Our origins

It is well known that the English staff of the train service introduced the practice of golf in Bahía Blanca. Pioneers in this sport they played it near the ports of Galvan and Ingeniero White, in a place known as Loma Paraguaya. Worth mentioning is the fact that these pioneers defied  unbearable weather conditions, salty lands and improvised greens  of macadam.

1939
An enthusiastic group of bahienses seduced by the British golfers’ idea of having a golf course of their own, got down  to work on this project.Thus, a temporary committee led by Don Francisco Berardi, invited a group of a hundred and fifty members of the Bahía Blanca society to donate three hundred pesos each to buy the land for the future golf course.

1940
The Club de golf Palihue was born   on April 12th, date of the first assembly.  Don Leon de Iraeta, its first president, promoted the creation of the Palihue neighbourhood in Bahía Blanca, agreeing all members to buy the hectars where the present golf course is located next to. It owes its name to the Indian word “Pali-hue”, which means stick and place or home, that is to say “the home of the sticks”. The first nine holes were designed on a moor covered by local vegetation: chañares and piquillines, in the middle of stony hills enclosed by the Napostá stream and the railway which gave the course round quite a picturesque frame. The first official competition, named “Copa Los Impacientes”, was on October 14th , 1940, according to the reports of the “La Nueva Provincia“ local paper, and was won by Henry P. Hardcastle. In 1942 the Palihue Cup and the Club Championship were instituted, which are still played nowadays.

The dream of improving the club has always been in the spirit of the different committees that guided its destiny. This spirit boomed in the last decades, due to a coherent and visionary work supported by the remarkable sense of collaboration of all the club members, transforming that rural club into  the so-called "The golf train engine of the south of the Argentine Republic"