With some of the world’s tallest mountains, densest jungle and most stunning coastlines, India is rapidly growing as a golf destination.
It’s no wonder that the nation is growing in stature as a tournament host as well. Some of the DP World Tour’s biggest stars, including Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood, graced last year’s inaugural DP World India Championship with their presence, while the Hero Indian Open, which takes place in late March, is now a DP World Tour mainstay.
All of this is going a long way to showcase India as a land with some of the most unique and scenic courses to be found anywhere in the world, famed for jungle-lined fairways and architectural relics spanning from ancient temples to Mughal-era tombs and new, stunning courses from some of the world’s most acclaimed architects opening seemingly every year. Golf in India is also some of the best value in the world, with pretty much all of the nation’s best courses open to play for well under £100.
There’s no better time, then, to start planning your own golf tour of the subcontinent. These are the Indian golf courses to get on your list.
The best golf courses in Northern India 
Courtesy DLF Golf & Country Club
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DLF Golf & Country Club
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Opened in 1999, DLF has blossomed over the last 25 years to become by far India’s most acclaimed course, regularly cited within Asia’s 100 best and the host of both the Hero Indian Open and the Indian stop of the LIV-backed International Series.
The original layout, designed by Arnold Palmer, has been reduced down to nine-holes, with a new 18-hole championship course laid out by Gary Player between 2014 and 2015. The result is one of India’s most dramatic golfing destinations and almost certainly its hardest (last year’s Indian Open-winning score was -4), featuring deep ravines, gullies carved from the site of a former quarry, and two large lakes that form the course’s nexus.
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Delhi Golf Club
Location: Delhi
Green fees (weekday): ₹6,000 (approx. £50)
Perhaps India’s most storied course from a tournament perspective, Delhi Golf Club was the long-time home of the Indian Open until its move to the DLF earlier this decade, and will continue to function as the host of the DP World India Championship going into the future.
It’s easy to see why the DPWT was so keen to keep Delhi’s Lodhi course in its rotation, with a unique, fairly flat jungle parkland layout dotted by picturesque Mughal-era tombs and temples that betray its location atop the ruins of the historic capital. It’s about as scenic and quintessentially Indian as golf gets.
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Jaypee Greens
Location: Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Green fees (weekday): ₹4,000 (approx. £30)
The planned city of Greater Noida is one of India’s largest and fastest growing urban projects, replete with newly built residential and retail developments. Jaypee Greens forms the focal point of one, built quite literally from scratch and featuring the only Greg Norman-designed course on the subcontinent.
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Golf here is very much of the open resort style, routed around artificial lakes that were excavated to provide soil for the course’s ample undulations and bunkers. In a nod to Norman’s homeland, Jaypee is renowned for its ample Melbourne Sandbelt-style bunkering, with almost 100 sand-traps dotting the layout.
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Classic Golf & Country Club
Location: Bissar Akbarpur, Haryana
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
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Sprawling out from its stunning mughal-style clubhouse, Classic offers not one, but two of India’s premier 18-hole layouts, with 27 Jack Nicklaus-designed holes in three sets of 9 (named Ridge, Valley and Canyon) that combine to make the resort one of the best places to play within a stone’s throw of Delhi.
The Ridge and Valley nines form the longer, championship-style course, with open fairways and multi-tiered green complexes while the shorter (but still full-length) Canyon nine sits nestled in the foothills of the Aravalli Range.
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The best golf courses in Western India 
Courtesy Kalhaar Blues and Greens Club
Kalhaar Blues & Greens
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Another course that appeared almost from thin air within the confines of a brand new real estate development, Kalhaar Blues & Greens has nonetheless been hailed as a bit of a triumph, giving Ahmedabad a true world-class golf destination for the first time.
Much like Jaypee Greens, KBG was built on a largely featureless plot of land, laid out by Nicklaus Design with man-made contours and lakes hewn from the earth to provide the layout with some much-needed flavour. Nicklaus’ team has produced some bold strokes in course design as a result, with an island green on the 7th and a beach green on the 13th ringed entirely by sand.
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Oxford Golf Resort
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
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Green fees (weekday): ₹8,600 (approx. £70)
Winner of India’s best golf course at the 2025 World Golf Awards, Oxford Golf Resort is one of India’s most celebrated new courses and forms a new focal point for golfing tourists visiting India’s west. Much of this comes down to the inventive Phil Ryan layout, which faithfully follows the topography of the Sahyadri Hills on which the course is built. The five-star hotel is also widely regarded as one of India’s best for golf.
The best golf courses in Eastern India 
Courtesy Royal Calcutta Golf Club
Royal Calcutta
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Green fees (weekday): ₹10,000 (approx. £80)
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An enduring monument to Golf’s colonial past, Royal Calcutta is, in fact, the oldest golf club anywhere in the world outside the United Kingdom, making this prestigious Royal-appointed course one of the most historic places anywhere in the world to tee it up. Even so, Royal Calcutta welcomes walk-ins on both weekdays and weekends for a fee that we feel is very reasonable given the heritage on offer.
The best golf courses in Southern India 
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Prestige Golfshire Club
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Green fees (weekday): ₹8,000 (approx. £65)
Part of the Troon network of courses, Prestige Golfshire might have a slightly odd name, but is rapidly growing in stature as one of India’s premier courses. It sits at the bottom of the Nandi Hills and forms the focal point of one of India’s most luxurious residential golf developments. No wonder, then, that this Bob Hunt design was named has been named India’s best at the World Golf Awards for four of the last five years.
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Hyderabad Golf Club
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Green fees (weekday): ₹2,500 (approx. £20)
The walls of the Naya Qila, a 17th-century fort built for the Mughal army, form what have to be one of the most unique backdrops for a golf course anywhere in the world. Indeed, fourteen of the holes at Hyderabad sit within the former ramparts of the fort, and while Hyderabad isn’t especially long at just 6,100 yards, it’s currently in the midst of a multi-year expansion and renovation led by Richardson|Danner, which has already seen a new teaching academy and range added to the property.
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The best part? A round here will leave change from £20.
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Karnataka Golf Association
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Green fees (weekday): ₹3,000 (approx. £25)
Karnataka is the golfing epicentre of the city of Bengalaru, and was rewarded for its exceptional layout and facilities in 2012 when it became the first course in the city to host an Indian Open. Much of this newfound acclaim was the result of a restoration carried out in 2008, which added new drainage to a formerly flood-prone course built atop the Chalaghatta swamp.
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