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Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC ) in Kolkata , India was established in 1829 and is the oldest golf club in India and the first outside Great Britain .[3] [4] [5]
RCGC has an 18-hole golf course with the following detail:[6]
Yardage: 7195/6871
Par: 72
Rating: 73.6/72.1
Mostly flat terrain, with many natural water hazards with water lilies and largish greens.
The Royal Calcutta Golf Club is the oldest golf club outside the United Kingdom. The oldest club outside Scotland is the Royal Blackheath Golf Club in London, established in 1766.[3]
King George V and Queen Mary conferred the title "Royal" to the Club to commemorate their visit to Calcutta in 1911. Apart from golf, it offers tennis courts and a swimming pool. The Club also maintains a Lawn Bowls Pavilion in the Kolkata Maidan.
The golf course is a green oasis in the city, and is home to foxes, snakes and mongoose as well as many birds.
Shiv Chawrasia is a member, his father was a greenkeeper and he started out as a caddie, but he currently plays on the European Tour .
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Royal Calcutta Golf Club[2]
Tee
Rating /Slope
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Blue
359
151
405
520
426
422
415
403
398
3499
432
409
368
194
413
503
356
379
428
3479
6978
White
347
143
375
487
409
417
400
355
389
3322
414
399
337
179
394
489
351
355
418
3336
6658
Yellow
340
139
365
460
398
367
314
349
346
3078
385
349
331
156
350
405
330
335
364
3078
6083
Red
304
136
325
454
353
328
298
340
342
2880
378
343
286
127
324
401
328
332
362
2881
5761
Par
4 3 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 36 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 4 36 72
SI
11 17 3 13 9 5 1 15 7
2 8 14 16 4 12 18 10 6
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^ a b c "The Royal Calcutta Golf Club" . Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2013 .
^ a b Steel, Donald (1987). Golf Records, Facts and Champions . Guinness. p. 9. ISBN 0851128475
^ "OUR SPORTSMEN" . 123india.com . Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2007 .
^ "Sportstar East Sports Conclave 2023: "Infrastructure, funds lacking, rowing struggles to prosper in Kolkata" — Calcutta Rowing Club secretary" . sportstar.thehindu.com . Kolkata: Sportstar – The Hindu. 6 February 2023. Archived from the original on 3 August 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023 .
^ Golf courses in India
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