india The Odd Couple

Kelly Blake Moran has designed golf courses in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and now he’s moving into India.

The Blandon, Pennsylvania-based architect has entered into what he calls “an internet marriage” with an Indian entrepreneur, Ashish Vaishnava, and their first offspring will be a nine-hole golf course and a practice center somewhere in northern India. The course will be part of a community whose underground parking lot will be located beneath the golf course.

Construction could start early this year.

Vaishnava, the principal of New Delhi-based AV Golf, reports in his bio that he’s been involved in the construction of three golf courses in India (including Cambay Golf Course, a lighted, executive-length, nine-hole track in Gandhinagar, in the state of Gujarat) and “knows the game and its business like the back of his hand.”

As of late 2010, the partners hadn’t had a face-to-face meeting, but Moran says they’ve developed a good rapport and have also bid on a project with an 18-hole layout.