<\/p>\n
Further birdies at the 18th and the third elevated him to joint top spot, before Norgaard moved a shot ahead with a scintillating late charge of one eagle and five birdies in his final seven holes.<\/p>\n
McKibbin’s sole DP World Tour win to date came in the European Open in Germany in 2023 and since January 2025 he has been part of the LIV Golf tour.<\/p>\n
He has secured top-six finishes at the British Masters and Irish Open on the DP World Tour this season.<\/p>\n
A trio of Scots – Scott Jamieson, Robert MacIntyre and Ewen Ferguson – sit three under, along with India’s Om Prakash Chouhan and Marcus Armitage of England.<\/p>\n
World number two McIlroy bogeyed the first hole of his round, the 10th, but reacted with birdies at the 13th, 15th, 18th and second holes, before giving up a further shot to par on the third.<\/p>\n
The back-to-back Masters champion finished on the same two-under mark as Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n
McIlroy sat third in the Race to Dubai standings before this week’s tournament, behind leader Patrick Reed and second-placed Chacarra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DP World India Championship, day one leaderboard -6 N Norgaard (Den); -5 T McKibbin (NI), E Chacarra (Spa),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-883432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}