The Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club

Overview: The Gaekwad Baroda Golf Club occupies an unusual setting on Rajmahal Road around the Motibaug Palace estate in Vadodara. The club's own description places the course among mature trees and historic structures, with doglegs that make positioning important. The directory identifies this as an 18-hole course, and current scorecard listings support that identity, but the available published tee records are not presented consistently enough to attach one definitive par or yardage. For now, the most useful way to understand the course is as a palace-estate golf setting where the surrounding history and the shape of the holes are central to the experience.

History: Baroda Golf Club says it was established in the mid-1990s. Its location connects the modern club to Vadodara's former royal landscape: the course is associated with the palace grounds and the Gaekwad name, rather than being a generic suburban development. Public descriptions consistently emphasise the relationship between golf, palace views and the old estate environment. Exact design and opening-year details are left open here because the reviewed sources do not establish a reliable architect or a single course-opening date separate from the club's mid-1990s establishment.

Did You Know? The club says the palace can be seen from every hole. That is more than a scenic footnote: the view acts as a constant identity marker, helping distinguish this course from other Vadodara-area facilities. It also explains why the course is best thought of as a historic-estate round, with the architectural setting accompanying the player through the full routing.