DLF Golf & Country Club certainly isn’t short on quirks. There’s bunkering that would make Salvador Dali blush, 12-foot tall flagsticks and even multiple holes with multiple greens. But those eccentricities aren’t what gave players fits at Hero Indian Open on Thursday. Instead it was the plain old par-5 8th hole, which played as one of the single most brutal holes in DP World Tour history throughout the opening round. Read it and weep.
The amount of double bogeys or worse we saw in round one per hole… 🫣
1st: 2️⃣
2nd: 3️⃣
3rd: 1️⃣
4th: 4️⃣
5th: 6️⃣
6th: 3️⃣
7th: 7️⃣
8th: 1️⃣4️⃣
9th: 5️⃣
10th: 6️⃣
11th: 4️⃣
12th: 3️⃣
13th: 3️⃣
14th: 1️⃣3️⃣
15th: 1️⃣
16th: 8️⃣
17th: 6️⃣
18th: 1️⃣2️⃣#HIO24— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) March 28, 2024
Fourteen double-bogeys or worse on the eighth hole alone. That is a massacre rarely seen in the world of professional golf. Sebastian Soderberg came to eighth riding high on six straight birdies and proceeded to hit two in the drink en route to a triple-bogey 8.
Shot 1: Water 🌊
Shot 3: Fairway ✅
Shot 4: Water 🌊
Shot 6: Duff 🫣
Shot 7: Lip out 😡
Shot 8: Putt made 😰A hole to remember for Sebastian Söderberg…👀#HIO24 pic.twitter.com/92CrY0ZNJQ
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) March 28, 2024
Rasmus Hojgaard, meanwhile, put on a short-game anti-clinic – including the rarely seen cartpath drop – before tapping in for his quadruple-bogey 9.
The 8th hole saw over 12 double bogeys or worse in round one 🫣
Rasmus Højgaard made a nine. #HIO24 pic.twitter.com/NJLJf5cOTT
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) March 28, 2024
We’ll see if a change in the winds (or a traumatised field) change the data today, but if you’re a fan of chaos, carnage and car crashes, you may want to tune in to watch.
