Montgomerie at a clinic for kids in Singapore. (AFP)

New Delhi: World No. 6 Adam Scott will play in next year’s Johnnie Walker Classic in India, organisers said on Tuesday.

Vijai Singh, Ian Poulter and Colin Montgomerie will join the Australian, winner of the 2005 tournament in Beijing, for the $2.5 million event in New Delhi.

The tournament, co-sanctioned by the European, Asian and Australasian Tours, will be played at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon from February 28 to March 2.

First played in Hong Kong in 1990, the Johnnie Walker Classic has been played in seven countries and at 12 golf clubs over the past 17 years.

Past winners include Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Ernie Els, Ian Woosnam and Retief Goosen.

“I am looking forward to playing the event,” said Scott.

“I have heard so much about India and how golf is growing there but I’ve never been there, so it will be exciting to be in Delhi.”

In 2004, the 27-year-old Scot became the youngest winner of the Players’ Championship on the US PGA Tour.

This year, the Australian has had fine season with a second-place finish at the Mercedes-Benz Championship and a win at the Shell Houston Classic on the US Tour, giving him a total of 13 career victories.

Poulter has won five European Tour titles since turning pro in 1994. Though he has not won anything this season, a second place in the British Masters and a number of solid performances on the US Tour has seen the 31-year-old rise to No. 29 in the world rankings.

Montgomerie, on the other hand, has had a prolific career spanning 20 years. He has topped the European Tour Order of Merit a record eight times and won 40 tournaments.

Former world No. 1 Vijai, having notched up over 50 tour victories around the world, now wants to fulfil yet another dream — of winning a title in India, his ancestral home.

“I would love to go and win the Johnnie Walker Classic,” said the three-time major winner in a statement.

“It is a big event on a great golf course I like very much and I would like to go out there and show the Indian people what I can do. Hopefully I will pull it off.”

The former No.1 also hailed the growth of the Asian players on the world’s golfing stage and predicted an intense battle for silverware. (AGENCIES)