Western Dooars Golf Club

Overview: Western Dooars Golf Club is the 18-hole course associated with the Ranichera Tea Garden area of West Bengal's Dooars. A current 18Birdies scorecard records par 72 over 7,067 yards, while FullGolf identifies the course as open to guests. The setting places the round in a very different travel landscape from India's major city clubs: the Dooars is a tea-growing region of broad estates, forest corridors and Himalayan foothill scenery. The course is therefore most naturally paired with a tea-country itinerary, where the journey and landscape are part of the golfing appeal.

History: The golf club's published sources do not provide a dependable opening date or original architect, so neither is claimed here. Its identity is tied to the wider tea-estate history of the Dooars, a region where plantation communities developed sporting facilities alongside the gardens. The available current listings confirm that the club remains a distinct 18-hole venue at Ranichera and that guests can be accommodated on the course, while avoiding an invented club chronology unsupported by the sources.

Did You Know? The Dooars name is linked to the historic gateway landscape between Bengal and Bhutan, and tea gardens remain central to the region's character. On the scorecard, the course has two par-five holes on each nine and a run of par threes that keeps the par-72 routing varied. That combination makes the course a full round in a tea-growing setting rather than simply a small local club loop.