The Desert is an unlikely place to have golf courses and of course the lack of water makes it difficult to green even the smallest of gardens an 18 Hole course being a virtual impossibility. The aristocracy however remained enamored of the Gentlemen’s game that was so popular in British India. Unfortunately, the weather did not permit them the indulgence of creating golf courses in this arid wilderness and it was only in Jaipur as a part of the Large scale palace renovations undertaken by Maharaja Man Singh that a course was to the city. The 18 Hole course is still the only one in Jaipur and in fact in Rajasthan and though it is not a professional course, it is good for a round of golf in what are picturesque surroundings a palace next door and peacocks on the hazards. A golf course in Bikaner is unconventional in that the course exists exactly in the nature of the desert terrain, and even the greens have been replaced here by browns which if nothing else are at least unconventional.