Classic Golf Resort, inspected by designer of the course, Jack Nicklaus, became the first south Asian Signature Championship Course for international tournaments when this 27-hole course was thrown open for members on April 12th.

Being built on a vast 300-acre track at the foothills of Aravallis, off the Delhi-Jaipur highway, the golf and country club, involving a capital outlay of Rs 150 crore, is Landbase India's first project. The company has tied up with international golfer Jack Nicklaus and his Florida-based companies Golden Bear International, Nicklaus Design, Nicklaus Equipment and Apparel and Paragon Construction from golf-course designing, construction to upgrading existing courses to place India on the global golfing map with the Canyon nine-holecourse opening in January 1998 .

Comprising 18-hole signature championship, a nine-hole signature canyon course, a golf club and a country club offers non-golfing sports and recreation activities simultaneously.

"This is a private club and will include a hotel and a state-of-the-art convention centre, both managed by Welcomgroup and cluster of well-appointed villas spread over the entire expanse of the resort accessible to members only. As part of the accommodation facility, managing director Pradeep Jain told The Financial Express.

The latest in golf living, the golf sanctuary, as it has been named, 15 well-appointed Jodhpur style tents have been set up," Jain added, saying the entire project will be designed by Nicklaus, his first domestic venture and will house professional golf academy with hi-tech equipment to aid teaching.Like all other modern golf courses, the complex will have 80 per cent of the total space as an open green area, a fresh water-lake including reservoirs for collecting rain waterand a water-treatment plant. The project is the largest investment made in tourism infrastructure by any company in the country and will be a major foreign exchange earner.

Golf tourists today are an important segment of world tourism and almost 62 million people world over are keen golfer.