This week, the Hero Indian Open will take place at the DLF Golf & Country Club, and two-time champion and golfing star SSP Chawrasia is ready to play. The tournament’s 2025 edition, which has a $2.25 million prize fund, will take place from March 27 to 30, 2025.

In 2016 and 2017, Chawrasia became one of only three players to win the Hero Indian Open championship consecutively. Dr. Pawan Munjal, Executive Chairman of Hero MotoCorp, the title sponsor of the esteemed tournament, has extended a special invitation to SSP Chawrasia for the 2025 Hero Indian Open.

Aside from his two victories in 2016 and 2017, Chawrasia has an incredible record in this event, having been second at HIO four times (in 2015, 2013, 2006, and 1999). Notably, from 2013 to 2017, he placed second or higher each time; due to schedule changes, the HIO was not conducted in 2014.

The 46-year-old Chawrasia also has the distinction of having won two DP World Tour events at the DLF: the 2014 Avantha Masters and the 2017 Hero Indian Open. He has four victories on the DP World Tour, including two more in the 2008 Emaar Masters at the DGC and the 2016 HIO at the Delhi Golf Club. Chawrasia has won six international championships overall.

Keita Nakajima (2024) and Marcel Siem (2023) are the other two former champions competing in the 2025 tournament, along with Chawrasia.

Two more players who have won championships in the last two weeks are included in the field of 138: Joshua Berry, who earned a spot in the HIO by winning the Kolkata Challenge on the HotelPlanner Tour, and Richard Mansell, who won the Porsche Singapore Classic on Sunday.

Five players who have won on the DPWT in the 2025 season will compete in the Hero Indian Open, which boasts one of the strongest fields ever assembled on Indian soil: Mansell (Singapore Classic), Callum Hill (Joburg Open), John Parry (AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open), Johannes Veerman (Nedbank Golf), and Ryggs Johnston (ISPS Handa Australian Open).

Parry (3rd), Daniel Hillier (5th), Veerman (9th), and Mansell (10th) are among the current Top 10 in the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai rankings.

There are also 12 2024 DPWT season champions in the field.