Royal Calcutta Golf Club

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Royal Calcutta Golf Club
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Aerial view of the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (right) and Kolkata (left)
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Coordinates 22°29′35″N88°21′18″E / 22.493°N 88.355°E / 22.493; 88.355
Location18 Golf Club Road, Tollygunge
Kolkata 700 033, India
Established1829;195 years ago (1829) [1]
Total holes18
Website www.rcgc.in OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Par 72
Length7195/6871 [2]
Course rating 73.6/72.1 [2]

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]

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RCGC has an 18-hole golf course with the following detail: [6]

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.

Scorecard

Royal Calcutta Golf Club [2]
Tee Rating/Slope 123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Blue359151405520426422415403398349943240936819441350335637942834796978
White347143375487409417400355389332241439933717939448935135541833366658
Yellow340139365460398367314349346307838534933115635040533033536430786083
Red304136325454353328298340342288037834328612732440132833236228815761
Par434544444364443454443672
SI 111731395115728141641218106

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  2. 1 2 3 "The Royal Calcutta Golf Club". Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 Steel, Donald (1987). Golf Records, Facts and Champions. Guinness. p. 9. ISBN   0851128475.
  4. ↑ "OUR SPORTSMEN". 123india.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2007.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ Golf courses in India

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