Golf started its journey in India during the first half of the nineteenth century and the first initiatives taken for a better management of Indian Golf were taken only during the middle half of the twentieth century. The game was mainly being run and managed in India by the first ever Golf club outside Great Britain, the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) for quite a long time after its inception. Almost all the other Golf clubs in India were affiliated to the RCGC during the initial periods of Indian Golf.

However, it was during the middle half of the 1950s that a group of eminent Indian professional golfers felt the need of establishing a national governing body for golf in India. That was the beginning of the management of Indian golf. The Indian Golf Union (IGU) was established in the year 1955, as an apex body for Golf to look after all kinds of Golf related activities in India. The IGU was founded with a view to promote the game of Golf in India and the maintenance of a high standard of the game, in every way possible. The IGU took a lot of initiatives for the well being of Golf in India and the initiatives include organising various Golf tournaments and conducting training programmes.

For a better management of Indian Golf, the Indian Golf Union is working in collaboration with several other state Golf associations. Some of the prominent state Golf associations in India include the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA), Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA), Punjab Golf Association (PGA), etc. There is also the Women`s Golf Association of India (WGAI) that mainly works for the development and improvement of Women`s Golf in India. Apart from the IGU and the state associations, there are also a large number of Golf clubs in India that are associating the IGU to develop the state of Indian Golf. The major Indian Golf clubs include the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, the Tollygunge Club, the Bombay Presidency Golf Club, the Delhi Golf Club, the Willingdon Sports Club, the Madras Gymkhana, and others.