Archive for October, 2004

A brief history of the development of golf courses in Catalonia

Monday, October 18th, 2004

This article was published in “Catalonia Today” newspaper on the 15th of October, 2004.

Founded in 1914 and designed by Harry S. Colt, Sant Cugat is the oldest golf course in Catalonia and came into being as a way of attracting highly qualified British and American engineers to the area, some of whom were working on the new Barcelona-Sant Cugat railway line. Golf was slow to take on with few courses being built and only then for the more prosperous amongst the community, the most notable being the Real Club El Prat in 1954.

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