There are approximately 180 golf courses in India of which more than 100 are owned by the armed forces. Another 30 to 40 are currently under construction and in the next few years India is expected to add about 10 new courses per year. This means that by the year 2015 we might have 250 golf courses for more than one billion people compared to roughly 16,000 golf courses for 300 million people in America - i.e. one golf course per 18,750 Americans versus one per 40,00,000 Indians.

In real-estate crazy India, it will never be possible to build courses like in the US, which means that more than 90% children in India will never have access to a full-fledged golf course.

So, what’s the next best thing? Build Short Game Practice Facilities - GolfRiTe Academies!!!

1. Build academies in schools in every town; academies that teach not only the basic but also the most important golf skills to maximum number of children.

2. Generate interest in them to take up the game to find out whether they have the talent and determination to become a world champion. Best way to generate a child’s interest in any activity is to:

(a) Inform about all the possible goals s/he can aim for.
(b) Provide all the necessary tools to achieve those goals.
(c) Challenges him /her appropriately on the way to those goals.

3. When golf will be played at such a large scale there are bound to emerge immensely talented champions, who otherwise would never have a chance to find out how good they are.

4. Once these young champions have shown their potential at our local, regional, and national level golf skill competitions the parents can make a decision whether they need to move closer to a full golf course to give their little champion a chance to blossom into an international star.

That is exactly what GolfRite intends to do through its academies at schools throughout India - Giving every kid a chance to find out whether they have the potential to become the next Tiger Woods. We are trying to catch the future.

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