Golf is increasingly playing a part in a broader lifestyle scheme of affluent people. Residential complexes abutting golf courses offer the feeling of living among wide open spaces along with rendering a chance to residents to indulge in a leisurely sport.

Builders have just woken up to the fact that they can see more if they keep such value-added services in mind while constructing residential premises.

Normally it has wide acres of landscaped greens apart from Golf Course itself with specially conceptualized, themed gardens, with an ‘Integrated Sports Complex’ replete with sports academics. The entire community will be built around the golf course thereby promising each apartment a view of an incredible green park every day.

Developing residential premises with the arrangements for such leisure activities is an 0attractive concept to both developers and buyers. And of course, you don’t necessarily have to be a golfer to want to live in one. By living adjacent to broad area of manicured lawn, golf lovers have all the enjoyment of leisure on hand.

DLF Golf and Country Club, Gurgaon, situated on the outskirts of Delhi, is flanked by the twin luxury high-rise residential projects ‘The Aralias’ and ‘Magnolias’ inside the 18-hole DLF Golf Course.

After the Karma Lakelands project in Gurgaon with a 9-hole golf course, Unitech has launched Unitech Grande over 347 acres along the Noida expressway neighboring the capital city. It offers an ultra luxurious residential project built around Greg Norman-designed 18-hole golf course.

In the same locality, Jaypee Green, a township by the Jaypee Group, also boasts of luxury villas and high-rise apartments built around Greg Norman-designed 18-hole golf course.

Omaxe is also developing a Golf Theme Township estimated at Rs.18 billion in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh.