Southern India

Southern India, India

It wasn’t until 1986, thirteen years after a golf course was first proposed for the Karnataka Golf Association, that a 9-hole layout was established on a 124-acre site in Challaghatta, close to Bangalore’s city centre.

Southern India, India

The town of Udhagamandalam – or Ooty for short – was established by the British in the early 19th century as a hill station, allowing government officials to retreat there during the summer when the temperatures are a little cooler at 7,000 feet above sea level.

Southern India, India

Designed by Bob Hunt from PGA Design Consulting in the UK, the semi-private resort course at Prestige Golfshire is set out close to the Nandi Hills, a mere half an hour’s drive from Kempegowda International Airport.

Southern India, India

The Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club course is the sporting focal point of a substantial real estate development to the west of Hyderabad in the centre of the new Gachibowli township, which been described as an “IT suburb”.

Southern India, India

Established in 1992, the public course at Hyderabad Golf Club is a joint venture between the Hyderabad Golf Association and the Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation, with fourteen holes set out inside the ancient citadel of Golkonda Fort.

Southern India, India

Eagleton is generally friendly from the tee with wide fairways and not too punishing rough. The greens hold many subtle breaks, which will catch out even the very best short game.

Southern India, India

Formerly known as Champion Reef Golf County, the Ron Fream-designed course at Zion Hills Golf County is the sporting centrepiece of a residential development that’s situated less than a 90-minute drive east of Bengaluru.

Southern India, India

Part of an integrated real estate project, the 18-hole course at Clover Greens lies within a 170-acre property to the southeast of Bengaluru, where Pacific Coast Design built the layout to blend in with its environment in 2006.

Southern India, India

Founded in 1895, Kodaikanal Golf Club nestles 7,000 feet above sea level in the Palani Hills, between Madurai and Coimbatore. The course was extended to an 18-hole layout in the early 1950s and its browns were converted to greens in 1986.

Southern India, India

Bangalore Golf Club’s course is the second oldest still in use outside the British Isles (Pau GC moved to a new course in France a year earlier, in 1875) and it’s been played as an 18-hole layout for more than a hundred years now.