A group of golf enthusiasts in central India have come together to bring the sport to the slums of Mumbai, as seen in this heartwarming video.

The game, known as slum golf, uses the back streets in place of golf greens to play on, as well as creating clubs and balls from homemade items to play with.

Reportedly it was invented by a group of caddies from the neighbourhood of Chembur in 2000, as they wanted to play but were not allowed to do so for free.

One of the founders, Suresh Mehboobani, enjoys playing with his six-year-old daughter and has since taken the sport overseas to play in Paris after gaining viral attention online.

Slum golf, a version of the game using homemade clubs and balls, makes use of the cracks and crevices in the Chembur locality of the hustling, bustling city Mumbai for its course and small divots in the ground as its holes. Stemming out of the need for making the sport accessible and free of upper echelon notions, the makeshift game was created in 2000 in Mumbai by Suresh Mehboobani and others who worked as caddies at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club (BPGC) at a time when they were not permitted to play for free.

Last year, their passion for the game took them to Paris, and it may take them to Germany or Hungary next. It has certainly brought them attention from the local and global media. In a cricket-frenzied nation that considers all other sports secondary, Mehboobani hopes that his version of the sport of golf will make it more familiar, especially to his 6-year-old daughter.

Although Mehboobani and his colleagues have found a more traditional locale to play golf, he’s still hopeful that slum golf can be an introductory way into a sport that, as he himself knows, can often be inaccessible.