Ambert,

I have known Brits spend their honeymoon on a golf course.

so go for it

lez

Where is it going to be - North or South? I know many years ago they wanted to build one in North Goa to attract the Japanese but, as you know, this never happened.

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback guys. Its going to be in the north and close to Calangute. The land needed for the project itself runs into hundreds of thousands of pounds and i feel its viable only in the north.

Regards

Ambert

I will ask my golfing pals what they expect from a driving range.

I know the 19th hole is on the top of the list

lez

dont open a golfing range, i love golf but Goa needs the water for human consumption not a driving range, nor a golf course. scotland is the only place in the world to play golf

I was going to say much the same. Water is for drinking not for watering golf courses especially when it is a rare commodity as in some parts of Goa. For 4 months of the year we live in a part of Europe which has numerous golf courses and already the comments have started in the local press about using our scarce water for these courses. Alot of people do not know that you can't use sea water to do this and see the water all round us and think there is plenty.

To answer your question Goadentist.
I have look all over the internet for some information about a course in North Goa but all I can come up with is this

Looked up the word - nascent - just beginnining to be.

With regards to driving ranges - this afternoon we went to look at a couple of golf courses near to us and found that they both had driving ranges within the golf course premises - looks like they were built by the club.

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Fiona

Please don't do it! Spain and Portugal are full of golf courses and building one in Goa will just be another step down the Costa del Goa path.

I would have thought it was too hot anyway and as has already been said, the water is needed elsewhere.

No, Non, Nein!

Me thinks "Some" need to read Amberts question again

He was asking about a "Driving Range not an 18 hole golf course.

Not much water required on plastric turf.

the driving ranges i used have plastic mats that you hit the ball off and they land on grass. keep the water for our hangovers

Thanks guys,

Lots of ideas as to saving water. Let me assure you that the driving range i propose has " no greens ". Its an indoor range. Rubber mats thats all we are going to use .

Save water , save Goa !

Regards

Good man Ambert, anyway Golf is just a waste of a good walk

think on girls --- look at all the shopping you can be doing when they are out on the driving range --- sounds perfect!!

Hmm........ is this what Goa really needs? Mind you next progression is loads of golf courses then more private apartments.

Getting even closer to Costa del Goa.

Let me tell you big neil, that golf is a sport that has a limited following in Goa; almost like baseball or rugby. Actually i dont think more than 100 locals have even played the game.

My love for golf has prompted me to look at setting up a driving range. I want to market it more for the locals than the tourists. If the proposed golf course being built by the Government does happen somebody will have to teach the people the game !

Regards

Lezlie, you're right-I was so anxious to object to golf in Goa that I didn't take time to read that Ambert was after a driving range and not a golf course.

However, you're right on a tecnicality only. I still think the idea of golf of any description in Goa is a bummer. Goa needs aspiring, middle managemant types in Pringle jumpers like it needs a hole in the head. It's just not what Goa is about.

Chilling, ambience, sunsets, food, wonderful people, beaches, shacks, smells; yes - bring it on. But golf... golf!....pleeease!

Chilling, ambience, sunsets, food, wonderful people, beaches, shacks, smells; yes - bring it on. But golf... golf!....pleeease

Amen brother!! The first time I see someone taking their clubs to Goa with them, then I know the dream really has died

Roma, of course I'm right.

Except for when I, and then, and there was the time, aw forget it.

I have just had this vision of a dozen golfing nuts sitting around a bar talking golf stories, handicaps, the latest sand wedge, hole-in-one, my wife doesn't understand.

My God Ambert do not do it

lez

Amen brother!! The first time I see someone taking their clubs to Goa with them, then I know the dream really has died

I couldn't agree more!