The Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club

The Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club is Vadodara's non-defence golf course, set inside and around the Laxmi Vilas Palace grounds — founded by the Gaekwad royal family (established 1930 per a local history site), revived in the 1990s and expanded to championship standard in 2004 under designer Ranjit Nanda. Sources disagree on the course itself: Golfpass lists 9 holes playing to par 69 over 6,542 yards, the local history article calls it a "full-length 18-hole layout", and a golf-tour operator prints a third card of 18 holes, par 72, 5,982 yards. The two 18-hole sources do not agree with each other, and the club's own site publishes no hole count, so the disagreement stays open — the most likely reading is nine greens with double tees. It is a private club of 900+ members whose own site sets out entrance-fee membership categories; tour operators resell visitor tee times, so guest play appears possible, but the club publishes no visitor terms and no green fee. There is a driving range, short-game facilities and a resident teaching professional (named on the club's own lessons page); club rental is claimed only by an undated directory's amenity checklist, and nothing else confirms it. The club's own website is reachable, but what it serves is an undated brochure whose lesson prices still quote pre-GST tax rates and most of whose pages now 404, so it cannot stand as evidence that the club is currently operating. The newest genuinely dated signal is a 2024 article revision, so nothing dated confirms the club is open today — though it almost certainly is.