The inaugural edition of the Boulders Classic will get underway at the Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The DP World PGTI event, played in Stroke Play Format, will see 132 professional golfers, from India and abroad, compete for the Rs. 1 crore prize money.

The field is headlined by Shubhankar Sharma and Yuvraj Sandhu. The former, a two-time DP World Tour winner, stated that he was looking forward to competing in the City of Pearls, where he honed his craft as a teenager.

“This is where I grew up on the PGTI Tour. I came to Hyderabad 10 years ago for a tournament, all my friends are still here. When you’re playing abroad, it’s an individual sport, you don’t meet your friends as much. Also, coming back helps you reinvent yourself and find the game that you love so much,” he said.

Yuvraj, the 2025 DP World PGTI Order of Merit champion and the country’s leading male golfer, stated that he was looking forward to getting his season started on home soil.

“It’s fun to be back in India and play the same event as Shubhankar. It’s becoming a habit to be out there on the tour, but at the same time, to come back and play PGTI definitely feels like home. I’m really excited to play at a new venue on the calendar, especially at this time of the year where we’re starting our season. We’re going to go full throttle for the next six months.”

The local challenge will be led by Mohd. Azhar, the city’s top-ranked golfer.

Published on Apr 12, 2026