BPGC, eyeing future

APRIL 19: Practically, the city's entire competitive golf is played here. Not only that but with three tournaments of the Indian PGA tour...

APRIL 19: Practically, the city’s entire competitive golf is played here. Not only that but with three tournaments of the Indian PGA tour played here, the Par-70 Bombay Presidency Golf Clubs is one of the major centre on the Western region of India. But things just don’t stop there as BPGC will soon become a club qualified for holding international events as well.

The premier golf institution founded way back in 1927 is stepping into the new millennium with massive expansion plans which includes a brand new clubhouse complete with five-star rooms for players a condition laid down by the PGA for a golf club to hold any international events.

Though the plans for upgradation of the clubhouse began in 1995, the new committee headed by president DC Patel and captain Vilas Chitnis were faced with the unenviable task of shoring the dwindling finances of the club in view of the economic slump.

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It was then that the club committee decided to open up a general category membership worth Rs four lakhs in Januarylast which managed to rope in as many as 30 new members in just two months. The club has a target of 100 new members to add to its existing membership of 1600.

The club also managed to cut it’s operational costs in terms of water used for maintaining the 6,000-plus yard course. With water no longer an easy commodity to source in the city, the club installed a new filtration plant which recycles and filters sewage water ensuring perennial supply of the 1.25 million litres required per day by the course which is met with the borewell within the club.

In the absence of public courses, a bright future for BPGC is good news for city golf too.

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