SNIS Golf Excellence Programme: How Sharanya Narayani International School is Producing World-Class Junior Golfers

Golf and school have always existed in separate worlds — training at a high-performance academy during the day, academic catch-up in the evening, and a permanent sense of compromise between the two. Sharanya Narayani International School (SNIS) has built a programme designed to end that compromise. The SNIS Golf Excellence Programme — powered by TSG Academy, India's first and only residential high-performance golf academy — is the first of its kind in India: a school and a golf academy formally partnering to run a structured, intensive golf programme alongside a full IB education for boarding students in Grades 6 to 8. This blog explains exactly how the programme works, who it is for, and what it offers that no other school in Bangalore or India currently provides.

What the Programme Is — and Why It's Unique

The SNIS Golf Excellence Programme is built on a specific premise: that a student who wants to build a career in golf — whether as a professional player or through college golf in India or abroad — should not have to choose between world-class coaching and a world-class education. The programme integrates intensive golf training from TSG Academy with the IB Middle Years Programme at SNIS, creating a single structured pathway for student-golfers in Grades 6 to 8.

Both SNIS and TSG Academy are explicit that this is the first programme of its kind in India. No other school in the country currently offers a formal residential golf training partnership of this depth — where the golf academy and the school share responsibility for the student's weekly schedule, academic curriculum, fitness programme, and long-term development as both an athlete and a learner.

TSG Academy: The Coaching Partner Behind the Programme

Understanding the SNIS Golf Excellence Programme requires understanding TSG Academy — because the quality of coaching is what distinguishes this from a school with a golf course. TSG Academy is India's first and only residential high-performance golf academy, based at Zion Hills Golf County in Kolar — approximately 40 minutes from the SNIS campus near Hoskote, Bangalore. It was founded by Mr. Tarun Sardesai, Director of Instruction, whose coaching track record includes the youngest Indian to win an Asian Tour event in 2018 and India's representative to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 — both TSG students.

The academy's 2021 National Amateur and Junior champions were also TSG students. These are not background credentials — they are the direct outcomes of the coaching system that SNIS students in this programme are plugging into. TSG Academy is goal-oriented and razor-sharp in focus, built on structured, personalised coaching designed to transition junior golfers into elite competitive players. For parents of serious junior golfers in Bangalore and across India, this coaching pedigree is the foundation of what makes the SNIS programme credible.

How the Weekly Schedule Works

The programme's logistics are designed to give students the maximum possible training time without compromising academic continuity. Three days per week, SNIS boarders travel from the school campus to TSG Academy for intensive training — totalling 15 hours of golf training per week, and approximately 600 hours annually. The remaining four days are spent at school, focused on academics, with a special curriculum designed to accommodate each student's individual learning needs and dual focus.

Fitness is not separated from golf — it is integral to it. From Monday to Thursday, students complete performance-related fitness training on the SNIS campus, mandated by the TSG Sports Science team. On training days at TSG, students have an additional one to two hours of sport-specific fitness with TSG's experts. This means the programme is not simply about hours on the golf course — it is a holistic athletic development structure that includes strength, conditioning, and performance science built around the demands of competitive junior golf.

All students in the programme stay on the SNIS campus for every night of the week, maintaining the social and pastoral consistency of the boarding experience that SNIS is known for. The 60-acre green campus near Hoskote provides the space, boarding infrastructure, and IB academic environment that forms the student's daily home.

What the Programme Is Designed to Achieve

The programme explicitly names three outcomes for student-golfers: the ability to build a career in professional golf, or the ability to pursue college golf in India or abroad, or to complete a world-class IB education that opens any door regardless of golf. These are not mutually exclusive — they are the three branches of the same pathway, and the programme is structured to keep all three viable simultaneously.

The golf training specifically focuses on effective practice and performance training, building the player's performance to be able to transition to the national circuit, and training students in the nuances of being an elite athlete — not just swing mechanics, but the mental, physical, and strategic components of competitive golf. Students also have the opportunity to play competitive rounds with the TSG Academy, which means participation in the same training and competitive environment as the academy's full-time elite junior golfers.

For students with college golf in the United States or other international programmes as an aspiration, the combination of the IB curriculum (which is recognised by all universities in India and abroad) and TSG Academy's coaching record provides a genuinely competitive application profile.

Who the Programme Is For

The SNIS Golf Excellence Programme is structured for three specific types of students: those in Grades 6 to 8 who are already playing golf and want to take their game to the next level alongside a strong academic programme; those who dream of playing golf professionally and need a structured environment to develop that pathway; and those who simply want to continue a serious sporting commitment without compromising their education.

The programme requires students to be enrolled at SNIS as boarders — the residential component is essential to the logistics of the three-day-per-week TSG Academy schedule and the daily fitness sessions on campus. Students who are day scholars are not eligible for this specific programme, though SNIS's broader sports and extracurricular offerings remain available to all.

For Bangalore families and families across India who are looking for the best IB boarding schools in Bangalore for a child who is seriously committed to golf, this programme is — by the school's own accurate description — without direct parallel anywhere in India.

Programme Fee and What Is Included

The SNIS Golf Excellence Programme for Grades 6 to 8 is priced at ₹16,00,000 per annum — an all-inclusive figure that covers high-performance golf training, full IB MYP tuition fees, notebooks, textbooks, school uniform kit, lab and learning resources, co-curricular activities, 420+ hours of multi-sport activity, boarding at SNIS through Grades 6 to 8, food at both SNIS and TSG Academy, and transport between the two campuses.

What is not included: the SNIS refundable security deposit of ₹40,000, field trips involving outstation or overnight stays, external workshops and career fairs, golf equipment and accessories, golf and fitness clothing, and tournament travel outside the academy. The exclusions are clearly documented and practical — the included fee covers the full daily structure of the programme with specificity.

For families considering the programme, a downloadable brochure is available and applications can be submitted directly through SNIS's official website. The school is located at 232/1, Thoranahalli, Byranahalli Post, Near Hoskote, Bangalore, Karnataka — 563130.