Tendulkar tees up with stars by choosing his new home

Dubai: India's master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is all set to have a home in a 700-acre golf course in Ahmedabad.

The 18-hole golf course, known as the Kensville Golf and Country Club, has attracted many top sportsmen and film stars to invest in the villas.

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Ajay Sethi, chairman of the Dubai based Channel 2 Group is one of the promoters of this project.

Speaking to Gulf News, Sethi said: "Tendulkar had got a 2,000 square yard plot of land and is expected to build a villa here shortly. He showed an interest in the golf course when he came to Ahmedabad for the first Test against New Zealand."

Tendulkar's villa will come up at a prime location inside the golf course. "Many more sportsmen are buying the villas here.

"Golfer Jeev Milkha Singh is the brand ambassador of this course and his villa is already under construction at the entrance of the course. Indian wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel has already got a plot here," Sethi said.

Among actors Amitabh Bachchan is in the process of building a villa on the prime porperty too.

The proximity of this city to Mumbai has been the key attraction for most investors. The property is just 35 kilometres from Ahmedabad city and is the brain child of Non Resident Indians (NRI) from Kenya and Dubai, supported by the Savy Group.

The aforementioned course staged the first European Challenge Tour event in India between January 13 and 16. Bachchan inaugurated the course in the presence of many sportsmen.

This event got Ahmedabad the honour of becoming only the third city to host an international men's golf tournament after New Delhi and Kolkata.

Sethi, who had organised the Legends of Lord's function to mark the 25th year of Indian team's 1983 World Cup in Dubai, is now gearing up for a golf tournament for cricketers.