To extend this experience, we hold zonal level tournaments for the South for various participating clubs. Our tournaments give youngsters a nice opportunity to converge and play with clear objective of making a mark and moving forward. After the zonal levels, players who qualify move up to the nationals. IGU is already doing something like this and doing it rather well. That’s how young amateurs come into playing circuits and make their way to the top.

It helps to know here, that our instructors go through a training program themselves on a format designed by Peter Murphy, who heads the academy where Tiger Woods used to coach.

We also have Vijay Divecha heading the academy and he is the only Class ‘A’ Teaching Professional based in South India. Vijay has 12 seasoned instructors under him, who currently train 160 kids in various batches. The coaching has become so popular that we now have a waiting list of 180 kids. Our new golf school in Kogalur will help us ease the load and open the doors to a growing number of aspirants on our waiting list.

Right now we are seeing a momentum shift in how the game is played. Earlier, the game was privy to only the club member circuit and their children. The iron curtain here needs to be softened and we need to break some barriers.

BGC has also taken huge steps in making this possible and giving us the opportunity to set up Touche, within the club’s operating structure. For a fledging enterprise in this space, BGC has really given us the opportunity to hit the ground running.

Today, anybody interested in the game can come over and sign-up at Touche Golf. You can either sign-up for coaching or book a time slot to play - at $ 12 during weekdays and $ 24 over weekends. That’s very, very attractive, isn’t it?

Touché was set up to be among the best golf academies in the world. With an operating base from Bangalore, we hope to reach out to the rest of the country and share the learning experience in a very professional way.