Delhi Golf Club - oldest and largest Golf Club in India and a green expanse

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If you are a golf lover, then a visit to The Delhi Golf Club or the DCG will definitely make you fall in love with the venue. Salvadora persica or pilloo and other endemic shrubs and flora of the Delhi Ridge inhabit the DGC. The Delhi Golf Club is one of the oldest golf-courses in Asia and the oldest one in Delhi. It was founded in the 1920s as the Lodhi Club and is located on Dr. Zakir Hussain Road in Nizamuddin. It became a corporate entity on 24 February 1950. The course was originally laid out by the British, integrating existing Mughal structures and tombs such as the Lal Bangla into the course. The golf club has undergone various changes over time, and at one point it had to sell at least a third of the land it occupied to the municipality of Delhi in order to finance itself. Today i