47 the Netherlands. It was the 1960s when his son Peter entered the ‘family business’, though he lived the spirit of the times beforehand! “Every year during my school holidays in summer, from 13 onwards, he would take me on site for a month – which I hated, because I wasn’t enjoying myself with my friends,” remembers Peter. “When I was 18, I did a few other things for a while – sang in a band, DJed – then I went to the States for two years to landscape school. That was a lot of fun, but it was also the base of my future career. When I got back from America, I started working with him properly. In 1968, when I was 23, we were building the Golf Club de Campagne in Nîmes, in the south of France, and he gave me the opportunity to design the greens. That was really the first time I designed anything.” Peter and his father worked together for the best part of two decades. Don was, according to his son, a good boss, even if their attitudes to life were not that similar! “My dad was a very serious Englishman – he actually joined the Salvation Army,” Peter says. Peter Harradine, pictured with the construction team at his project in Hyderabad, India, has designed courses across Europe, Africa and Asia in a career that now spans seven decades Photo: Harradine Golf “ I went to the States for two years to landscape school. That was a lot of fun, but it was also the base of my future career”
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