Japan’s Keita Nakajima received his maiden DP World Tour title on the Indian Open 2024 golf event, which concluded on the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram on Sunday.

Nakajima secured a complete victory as a 73 within the closing spherical proved sufficient at hand him a four-shot win with a complete of 17 under-par. He arrived into the ultimate spherical on the again of a four-shot benefit.

The Japanese golfer had opened up a nine-shot lead at one level however a robust end from house favorite Veer Ahlawat, American Johannes Veerman and Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg, who all completed tied-second, reduce down his victory margin.

“It feels amazing,” Nakajima mentioned. “I really feel like that is the primary win of a brand new skilled profession. This is my first yr taking part in on the DP World Tour and I’m very proud to have received on the DP World Tour and really honoured to be taking part in right here. I need to try to end within the high ten on this tour after which go to the PGA Tour in 2025.”

This was solely Nakajima’s Eleventh begin and victory right here has helped him transfer to thirteenth within the Race to Dubai Rankings and on high of the Asian Swing Standings.

Nakajima has additionally change into solely the fifth Japanese winner within the historical past of the DP World Tour. Players from Japan have notched seven DP World Tour victories total.

India’s Veer Ahlawat, in the meantime, completed robust and went three below in his final three holes to complete tied-second. He ended up because the highest-ranked Indian golfer within the house event after scoring 13 below par.

India’s Manu Gandas completed tied-Eleventh with 9 below par whereas Karandeep Kochhar completed with eight below par to finish up at T13 on the leaderboard. Shubhankar Sharma completed tied thirty first.

Indian Open 2015 champion Anirban Lahiri, nonetheless, missed the reduce. Lahiri is a two-time winner on the European Tour golf circuit and a seven-time Asian Tour winner.