Royal Calcutta hosts Vredestein Tyres Champions Event
The venerable Royal Calcutta Golf Club, proved a stern test of golf for India’s leading senior amateurs who returned to competition at the Vredestein Tyres Champions Event on the AVT Champions Tour after a 10 month break. The AVT Champions Tour, now in its 3rd season, is a series of four annual tournaments that […]
Vredestein Tyres sponsors AVT Champions Tour at RCGC
The most awaited amateur tournament for seniors, the AVT Champions Tour is all set for the 7th edition at the historic Royal Calcutta Golf Club in Kolkata from Nov. 10-11. The tour which prepares Indian veteran players for international competition is played as a 36 hole Gross Strokeplay competition and is open to players over […]
Australian Great Peter Thomson Passes Away
Peter Thomson breathed his last on June 20. He was 88 and, for the past four years, was battling Parkinson’s Disease. The five-time British Open champion will be remembered for his contribution to golf, especially in India and South-East Asia. Arguably Australia’s greatest golfer, he helped […]
Club Round-up: March 2018
[To share news on your club or updates from across the country, please email Rohit and Karthik] (Read more in the March issue of Golf Digest India. Download here.)
Shubhankar Upstages Rashid For Year-end Title
Shubhankar Sharma prevailed over Delhi’s Rashid Khan by one shot in a classic encounter to claim the season-ending Rs. 1.5 crore McLeod Russel Tour Championship title at the revered Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC). The 21-year-old from Chandigarh, who recently became the youngest Indian to win on the European Tour, ended his dream season, which […]
Golfing To Educate Rural India
Isha Golf Jaunt 2017 Golfers at Willingdon Golf Club, Mumbai, and Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Kolkata, were pleasantly surprised last month to see men, women and children standing silently at each hole, and holding a placard that read ‘Isha Vidhya’. For it was a special occasion – the Golf Jaunt. Organised by Sadhguru and Isha […]
Junior Golf Gets a Boost as SSP & Digvijay Lend A Hand
Two big names in Indian golf extended their support to junior golf last month. Former winner of the Panasonic Open, Digvijay Singh, did his bit to give back to the game as he helped initiate the Junior Golf Challenge in his name at the Classic Golf and Country Club. The event had 19 categories – […]