It’s one last chance for players to claim victory before the European Tour goes on hiatus until the end of April. The second of two back-to-back tournaments in Asia has the European Tour travelling to New Delhi for the Hero Indian Open, contested on the Gary Player course at the DLF Golf and Country Club. Once again the field is weakened by a lack of top-ranked golfers while defending champion Matt Wallace decided to peg it up at the WGC match play event in Texas. Spaniard Jorge Campillo is the betting favorite at BookMaker.eu with odds of +1200 to secure his first Tour tile, but the odds suggest the field is wide open. Some of the best Indian golfers will participate with Anirban Lahiri the second favorite at +1400 while Jazz Janewattananond ( +1600 ) and Shubhankar Sharma ( +2200 ) are a little further down the board.
Odds to Win Hero Indian Open at BookMaker.eu
Jorge Campillo +1200
Anirban Lahiri +1400
Jazz Janewattananond +1600
Julian Suri +2000
Victor Dubuisson +2000
Shubhankar Sharma +2200
Erik Van Rooyen +2500
Gaganjeet Bhullar +2500
Gavin Green +2500
George Coetzee +2500
Maximilian Kieffer +2500
Aaron Rai +2800
Matthias Schwab +2800
Nacho Elvira +2800
Pablo Larrazabal +2800
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +3300
Prom Meesawat +3300
Wade Ormsby +3300
Adrian Otaegui +4000
Oliver Fisher +4500
Dean Burmester +5000
Mikko Korhonen +5000
Scott Hend +5000
Andrea Pavan +5500
Bernd Wiesberger +5500
David Horsey +5500
Paul Peterson +5500
Ashley Chesters +6600
Callum Shinkwin +6600
Chris Wood +6600
Joachim B Hansen +6600
Justin Walters +6600
Marcus Fraser +6600
Robert Rock +6600
S Chikkarangappa +6600
Sihwan Kim +6600
Soren Kjeldsen +6600
Hideto Tanihara +7000
Johannes Veerman +7000
Shaun Norris +7000
Brandon Stone +7500
Scott Vincent +7500
Jeunghun Wang +8000
Masahiro Kawamura +8000
Poom Saksansin +8000
S.S.P Chawrasia +8000
Zander Lombard +8000
Adilson Da Silva +10000
Ashun Wu +10000
James Morrison +10000
Keith Horne +10000
Matteo Manassero +10000
Panupol Pittayarat +10000
Rashid Khan +10000
Ricardo Gouveia +10000
Sebastian Soderberg +10000
Shiv Kapur +10000
Siddikur Rahman +10000
Stephen Gallacher +10000
Yikeun Chang +10000
Odds Analysis
Anirban Lahiri +1400
It’s rare when India hosts a Tour event and doesn’t have one of its own players fighting for contention on Sunday. Lahiri is among the favorites to win the event, but his odds are long enough that he’s worth the risk. And it really isn’t a risk for a guy who’s a regular at home with a magnificent record when performing. Lahiri has four wins and 12 total top-10s in 25 starts at the Asian Tour level. He was T30 at the Valspar Championship last week, but he does have a T5 and T34 on this course, so he knows what coming around the corner.
Maximilian Kieffer +2500
Driving the ball straight and staying out of trouble are priorities on the to-do list to tame DLF. Kieffer could do that better than most in the field, and that alone will get him to the weekend. He’s experiencing a stretch of fabulous form that saw him grab a share of runner-up honors at the Oman Open, T14 at the Qatar Masters and a T5 last week in Malaysia. The German tied for 15th here in 2016 and won in India while competing on the Challenge Tour. He’s been good in India and we’ll chalk up last year’s MC here to one bad outing.
Paul Peterson +5500
This is the kind of field that brings out the best in unheard of golfers. Peterson could be the guy this week. He’s been 55th and 23rd here in the past and he’s yet to miss a cut in India. And his recent play has been solid if not spectacular with a 13th in Kenya and 30th last week. Peterson ranked 12th in fairways hit and eighth in greens last season, and his recent finishes have been sparked by much of the same. That’s what it’ll take to tame DLF and Peterson seems to have a lot going for him right now.
Jorge Campillo +1200
There was a slide last week from his previous two finishes, but Campillo is still flashing good form with hopes of grabbing that first career victory. He finished T2 in both Oman and Qatar before grabbing a T20 last week in Malaysia. His MC last year didn’t scare him away and the Spaniard is leaning on good form in India to get him over the hump. He has a T2 on DLS’s Palmer course, which isn’t much different in layout and design, and he hasa top-10 in this event at the Delhi Golf Club. He is the favorite, but the odds are tempting.
Course: DLF Golf & Country Club – 7,379 yards, Par 72
Those who competed last week will have a shock when they tee it up at Player Course at DLF. With hazards, narrow fairways and doglegs, defending champ Matt Wallace summed it up by saying, “every hole is a double-bogey waiting to happen.” This layout is hosting for a third straight year and we haven’t seen a lot of mastery. Wallace and Andrew Johnston reached a playoff last year at -11 while S.S.P Chawrasia won by seven shots with a -10 two years ago. The undulating layout and narrow fairways demand precision off the tee, and on every other swing for that matter. The course is seemingly built to hurt every shot that doesn’t stay on track. It’s going to be hot and humid, so players better prepare accordingly.
TV Coverage: Golf Channel
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