With other Scots following him, it was natural for golf to be a part of the tea garden culture," says Anjan Barua, the Jorhat-based retired scientist who has documented Assam's tea history. "Robert Bruce, a Scot, is credited with discovering tea in Assam in 1823 though the Singpho community was growing tea for ages. By then, British tea planters had already carved out scores of golf courses in estates across the Brahmaputra Valley. The northeast had its first golf club in Shillong - then the headquarters of Assam province - in 1898. The Royal Calcutta Golf Club was set up in 1829, six decades after the St Andrews golf club in Scotland began its journey to become the 'home of golf'. Outside of the UK, India was the first country to adopt golf. Golf added value to stays in colonial estate bungalows packaged with plucking and making your own tea," AK Choudhury, managing director of KGCL, says.īut post-independence, golf was facing the threat of fading out like another planters' passion - polo. "HP Barooah was a visionary planter who opened up his tea estate bungalows to usher in tea tourism a decade ago when the tea industry was passing through a bad phase. If the Kaziranga National Park is 73 kms west of this golf course, the cultural island of Majuli is closer (25 kms), while the medieval moidams - pyramid-like burials of members of the state's royalty - at Charaideo are only 65 kms east. Unlike the others, it is also close to Assam's most popular destinations amongst visiting golfers. The other tea estate courses are all nine-hole courses. But the focus of this campaign is the newest member of the 'tea-tee club' - the Kaziranga Golf Club (KGCL) in Sangsua Tea Estate near Jorhat town, 308 km east of Guwahati.Įstablished by planter Hemendra Prasad Barooah in 2011 as a resort, Kaziranga Golf Course is really the odd one out, as it is the only designer course and the only one with 18 holes. These Scottish legacies are a part of the plan to make Assam a tea-and-golf destination for tourists. Lately, the planters' clubs, lording over some 20 golf courses, have been trying to shed their colonial hangover to let the golfing locals drive and putt.
Reinvestment, because more than a century ago, British tea planters - mostly from Scotland, where the game originated - had invested in scores of golf courses in luxuriant tea estates.
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